Vista Black Screen Of Nothingness

Just spent most of the morning/afternoon trying to get on to my laptop after Vista decided to show a black screen with just the mouse arrow instead of the login screen. Looking round the net it appears to be a common problem with Vista but none of the fixes worked for me.

Eventually I found that the following fixed the problem:
On bootup press F8
Select the Repair option (already highlighted. I missed it to start with thinking it was the heading).
On the program that loads choose the option to restore.
On the list of restore points choose one from a few days earlier when you computer was last working. My last restore point had been created the day before the problem and was created due to a Windows update so assume this must have caused the problem.
Once the restore has finished you should be able to login as normal.

Wimbledon 2008 tennis championships match tracker

It's Wimbledon fortnight from Monday 23rd June to Sunday 6th July so I've added a results tracker to help you keep track of how Federer, Nadal, Murray, Ivanovic, the Williams sisters et al are doing. Due to the number of players in both the Gentleman's & Ladies championships I've split them up into two files. The files contain three sheets, the first 3 rounds for the top and bottom half of the draw are split over two sheets with rounds 4 to the final on the third. All you need to do is add the game scores and the rest will work it's self out. The file can be found at http://www.spreadsheetsdirect.com/examples_wimbledon_2008.html

Euro 2008 update 2

There was a slight problem with some ranges which was giving the wrong results, should now be fixed.

Euro 2008 update

I've added a sweepstake sheet for anyone wanting to run one in their office. Like the Grand National one you just need to print the tickets off, get your entrants to pick their teams, enter their name and team number on the SWEEPSTAKE sheet and the rest will sort itself out. The entry cost and percentage split can be changed as desired.

http://www.spreadsheetsdirect.com/examples_euro_2008.html

Euro 2008

There's only 3 weeks to go to the start of the Euro 2008 football championship in Austria & Switzerland. None of the home nations might have made it but there will be plenty of Premiership players past, present and future on display. To help you keep track of what's happening I've created a spreadsheet which will work out league postions from the scores you enter. Check it out at http://www.spreadsheetsdirect.com/examples.html

Spreadsheet Books from Prontobooks

If any of you are after any spreadsheet books then my mate has recently gone live with his new bookshop site Pronto books. The link below should point you to the spreadsheet books..

http://www.prontobooks.co.uk/Results.aspx?Search=spreadsheets&Format=Books

Lotto checker update 2

I've added a Thunderball checker complete with history checker to the file. Downloadable from http://www.spreadsheetsdirect.com/examples_lotto.html