Windows Update Nightmare
Here’s a story of an unsolved mystery. If your computer goes into a lockup mode – no response to starting programs shortly after you start it up, chances are you are one of the victims of the Microsoft...
View ArticleAn Interesting Vista Update phenomenon
After a clean system restore on a Vista computer I proceeded to get it up-to-date with the patches. First it seemed to go but when the computer restarted most of the updates failed to install. The...
View ArticleWhat Is A System Backup And Why It Is Vital
I’ve run into numerous cases when hard drive crash, system corruption, virus damage made it necessary to reinstall the whole system. It’s always a painstaking and slow process. It’s a rare thing that...
View ArticleWireless Printers
I just got a couple of questions about setting up a wireless printer. This reminded me to write an article about it because there are couple of misconceptions in this subject that worth clearing up....
View ArticleWhat does it mean when your computer doesn’t start and you get a message...
In a nutshell it means data corruption. Now, it usually instructs you to use the Windows CD with the repair option – however I have not seen anyone yet who succeeded with that approach. What’s the...
View ArticleThe Sneakiest Virus
Today I encountered the sneakiest virus that I’ve seen in all computers. I’d like to give some information on this virus and how someone get rid of it (it might be too technical for some people). I...
View ArticleWindows XP Update Tricks & Tips
In the course of servicing about over 1,000 computers I’ve run into bugs with Windows Update quite a few times. Vista is better in this respect, besides one really odd case I didn’t have much trouble...
View ArticleAn Advanced Tool to Combat Unwanted Software
We had the fair share of cleaning up computers in the recent epidemic of fake antiviruses. Along with these fake security software came a host of actual viruses and rootkits (Click here for a...
View ArticleNetwork Printers and McAffee Firewall
Last week I had two occasions where clients had problem printing. Both of them had a network printer and they had McAffee on their computers. Both cases adjusting the McAffee Firewall fixed the issue....
View ArticleWireless Odds and Ends
I have had a good share of dealing with Wireless networks both setting them up and troubleshooting them. I’d just like to share some pieces of information that I managed to pick up along the way. The...
View ArticleFix NTFS Permission Problems
This article is for advanced computer users. Therefore I won’t explain, in details, the technical terms. In the course of working with a large number of machines I’ve run into restrictive permissions...
View ArticleCritique of Internet Explorer
Today, after dealing with two Internet Explorer oddities, I decided to write down my thought on Internet Explorer. Mainly to voice some frustration and hopefully convince some people to switch from it....
View ArticleAvg 2011 Install Error 0xc0070643
The new AVG 2011 (aka version 10.0) seems to be a pretty solid program and has less install issues than previous versions. However, so far I ran into two cases when the install failed with the above...
View ArticleFirefox 4 Released: Major Bug with Google Apps
I was excited to see that the final version of Firefox 4 was released. I liked the user interface, giving more space for the web content and its speed. I decided to switch on my main work computer to...
View ArticleMy Fix for Windows Update Error 80070011
This error message means that the Windows update couldn’t rename/move some files as part of the update process. As it turns out it is most frequently happens because of redirection of folders by way of...
View ArticleSoftware That I Use
The amount of Software available for Windows is staggering. Sometime it can be hard to find the right one when needed. I found it very useful to check out what other professionals use (eg from...
View ArticleFlash Player Updater Disappeared From Ninite
I use Ninite.com quite frequently. It saves a ton of time with its automated installers. It used to have Flash player on it but today, to my surprise, it disappeared from all of their menus and even...
View ArticleBlue Screen When Booting Into Safe Mode – AVG Might Be The Culprit!
Today I ran into the third case of computers that were not able to start up in safe mode and the reason was a faulty AVG driver. This confirms for me that there’s definitely a bug. The computers I...
View ArticleBeware of Sony Laptops!
I just had a very unpleasant experience with a Sony laptop and this is not the first one so I thought it would worth warning people about the un-user-friendly attitude of Sony laptops. The laptop in...
View ArticlePowerliks: A new type of virus
I just finished a several hours “battle” with a computer that had the above virus. It is a new type of virus and it has not been detected by any antivirus I have used in the past. This article is...
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