Homelab, retro computing, legacy systems and unusual technical projects.
Since Microsoft deprecated vbscript.dll in October 2023, several installations, including the Epic Installer, have encountered significant issues. Users attempting to install the Epic Installer are frequently met with the error message: “The error code is 2738”. This error is particularly…
Over the years I’ve gathered a lot of videos from various sources. Some of these are uncompressed and take up various gigabytes of space, each! Even though storage is getting cheaper, I don’t really want to spend €200,- (each) for…
Caution: This may cause your system to hang on boot. I must admit, I haven’t done a fresh install of this system since upgrading to Windows 10 1903, moving the NVMe drive from an older laptop to this machine, updating…
In the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s Gericom released various laptop models and was fairly popular in western Europe. These laptops were sold under the brands Gericom (mainly Germany), Advent (mainly in the UK and Ireland) and in Spain…
This happens only when the NAS is connected to domain with multiple domains in the forest and after the upgrade to DSM version 7.1. The default Management Mode setting is “Trusted Domains” with all domains in the forest selected. To…
After playing with Veeam 11 for a bit, I decided to get my Linux Docker physical host on the backup schedule. The hardware is getting older (Some would call it vintage or just plain ancient as it’s a 2nd gen…
Windows 98 Setup Freezes when “Setting up programs on the Start Menu” When installing Windows 98 SE on a Dell Latitude D600, the installation freezes at the point after it finishes “Setting up programs on the Start menu” but before…
Install Drive Easy Free from: Start DriverEasy from “C:\Program Files\Easeware\DriverEasy\DriverEasy.exe”
LeMenu 3.1 is a text-mode menu builder and directory manager from Bartel Software, preserved as a 1988 release for IBM PC-compatible systems running MS-DOS. It replaces repeated drive changes and command typing with configurable keyboard-driven menus, making it a practical…
Sometimes it’s necessary to install an old Operating System, but you really cannot (or don’t want to) get the old hardware out, even if it would still work.I was in such a position that I had to install Windows 2000…
