Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS_E_BAD_STATE 0×80042301

Last Updated on Sunday, 6 December 2009 03:11 Written by admin Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:11

If you have been racking your brains trying to resolve this error:

ERROR: COM call “m_pVssObject->GatherWriterMetadata(&pAsync)” failed.
- Returned HRESULT = 0×80042301
- Error text: VSS_E_BAD_STATE
- Please re-run VSHADOW.EXE with the /tracing option to get more details

Then read on…

Deleting Photos from the Wii Message board

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:00 Written by admin Monday, 9 April 2007 10:57

Having recently been lucky enough to purchase a Wii, I say lucky enough, because these things are scarcer than hen’s teeth – I had been trying to get one since November 2006.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not a game freak. In fact the last time I seriously played a computer game was way back in the days of DOOM – the original version, and remember nearly falling off my chair with fright when playing the game late at night and being jumped by a pink monster that was hiding behind a trapdoor in a darkened tunnel!

Amazing security strip – NOT!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:01 Written by admin Saturday, 17 February 2007 12:11

Here is an interesting thing.

I got a letter this morning enclosing a security code under an adhesive strip, with instructions to inspect the strip for tampering and to notify them if this was the case. The code was to give me access to a web site and the strip had not been tampered with.