Shawn's Blog

a hair-band lovin', techni-junkie's banter about… whatever.

Remove old remnants from a downgrade of Vista 64 bit to 32 Bit

I’ve recently had to do a downgrade of a Vista 64 bit machine to Vista 32 bit. Because I have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade, I was only able to do a “Clean” install of Windows, from within Windows itself. Despite what the “Clean” install seems to indicate, the HDD is not formatted, [...]

Boiling an XBOX 360 Game DVD

Recently, I ran into an issue where my XBOX 360 would not read a certain game disc. The disc itself looked pristine – no scratches, or smudges to be seen. All other game discs would read in the 360 with no problems at all. This particular game (LEGO Indiana Jones) had always acted up, and [...]

Fixing a Lexmark E332n that will not pick up paper.

Last year, I wrote an article on “Fixing” a Brother MFC 240C Printer which explained how to bypass the “feature” of that printer which would not allow you to print in black if one of the colour cartridges was short of ink.  To this day, that article is the most popular article on my blog, [...]

“Fixing” a Brother MFC-240C

About a year and a half ago, my wife and I were looking to upgrade our older printer and get rid of some of the clutter on the computer desk. We decided to go with a Brother MFC-240C All-In-One printer which had copier, scanner, fax and printer functions which would be perfect for us, and [...]

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