Software
My hard drive died, now what?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010You turned on your computer this morning, and instead of being greeted by a welcome screen, you are greeted by a message that looks something like ” Windows cannot start, file xyz is missing”. Now what?
Unless your computer is 6+ years old, its probably a no brainer to have your computer repaired.
So you take it [...]
Windows 7 God mode (additional admin options)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010There is a new “trick” in Windows 7 that shows users a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making new hard-drive partitions.
To enable this pseudo hack, create a new folder and then rename it:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Nice huh?
I’m not sure it’s my idea of playing God, but it is a [...]
Vista upgrade doesn’t ask for CD
Thursday, January 7th, 2010A few of our customers who have purchased the Upgrade versions of Windows Vista cannot perform clean install. You are forced to install their previous OS and then upgrade to Vista.
What a time waster.
The problem is because Windows Vista does not check for upgrade compliance. Therefore, you cannot use an upgrade key to perform a [...]
Ready to upgrade to Windows 7?
Friday, September 18th, 2009If you’re looking to upgrade PC to Windows 7, there’s good and bad news. Here are your upgrade options.
Pre XP to Windows 7
Don’t even think about it. You will be much better off with a new install.
XP to Windows 7
You can purchase an “upgrade” version of Windows 7. You will have to do a fresh [...]
Vista and the new KSOD (black screen of death)
Friday, June 5th, 2009BSOD is already taken so the tech industry has named this frequent VISTA problem the ksod.
This is what happens, you reboot and you get a black screen with only a mouse cursor. No CTRL + ALT + DEL, no nothing.
As of this moment there are no definitive fixes, i personally spent over 6 hours trying [...]
Make your own .mp3’s for ipods and other mp3 players
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009There are so many options out there for mp3 players theses days. If you are asking, what the blip is MP3, then go here and read up. The ipod is probably the most popular mp3 player, but there are many others. So you have tons of old music you want to listen to on your [...]
Vista, Xp, or Windows 7
Saturday, April 25th, 2009As some of you may of heard the next new kid on the block is going to be windows 7……So it looks like maybe Microsoft realized that Vista is not the wave of the future. I run vista on some of our production machines and I don’t like it. Not that it doesn’t work, but [...]
Virus Protection
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Had a customer call me the other day it seemed their computer had a Virus on it. Oh no! This lady just purchased a copy of Norton 360 ( 4 months or so ago). So in the customers mind they were protected. Norton did catch the Trojan and even said it could not fix it [...]