So you have decided to do a lovely underfloor heating install and have chosen Heatmiser! £1000, two manifolds, two RF wiring centers and 10 thermostats later, your heating doesn’t work properly. Congrats. Here’s a few things to help you along the (confusing) way. I’ll add to this as I find more stupid things with the…
Stopping Windows 10 Update from installing your drivers
So, you have just found a driver that works with your device…. Woohooo! Then Windows Update is here to the rescue…. well… it’s here to update it to the latest version… which no longer works… To stop it, do this! Hit the Windows key and type Control Panel, click on the top result…
Samsung Galaxy S8 – Close to stock/AOSP as possible. Now in 5 easy steps! (kinda)
So the big question. Without a Lineage OS rom, how do you get your shiny new Samsung Galaxy S8 as close to stock as possible? Here’s what I did. 1. Launcher I personally like to use the Google Now Launcher but of course there are many more launchers to suit everyone’s taste eg Nova…
Removing/Blocking/Skipping adverts on All 4 (4od)
Fed up of skipping through a program and watching 10 minute ad breaks? Maybe you are watching a program, just sat down with a cup of tea and BAM…. 5mins of adverts…. ¬_¬ Hacky way of doing it but pretty easy if you are on a PC. Download an ad-blocker. I’m using uBlock Origin. Disable…
[LR.Team] [ZUK Z2] Unofficial CM13
THIS IS HOW I DID IT, I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILTY IF THIS DOESN’T WORK/ BRICKS YOUR PHONE!!!! IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH ADB/FASTBOOT DO NOT PROCEED!!!! THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE!!!!! THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED NOW, PLEASE HEAD OVER TO THE ZUKFANS.EU SITE FOR AN UPDATED GUIDE WITH LINEAGEOS 14.1 https://zukfans.eu/community/threads/7-1-x-unofficial-lineageos-14-1-20170626.4852/ These…
Sony NEX Japanese/English
Factory reset – Now everything is in Kanji…. sound familiar? Hit the menu button and look for this: ランゲージ Change it to English… EZ.
Linx 10 – Windows 10 Install
You WILL need a USB keyboard for this. Update your Windows 8 install First, use the windows update to update to windows 10. or download this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and run it to upgrade. I had problems with the install sticking at 85%, restarted it and it went through fine. It is recommended that you remove any SD…
Payday 2/Fallout 3 Crashing on startup
So.. Payday 2 works fine on my desktop and not on my laptop, it crashes on startup. No amount of validating files or re installing worked, but this did. My crash logs were talking about a “renderer” thread. No help from the Payday 2 forums so…… 1: Download the following file: http://www.mediafire.com/download/xbop42oorjatx96/d3d9.dll (backup link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Lrwww03sbeazNjckpxTmxiQzQ/view?usp=sharing) 2:…
Windows 10 HP DV6 Graphics Install (HD 5000, HD4000)
Overview: We want to download the original Windows 7 drivers from the HP website and then install them outside of the installer. We will do this because either ATI or HP are incredibly lazy and have not produced a Windows 10 installer. ————————————————————————————————————- First download the latest Crimson software (formerly Catalyst Control Centre) http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/mobile?os=Windows+10+-+64 Install it and…
BT4500 Answerphone Beeping… STOP IT!
So, I got fed up with the incessant beeping that my answerphone was making and figured that the setting to turn it off was quite tucked away in the menus. Here’s how to turn it off. 1. Hit the MENU button 2. Select ANSWER PHONE and hit OK 3. Select ANSWER SETTINGS and hit…