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The dependency service or group failed to start

All of a sudden my windows 7 laptop will not get internet. Look in Network and Sharing Center and am greeted with the message "The dependency service or group failed to start".

Found a few solutions that did not work like altering the registry or the offical microsoft page about restarting the service.

In the end this forum gave the fix:

Type in the following commands in cmd prompt(with admin privileges):

net localgroup administrators localservice /add
net localgroup administrators networkservice /add
exit

Then reboot.

Network system icon disappeared in Vista

First my Volume icon went missing shortly following by Network icon. Going into system icons (right click, properties, notification area) Volume and Network were both greyed out meaning I couldn't active them the normal way.

So... to fix any of the four system icons disappearing two files need to be deleted in regedit:

1. Start, Run, enter "regedit"
2. Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify\
3. then delete "PastIconsStream" and "IconStreams"
4. restart.
5. none-greyed out system icons

Root HTC Desire and upgrade to Android 2.2 (Froyo)

Hi Guys, finally decided to root to get Android 2.2 and this is the simplest way to do it I Found. (everything is free and no extra hardware is needed such as a goldcard)

1. Uninstall HTC Sync and the HTC sync driver if you have them installed. (stops the root, can reinstall afterwards).

2. Download unrevoked (this roots), the 2.2 rom (the android 2.2) and the 2.2 rom radio (goes with the rom).

3. Copy the 2.2 rom (ota22.zip) and the 2.2 rom radio (32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20.zip) to your sd card.

4. Run unrevoked and follow the steps to root.

Google Voice Search Commands for HTC Desire & Nexus One

Was asked previously in another post and its useful to have the possible voice commands in one place, so:

Say “Call,” followed by a name from your contacts, followed by the kind of phone number (“mobile,” “work,” and so on)—for example, “Call Mike home.” If there is a single match, the number is dialed automatically.

Say “Directions to,” followed by an address, name, business name, type of business, or other destination, to get directions to that location from Google Maps.

Say “Navigate to,” followed by an address, name, business name, type of business, or other destination to get spoken, turn-by-turn directions to that destination.

Microsoft Word 2007 – Automaticly Add Heading Numbers

As I put the finishing touches to my dissertation I found it surprisingly difficult to auto generate heading numbers in Word.

So the process is as such:

1. Select the right most listing button, named 'Multilevel List' (just to the right of standard Bullet and Numbering buttons)
2. At the bottom of the popup, select 'Define New Multilevel List...'
3. At the next popup, click the 'More > >' button at the bottom left
4. At the top of the screen the "1.----------" is automatically selected and bold, now select the list 'Link level to style:" and select 'Heading 1'