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Trying to run up my windows project using Xamarin for windows phone 8. Kept getting this error when the windows phone 8.1 emulator “Failed to start the virtual machine because one of the Hyper-V components is not running” Researched a bit and had a few goes and quite a few different solutions but had to manually edit .vmx file which… Continue reading Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 under VMWare Fusion 7 on a Mac
My laptop was corrupted and decided to move to another laptop at work. I had existing checkouts so I copied all the code involved to the new laptop. Then I couldn’t add the workspace with the same name as it kept saying the workspace exists on my old machine. I looked around at posts on the internet and they were… Continue reading Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)
Zotac ION-ITX-F Originally uploaded by paulfarrow After putting a power meter on my home entertainment system realised that my equipment was using a lot of power 350 watts at peak. So thought I would do some investigation into a recent low power mini-itx board from Zotac. I chose this one because it was dual core and it has a pci-express… Continue reading Zotac ION-ITX-F Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz Atom N330 Mini-ITX Motherboard with PCI Express x16 With Windows 7 Home Premium
Since upgrading to firefox 3.5, I couldnt login any more to my wordpress (currently 2.7) blog. It was wierd as I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on my apple running OS-X 10.5 and I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on Vista. But I could login on my clients machine running firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. What seemed to be the… Continue reading Firefox 3.5 and WordPress – Cant Login
My last upgrade of my media center included a blu-ray media player, it was a cheap LG player although wasn’t as cheap as they are today. This was bought a few years back when they first came out but didn’t install it for some time until now. Well I thought Vista was bound to support blu-ray and didnt think anything… Continue reading Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's
Just upgraded my media center case to an Antec Fusion Remote. Now its a very well made case and has 120mm fans in them with variable speed control which is why it took my fancy. It has full size slots as well as my older case could only take half height cards which is always a problem finding them. I… Continue reading Antec Fusion Remote HTPC Case – Audio Control Doesnt Work
After taking the Cypress update my front usb ports stopped working. How did I fix it well if you go to the device manager (right click the computer icon in file explorer, click properties then click device manager [left hand side]) under Universal Serial Bus Controllers (right at the bottom) there is a device shown now called HX2LP kit (3.03.0000.2)… Continue reading Front USB Ports not working on my Shuttle running Vista x64 Ultimate