Keep your Windows OS up-to-date to help alleviate potential performance problems

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Do you keep having intermittent performance issues or are worried about having such?  
I’ve been seeing lots of comments and posts on computer helps sites where users have spent hours, days, weeks and often times lost important data, while costing themselves enormous amounts of money all because they weren’t keeping their Windows Operating Systems’s  (OS’s)”up-to-date”, aren’t [...]

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HELP. . . . . ABOUT:BLANK keeps showing up on my browser and doesn’t let me get to web sites. What do I do?

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

About:Blank is one of the most frustrating Browser Hijackers to stay around as long as it has and continue to do damage to systems. If you are hit you will totally be frustrated until you realize you have to do something.  What you see that tells you your system has been hijacked by the About:Blank [...]

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Mini-display port to DVI to HDMI

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Nothing like taking a 13 MacBook or 15 /17 inch MacBook Pro and connecting to a 50” or 60” flat screen!!!  From experience, let me tell you how awesome it is!!!!
Are you one of those that has been trying to piece together cables so that your MacBook or MacBook Pro would work with your HDTV [...]

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Call of Duty 4 hangs on launch

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Name: Albert E.
I purchased Call of Duty 4 off of Valve’s Steam program. The download went smoothly, with the game coming in overnight. The problem that I am having is that CoD4 isn’t opening. I double click the icon and it just says “Preparing to launch Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and hangs there [...]

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HP Pavillion A704W – Powers on, but does not boot

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Name: Michelle Terral
HP Pavillion a704w when turned on fans come on but will not boot, no beeps at all what could be the problem?
This is a desktop, was trying to connect it to wireless network with my other computers and it froze when i tried to restart it at first all it did was the [...]

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Cannot download anything from the internet – Security Settings Too High

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Name: Steve Miller
I cant download anything off the internet. for example i am trying to download the expansion for world of warcraft and the computer gives me a little pop up that says that my security settings are too high to download the thing.  same thing with yahoo messanger.  i have deleted my security program [...]

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Windows 98 Stuck in Safe Mode – Defrag errors out

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Name: Mary Helen McEvoy
I have windows 98. My computer is genuine interx86 family 15 model 2 stepping 9 608.0mb ram. Fat 32 with more than 31.gb It will not come out of safe mode. I ran scan disk, etc and it says it has corrected [...]

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My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!! – Removal Instructions

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Name: Karthik
Hi,

My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!!
Advise me on its removal..!!
Thanks
Well, I suppose that your request is straightforward enough. Netsky is one of the most common viruses that I would run into back when I was primarily on-site for my customers. Sasser was a close second.
Anyway, first off, if you have not updated your [...]

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