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Was there any backups made before the upgrade was done as I believe ( not 100% sure ) that you could use SQL Lite or something of that nature to read text messages / notes etc from backups that iTunes has already made ? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4474939 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5055694 Processing iPhone Backup Files How to recover your iPad or iPhone notes from your Mac A few links found via google, not sure how much help / use they are Failing that if its a mac computer you can use the connect to / browse to folder to mount the storage area of the ipad / iphone May be able to use device manager -> disk management to do something similar Apps etc if the iPad was connected to the computer ( whether mac or windows ) that they use it with ( presumably ) then it should make a copy / backup of the apps inside the apps directory which I believe is generally within the iTunes directory --> Apps or Applications , I think for my iPhone it places them in Mobile Applications.

Aria : NVIDIA Graphics Cards, GPU, Nvidia GeForce, Nvidia Quadro, Tesla - Aria Technology Failing that I normally use google products to find things like this and normally finds reasonable companies who sell the same item for cheaper. ( Google Shopping ) If you can afford a little bit more there is this GTX 760 ( I think Amazon has this card slightly cheaper ) : MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + 1 FREE GAME! - Aria PC

With this being an XP Machine, presume they are on SP 3 ?

When I first started using Apple Macs and I enjoyed using expose and the other functions that OS X provided that windows does not via the F Keys ie F3 etc and being on a windows machine and go to press the Key and it doesn't do anything and then realise I'm not on an apple mac, doh ! * Face Palm * Only other thing I've done is when I am trying to work on multiple laptops etc and have a USB Mouse connected to my laptop and other laptops near me and I try to do something on the other laptops and use my mouse and wonder why the mouse cursor on which ever other laptop is not moving and then about 10 seconds later I click and realise it's due to my own user error and that it's the mouse for my work laptop.

Any chance of a photo of the BSOD, if it reboots straight away etc and you don't have enough time to take a photo then if you keep pressing F8 ( as though you are going to boot into safe mode ) and one of the options should allow you to disable automatic reboot Which should stop it from restarting and allow you to take a photo of the BSOD

Sounds good - be good to know what the fuss about TressFX is about as well

I presume they mean did you extract the drivers out of the setup file regardless of it being an exe / msi or whatever and then going through device manager so you only install the driver and not any additional gumph or did you right click on the installer to run it with admin rights and when going through the setup wizard did you just get it to install everything under the sun or a custom install to only install certain items etc

Possibly the service. Not sure what the msconfig boot thing does

Link would be good - good to know how to do that

What was that about the Bermuda triangle lol

Deploy Studio and WinClone ( Using DeployStudio and Winclone Pro to Image a Lab of Dual-Boot Macs ) Casper and WinClone ( Using JAMF Casper Suite and Winclone Pro to Image a Lab of Dual-Boot Macs ) Older guide for OS X 10.5 + and Win XP ( Dual boot cloning for Macs with Boot Camp | LikeableBias )

It makes me think of ( Goodfellas, Law and Order, The Sopranos ) where they say something along the lines of Bada bing, Bada boom What is "Bada Bing"? What does it mean and where does it come from? I am English and confused!!? - Yahoo UK & Ireland Answers

When I do have money I try to if possible buy from Aria PC - Computer Hardware, Components, Monitors.. at lowest prices I've had bad experiences with both ebuyer and scan so try to if posisble avoid them, novatech were great and got the items to me extremely fast and in working order although did cost a little bit more but I suppose worth it, not had to call them for support etc so not sure how they rate on the support front Never ordered anything from ocUK but from your comment think I will avoid them as well

Complain and they dont have your pc with the same config so if it shows up as working they wont come across the same issues. Surely you can swap for an nvidia card of a similar value ?

PM Sent but basically from looking at google thus far 1. Use relevant utils to diagnose your computers RAM so full diags not the quick tests ( each stick one at a time if required ) 2. Remove SPTD drivers ( which generally come with cd / dvd burning type tools ie Alcohol 120% ) 3. Try either latest drivers for the AMD / ATI GFX Card or possibly slightly earlier drivers ( so not the latest and not beta ) 4. Possibly try the msconfig / boot work around All links included in the PM If its still the same then I would RMA the card and swap it for an NVidia if possible? Be good to know what things you have already tried / done - so we are not re-suggesting you to do things you have already done / tried and know have failed etc

It's bing bing, init mate !!! Bing and the carp is gone !!!

ok just seen the above and pm sent - but THANKS @VeryPC ( Al ) Mug is awesome !!!

Where are you looking at getting the GTX 770 from for £230?

Possibly look better from a distance ................... Only Kidding !!

My Script thus far ( which I have named version 3.6 ), not tested it between Dell and or Lenovo's 100% but think it works ok const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8 strComputer = "." Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut Dim username, asset, hdd, manuhdd Dim colIPResults, objFile, objFSO, objNIC, objWMI, objWSHNetwork, strAddresses, strIPAddress, strWQL, strComp, osVer Dim strRAM dim filesys, filetxt dim newfolder Dim usbPath Dim spVer Dim strSerial, strModel, strVendor, strNumModel Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network") Set filesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") username = objNetwork.username strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName usbPath = Replace(WScript.ScriptFullName, WScript.ScriptName, "") Sub DestroyObjects() If IsObject(objWMI) Then Set objWMI = Nothing If IsObject(objWSHNetwork) Then Set objWSHNetwork = Nothing End Sub Dim strMAC Set objWSHNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set objWMI = GetObject("WinMGMTS:root\cimv2") strWQL = "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE IPEnabled = 'True'" Set colIPResults = objWMI.ExecQuery(strWQL) For Each objNIC In colIPResults For Each strIPAddress in objNIC.IPAddress If strAddresses = "" Then strAddresses = strIPAddress Else strAddresses = strAddresses End If Next strMAC = objNIC.MACAddress Next 'IPAddress 'Set objWMIService = GetObject("WinMGMTS:root\cimv2") 'Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Where IPEnabled=True",,48) 'For Each objItem in colItems ' strMAC = objItem.MACAddress 'Next If strAddresses ="0.0.0.0" Or strAddresses ="" or strAddresses = "undefined" Then strAddresses = "No Connection Detected or invalid ip address" Else strAddresses = strAddresses End If DestroyObjects() 'Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 'Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem",,48) 'For Each Item In colItems 'manu = Item.Manufacturer ' model = Item.Model 'Next Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystemProduct",,48) For Each objItem in colItems Select Case objItem.Vendor Case "Dell Inc.": strSerial = objItem.IdentifyingNumber strModel = objItem.Name strVendor = objItem.Vendor strNumModel = objItem.Version If strNumModel = "" Or IsNull(strNumModel)=true Then strNumModel = "N/A" End If Case "LENOVO": strSerial = objItem.IdentifyingNumber strNumModel = objItem.Name strVendor = objItem.Vendor strModel = objItem.Version End Select Next Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly) totalMemory = 0 For Each item In colItems totalMemory = totalMemory + item.Capacity / (1024^2) Next strRam = FormatNumber((totalMemory / 1024), 2) & " Gb" 'Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS") 'For Each objItem in colItems ' serial = objItem.SerialNumber 'Next Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure") For Each objItem in colItems If Len(objItem.SMBIOSAssetTag) <= 0 Then asset = "N/A" Else asset = objItem.SMBIOSAssetTag End If Next Set objRegistry = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv") strKeyPath = "HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0" strValue = "ProcessorNameString" objRegistry.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strValue,strScriptStatus Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colDisks = objWMIService.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_DiskDrive where Name like '%PHYSICALDRIVE0%'") For Each objDisk in colDisks hdd = ConvertSize(objDisk.Size) manuhdd = Int(objDisk.Size /(1000000000)) & " GB" Next Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set QueryWMI = oWMI.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each oItem In QueryWMI spVer = oItem.Caption & " with Service Pack " & oItem.ServicePackMajorVersion osVer = oItem.Version Next Set filetxt = filesys.OpenTextFile(usbPath & "\" & ucase(username) & " - " & Trim(strComputer) & ".htm" , 2, True) 'filetxt.WriteLine "Username,Manufacturer,Serial Number,Model,Computer Name,RAM,HDD,Asset Tag,Processor" 'filetxt.WriteLine ucase(username) & "," & manu & "," & serial & "," & model & "," & strComputer & "," & strRAM & "," & hdd & "( " & manuhdd & " )" & "," & asset & "," & strScriptStatus filetxt.WriteLine "Computer Spec for : " & strComputer & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Username :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & ucase(username) & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Operating System & Service Pack Level :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & spVer & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Operating System Version :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & osVer & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Manufacturer :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strVendor & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Serial Number :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strSerial & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Numerical Model :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strNumModel & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Model Name :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strModel & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Computer Name :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strComputer & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "I.P Address :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strAddresses & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" 'filetxt.WriteLine "" 'filetxt.WriteLine "MAC Address :" 'filetxt.WriteLine "" & strMAC & "" 'filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Total RAM :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strRAM & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Actual HDD Capacity :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & HDD & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Manufacturer HDD Capacity :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & manuhdd & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Asset Tag :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & asset & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "Processor :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & Trim(strScriptStatus) & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "A.D Description :" filetxt.WriteLine "" & ProperCase(username) & space(1) & strModel & space(1) & "(" & strSerial & ")" & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine " " filetxt.WriteLine "===========================================================" Dim ObjExec Dim strFromProc Dim strOutput 'output.innerhtml = "" Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set ObjExec = objShell.Exec("%comspec% /c ipconfig /all 2>&1") Do strFromProc = ObjExec.StdOut.ReadLine() strOutput = strOutput & strFromProc & " " Loop While Not ObjExec.Stdout.atEndOfStream filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.WriteLine "" & strOutput & "" filetxt.WriteLine "" filetxt.Close msgbox ucase(username) & vbcrlf & spVer & vbcrlf & osVer & vbcrlf & strVendor & vbcrlf & strModel & " ( " & strNumModel & " ) " & vbcrlf & strSerial & vbcrlf & asset & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & strComputer & vbcrlf & strAddresses & vbcrlf & strScriptStatus & vbcrlf & strRAM & vbcrlf & hdd & "( " & manuhdd & " )" & vbcrlf & ProperCase(username) & space(2) & strModel & space(2) & "(" & strSerial & ")" wscript.sleep 1000 Function ConvertSize(Size) Do While InStr(Size,",") 'Remove commas from size CommaLocate = InStr(Size,",") Size = Mid(Size,1,CommaLocate - 1) & _ Mid(Size,CommaLocate + 1,Len(Size) - CommaLocate) Loop Suffix = " Bytes" If Size >= 1024 Then suffix = " KB" If Size >= 1048576 Then suffix = " MB" If Size >= 1073741824 Then suffix = " GB" If Size >= 1099511627776 Then suffix = " TB" Select Case Suffix Case " KB" Size = Round(Size / 1024, 1) Case " MB" Size = Round(Size / 1048576, 1) Case " GB" Size = Round(Size / 1073741824, 1) Case " TB" Size = Round(Size / 1099511627776, 1) End Select ConvertSize = Size & Suffix End Function Function ProperCase(sText) '*** Converts text to proper case e.g. ***' '*** surname = Surname ***' '*** o'connor = O'Connor ***' Dim a, iLen, bSpace, tmpX, tmpFull iLen = Len(sText) For a = 1 To iLen If a <> 1 Then 'just to make sure 1st character is upper and the rest lower' If bSpace = True Then tmpX = UCase(mid(sText,a,1)) bSpace = False Else tmpX=LCase(mid(sText,a,1)) If tmpX = " " Or tmpX = "'" Or tmpX ="." Then bSpace = True End if Else tmpX = UCase(mid(sText,a,1)) End if tmpFull = tmpFull & tmpX Next ProperCase = tmpFull End Function Set objMemory = Nothing Set objWMIService = Nothing

Any chance someone can get me some freebies

Ipconfig /flushdns Try again. Dont you get the option to stop n start dns so it re loads all of it or something like that * shrugs *

Coolio. Ive setup forward and reverse zones and know how to get dns working but not done much else with dns. Good to know

Cowabunga !!!

Would that work for other documents if you used a PDF Writer such as Cute PDF / PDF Creator etc, from another application ( file --> Print --> select the pdf writer ( cute pdf or whatever ) --> save the document as a pdf and then email that to whatever email address to print it off )