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Here’s a basic guide to fixing the KitchenPerfected/Lloytron E5602SS spice grinder if it’s stopped working or grinds intermittently. If the grinder works but only when you screw the lid in a specific position, chances are the cheap, low-quality plastic tabs in the lid have snapped, or one of the cheap, low-quality microswitches have failed… again. […]
Older versions of iTunes for Windows (e.g. 10.7.0.21) were great. They had support for a taskbar-embedded player and could minimize to the system tray. They weren’t completely full of bloat and had a simple, usable interface. In newer versions of iTunes, all this changed. The interface was made worse (particularly the display of album art) […]
Recently I had the misfortune of my Cuisinart CEK-50 cordless electric carving knife becoming defective. It was running continuously, even when the trigger wasn’t held down, and wouldn’t stop unless held at a specific angle. As always with cheaply-made plastic consumer crap, the culprit was a 1¢ piece of plastic on a $3 component. Specifically, […]
Many recent articles about the WannaCry ransomware virus report that Microsoft has issued a fix to patch the issue. However, as is typical of today’s poor-quality mainstream journalism, the articles don’t include any links to the patch. So here are the links. Windows 7: Install SP1 first and then use the links below. Windows 7 […]
There are various solutions floating around for the Windows Update error “80070422” (aka 0x80070422) but none of them worked for me. Here’s what worked: Start -> Run -> type services.msc Ensure the following services are all set to “Automatic” startup: Windows Update Windows Firewall Windows Modules Installer Background Intelligent Transfer
Here’s a mirrored copy of the Trillian messenger skin “Trillian Live Messagewindow” by Scream81, originally hosted at http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showthread.php?t=105070. Currently only works with Trillian versions 5.6 and below. I’ll update when/if it’s compatible with v6+. TrillianLiveMessagewindow.zip
The Problem If you’ve recently upgraded Firefox you may be left with lots of unsigned extensions which need to be reinstalled. If you’ve followed our guide to allowing unsigned extensions in Firefox then you’re halfway there; but what if you don’t want to manually re-install every single one of your old or unsigned extensions, one-by-one? […]
The Problem Recently Mozilla made a change to Firefox so that, as of version 48, all extensions (add-ons) must be signed in order to be installed or used. I discovered this after updating from Firefox v40 to v50 and having literally all of my extensions disabled, with the very helpful message “[This extension] could not […]
Firefox has just been upgraded to version 29, and is apparently one step closer to being a clone of Google Chrome. As usual, the update is absolute crap and many users are incredibly angry. So, to downgrade to version 28 of Firefox, just run the full v28 installer which can be found here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/28.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2028.0.exe Oh, […]
Thief 4 (2014) has just come out and already there are a few problems. And solutions. Startup Error 0xc000007b When launching Thief on 64-bit (x64) computers, you might see an error message like: “0xc000007b the application was unable to start correctly”. The solution is: 1. Search within your C:\Windows folder for “D3DCompiler_43.dll” and delete all […]