Archive for the ‘Q_and_A’ category
Keep your Windows OS up-to-date to help alleviate potential performance problems
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 [...]
HELP. . . . . ABOUT:BLANK keeps showing up on my browser and doesn’t let me get to web sites. What do I do?
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 [...]
Mini-display port to DVI to HDMI
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 [...]
Call of Duty 4 hangs on launch
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 [...]
HP Pavillion A704W – Powers on, but does not boot
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 [...]
Cannot download anything from the internet – Security Settings Too High
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 [...]
Windows 98 Stuck in Safe Mode – Defrag errors out
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 errors, but still will not come out of safe [...]
My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!! – Removal Instructions
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, [...]