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6 Reasons The Guy Who’s Fixing Your Computer Hates You
Found this on cracked.com by John Cheese, very entertaining, but also why I stay in business… Have a great day everyone. Don’t ask me how to make your 10 year old PC run faster “I just bought this...
View ArticleComputer Repair Tools from the Kitchen
I found this article written by Doug Smith, and I thought it was worth sharing… The original article can be found here www.smithrus.com I was doing some repair work on a laptop computer today and...
View ArticleTurn off IE preview in Windows 7
If you are using Internet Explorer and Windows 7, you may have noticed that when you mouse over an IE browser window, a preview of the open tabs in the browser is shown. While this is useful to give...
View ArticleItunes resource hog | AppleMobileDeviceService.exe high cpu utilization
After the recent iTunes update (10.5) a client called because their computer seemed extremely slow. When I arrived on site, I noticed AppleMobileDeviceService.exe was using 50% of the CPU and iTunes...
View ArticleEasily remove United States of America from Outlook Contacts
Hello world, another find…. Yesterday I had a client, ask me how to remove United States of America from his outlook contacts. It appears the iPhone or blackberry had added United States of America...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control could not be installed
When starting the Remote Desktop Web Connection window after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3, the following error may occur: Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control could not be installed. A...
View ArticleDisable Private Browsing in Firefox
I really love Firefox, but was looking for way to disable the private browsing for one of my clients. I found a few work arounds but this appears to be the best option out there. It is just an addon,...
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CD\DVD Drive Stopped Working
A interesting one today, a clients CD\DVD Drive had stopped working, so they went out and purchased a new drive. When they installed the new drive, the computer recognized it, but would not allow you...
View ArticleClean Out Your Computer Day – 2nd Monday in February
In 1956, the hard drive in IBM’s RAMAC 305 computer system was as big as two refrigerators and had the capacity to hold a whopping 5 Mega-Bytes (MB) of data. Today, some cameras will take pictures that...
View ArticleWindows 7 or Vista – a temporary profile was loaded
Have had this several times where a user logs in to their computer and it loads a temporary profile. The next time they login everything is missing. It is missing because everything they did, was...
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Can you reinstall Office 2013 on your new PC?
Can you reinstall Office 2013 on your new PC? Don’t expect a simple answer from Microsoft. In the push to shift customers to the Office 365 subscription model, Microsoft has rejigged the licensing...
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Six tips to Speed up and Clean your PC
This was blog posting was inspired by a great article by Bob Al-Greene on Mashable. Most of it is word for word, but I have added a 6th item that was not in the original article Our computers rarely...
View ArticleFixed: Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer. Error 2:...
When attempting to print or access printers all of them were missing. Trying to start print spooler from services.msc and get the following error ”Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local...
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How to fire your IT manager
If your concern about the amount of work your IT manager is doing, and are afraid he is not protecting your network, you should get an IT audit. Many computer repair firms will offer a free IT audit to...
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How To Build A Tin Can Wireless Router WiFi Antenna
for 802.11(b or g) Wireless Networks or other 2.4GHz Applications click on image to enlarge Got no dough for a commercial WiFi antenna? Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your...
View ArticleUnable to install driver for DM510 | Low Level Driver not found
When I got to my customers the other day they were getting a “low level driver not found error, when trying to use Xerox One Touch software with a Documate 510. The scanner was not functioning, so I...
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Malwarebytes anti-rootkit
Another great free tool from Malwarebytes. This anti-rootkit has really helped me out the last couple of days. I hope it does the same for you. Download it here...
View ArticleStart button coming back with Windows “Blue” Update
“Windows 8 sucks” a complaint that I hear frequently from my clients. Okay, so it is not a complaint as much as it is a statement. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft changed the OS so much that...
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How to remove the ICE virus – HiJackWare
One of my clients got this ICE virus on their computer and while there were plenty of answers out there on how to get rid of it, none of them worked for me. The first major problem I had was that I...
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