Ishida Tech Solutions, Ltd.
The personal and professional home of Brad Ishida

I recently had to reactivate a Windows 7 box due to hardware changes. I was prompted to use the automated phone system and provide my installation ID. However, the system asks for 9 groups of numbers and only 8 were displayed. All the content on the right side of the activation window is cut off. Words are cut off and the 9th group of numbers was completely hidden.

Here is a quick tip to get your installation ID if you can’t view it in the activation window. Run cmd.exe as administrator and type ‘slmgr -dti‘. This will display your entire installation ID in a popup window. When the system gives you numbers to type in to reactivate, the same problem may occur where the input boxes are cut off and out of view. Type the numbers even if you can’t see them and as long as you don’t make a typo, it will accept them and activate.

Welcome to my new site! My name is Brad Ishida and I like tech–a lot. Whether it be business or personal, my life tends to center around technology in one way or another. Creating a site to manage both sides only seems to make sense.

The first order of business for the new site was to create a suitable WordPress theme. My goal is to maintain a high information density for this site, so a minimalist theme seems appropriate. You may notice the lack of graphical components to this design. This is in stark contrast to Programming Art–my other company’s website. I’m sure the theme will continue to evolve, but at this time, I’m really enjoying the fluid layout that should accommodate any browser size and the nearly instant load time.

There are some new words on the About page. Since I went to all the trouble to talk about myself in third person for an entire page, it would be great if you went there now and read it–thanks.

Email? One nice thing about having a new domain name like this one is not having to deal with 1000′s of spam messages every day. Even though SpamAssassin does a fine job at keeping the trash sorted, it’s still a chore to scan for those rare false-positives before deleting 5000 messages at a time. I’m sure the lack of spam is a result of not having any email addresses published on this site to be crawled. So… let’s see how long this holds them off–if you want to contact me, use my last name as the first part of the address and use the domain of this website as the last part.