Category: Networking

IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
  • 13
    Jun

IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

Many of our clients ask us to help with IT disaster recovery plans. This guide explains what a plan is, what it should contain and how to build and test one for a small or medium-sized business. What is an IT disaster recovery plan (DRP)? An IT disaster recovery plan is a documented set of actions to take...

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Troubleshooting a slow network
  • 20
    Apr

Troubleshooting a slow network

We meet clients all the time who have spent several thousand pounds upgrading their old 10/100mbps network switches and routers to newer Gigabit devices and are left scratching their heads when their network speeds seem no different to before. The truth is that a fast network requires more than just a shiny new Comms Cabinet and if you...

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Uninstall Windows 8 and Install Windows 7
  • 16
    Dec

Uninstall Windows 8 and Install Windows 7

1. Make sure you can get windows 7 Drivers Start by opening the device manager in your control panel. It will provide you with a list of all the different devices found on the system, from touchpad and keyboard to networking and Wi-Fi adapters. Don't skip this step, because you can't use the device without a working driver—meaning...

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Making a Norton Ghost Bootable USB Drive
  • 8
    Dec

Making a Norton Ghost Bootable USB Drive

Norton Ghost was discontinued by Symantec some years ago, but plenty of older PCs still have Ghost images and Symantec backups on them, and we still use this method at Lennox IT to recover them. This guide shows how to build a bootable USB recovery drive from the Norton Ghost recovery disk ISO (often called the Symantec Recovery...

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