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  7 January 20252 min read

  Mystery issue, simple solution - a story about upgrading to Windows 10

  Windows 10 setup failing with 0x8007025D-0x2000c in the SAFE_OS phase. It was not the antivirus, the drive or the drivers — it was one checkbox on the bootable USB drive.

  • Windows
  • Troubleshooting
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  6 May 20201 min read

  Mendeley and Office 2007 - what could go wrong?

  Mendeley's Word plugin renders a '}Bibliography' header and duplicates the bibliography in Office 2007. Office 2007 is not supported — here is the workaround anyway.

  • Windows
  • Microsoft Office
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  15 April 20201 min read

  When fiancé wants to play The Sims 3 on fresh Windows 7

  MSVCP100.dll is missing when The Sims 3 starts on a fresh Windows 7. Which Visual C++ redistributables actually need installing, and in which architecture.

  • Windows
  • Gaming
  • Troubleshooting
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  9 April 20203 min read

  Do you remember that motherboard has CR2032 battery?

  A Dell OptiPlex 990 that would not boot Windows 7 and kept forgetting the time. One dead CR2032 battery, and a SATA mode reset to RAID.

  • Windows
  • Hardware
  • BIOS