Before bringing your computer into a computer shop for repair, here are a few things to consider: If you are not sure about how to plug everything back in when you are able to bring the computer back, take a digital picture and use stickers to label the cables and ports where they plug into. …
Computers can only be expected to last 3-5 years and 5 years is the maximum support life Microsoft gives to their software, plus 5 years extended support for resellers, so in total, the maximum support life for any given computer you can expect is 10 years. Let’s break this down in an example for you. …
As an update to the maximum RAM supported for Windows 7, here’s my updated list I pulled from Microsoft’s website documented below on what the maximum memory is for the various Windows 8 editions. Any 32bit version has a maximum memory of 4GB, but almost all systems you find now will be 64 bit, but …
Goodbye Microsoft Outlook 2010, hello Outlook 2013. Each upgrade seems to have some cool new fetaures and looks but also can be frustrating trying to find things and get it to how you like it. First things I noticed I had to try and turn certain features back on. Here’s a list of the top things …
You may notice as I have, that after updating WordPress to 3.5.1, the option to resize the page/post edit window is no longer under Settings -> Writing as it used to be. There is just no option at all. If you look close enough, as how I figured it out, you can grab the bottom …
Have you noticed your Internet is slower or getting over usage charges from your Internet provider and wondered what is causing your high bandwidth usage? Try out this little program called FREE Meter which is totally free as the name emplies, from Sourceforge.net I’ve used this many times to see how the internet is being used on various …
Lots of news floating around about the security concerns of Java. U.S. Government of Homeland Security says to disable it and discontinue use at once. The problem with Java is it seems to be constantly exploited and computers are getting infected. A patch comes out, assuming you install the patch right away, you are ok. …
A much needed option for troubleshooting issues with Internet Explorer that used to be readily available in Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows, now made unavailable in Windows 8. Unless, ofcourse, you know some coding. Here’s the trick to run Internet Explorer 10 in “no add ons” mode in Windows 8. Open a command …
If your hard drive is full and wondering where all the large files are on your computers hard drive, there is a program that makes it very easy to narrow down. Disk usage analyzer by Extensoft is pretty awesome. Best of all, it’s free! Once you launch the program, it starts scanning your entire hard …
Solution after much searching around and everyone says check IP settings, DNS, WINS, hard code your IP address, run ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns, etc. etc. I tried alot of things and nothing worked. The problem was I could ping my clients server via name and IP address but can’t browse. The error message was: …
