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 …
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: …
Windows 7 has a great search feature that searches your entire computer for files including in your emails, all at the same time. Sometimes you get too many results in too many locations and you already have an idea where the file maybe located, so you want to narrow down your search results. Here’s how. …
Using Windows 7 and Excel 2010, Excel forces every spreadsheet to open in the same window rather than open in separate windows so you can view both at the same time either on separate monitors, or just split on the same screen side by side. Here’s a very simple solution without having to hack the …
If the computer won’t power on, here’s a simple solution you can check yourself first before taking your computer in for repair. Many power supplies now have a power switch on the back. Normally you turn your computer on using the power switch on the front of the computer, but if there is a power …
Problems installing AVG 2013 upgrade [Solved]. Trying to install AVG 2013 and many people having the same issue. Download and go through the install, almost all the way through until finally gets near the end and gives an error “Driver Installation Failed. Error code 0xC0070643. MSI action failed. Error code 0xE0010057” Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn’t …
Computer repair tip: Hacking into Windows I’ve had to use this method several times to reset various user passwords when someone forgot their password. It’s handy when it’s your kids computer that they have you locked out and you want to see what they are doing (as a concerned parent), or you are an employer …
After hearing enough times about how rebooting fixes a lot, what is the difference between cold booting and warm booting? I’ll explain the answer here. The short answer is, cold boot means turn the computer off then on. Warm boot means to reboot the computer without shutting all the way down. The idea is that when you …
