As of April 8th, 2014 Microsoft has officially discontinued support for Windows XP, Office 2003, and Windows Server 2003. These products are all 10 years old which is the absolute maximum life support span for any operating system or piece of software by Microsoft. 5 years support from Microsoft and additional 5 years support for …
Transportation Precautions To prepare the Notebook PC for transport, you should turn it OFF and disconnect all external peripherals to prevent damage to the connectors. The hard disk drive’s head retracts when the power is turned OFF to prevent scratching of the hard disk surface during transport. Power (DC) Input The supplied power adapter converts …
AVG recently released an update that prompts you to install or decline. This is for AVG Safeguard toolbar. If you do not decline this update, it takes over your home page and you can change your homepage back continuously to what it used to be, but after you reboot, it changes right back again to …
What is the maximum PST size for Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, & 2013 Outlook 2003 & 2007 has a default size limit of 20GB Outlook 2010 & 2013 has a default size limit of 50GB There’s a lot more detail about PST size limits and how to modify them on Microsoft’s website with the following KB …
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 …
