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ASUS Transformer TF101 RMA Process – A Story of Incompetence
Alrighty folks, as most of you know, I’m pretty easy going. I don’t tend to get on here and rant about a bad experience because I realize that unfortunate things happen and I just tend to roll with it. This is precisely what I did when my brand-new ASUS Transformer TF101 I received as a gift (which [...]
Windows 7 Hosts File Ignored
Windows 7 has easily been the best version of the operating system to date, by far. While Vista came with plenty of quirks, Microsoft seems to have learned from the mistakes made and corrected many of them for their release of 7. Unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and the odd quirk where Windows 7 ignores its [...]
eMachines System Recovery – Restore Windows 7 From The Recovery Partition on a eMachines W6409
From: Betty Subject: Windows 7 Recovery – eMachines W6409 Message: A friend of my daughters accidently erased my Windows 7 from my computer and I don’t have the disc for it! How can I recover it from my computer memory? Shouldn’t it be on my hard drive? Even so, I’m not too well computer savy [...]
Map Windows Live Skydrive in Windows 7
Online storage is all the rage nowadays, with many providers giving you multiple gigabytes of space on their servers for free. Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive is among the best with an excellent user interface, 25GB of storage for free, the ability to upload multiple files at once, and much more. Since all that is required [...]
Isass.exe – Application Error 0xC00000005
Name: Clair Garrett As soon as i turn my PC on I get a box up saying Isass.exe – Application error on the top. Inside the box it says: This application as failed to initalize properly (0XC00000005). ANY ADVICE YOU COULD GIVE ME WOULD BE GRATEFULLY RECIEVED! THANK YOU! ____________________________________ Does the computer finish booting [...]
Verizon Blackberry Tour 9630 keeps rebooting after update to OS 5.0.0.591
Recently I wirelessly updated my Verizon Blackberry Tour to the new OS 5.0.0.591 version that was officially released. The update itself took a considerable amount of time; the setup text suggested that it may take a couple of hours to complete which at the time I figured was a rather extreme estimation. As it turned out, it [...]
Are Motherboards With Integrated Hard Drives The Next Step?
Solid state disks are making a splash. Their gradual decrease in cost is making it finally affordable* for end users to have one in their machine, although this market segment is still generally limited to enthusiasts with high-end rigs (gamers with too much money, media developers, and techies that simply like things fast) that are [...]
HTC’s Touch Pro – The Luxury Car With A Hamster On A Wheel For An Engine
About two months ago I decided to switch wireless phone carriers and get myself a new phone. At the time I was with T-Mobile and had the HTC Dream; known more commonly as the T-Moblie G1. My decision to switch from T-Mobile stemmed mostly from the fact that their coverage in Southern Utah isn’t terribly [...]