Saved my B.U.T.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

This is a great tool that saved me. I stupidly formatted the drive that had Ubuntu on it and somehow GRUB got messed up.  I used Unetbootin to create a USB boot drive with Super Grub Disk on it and went through the steps to boot straight to Windows.

No worries.  I plan to go back to Ubuntu, but need to get this machine running Windows for work requirements.

Flush DNS

On a Windows machine (I’m on Windows XP) run the following to flush your DNS cache:

ipconfig /flushdns

Nice to know. At one time I thought you could stop/start a couple of Windows services, but that just causes headaches. :)