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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 [...]
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 [...]
How do you access Dell’s recovery partition?
Jeffrey Safford I have a Dell Inspiron 518 running Windows Vista. My kids have managed to get it infected with the virus that poses like a virus scanner – XP Antivirus 2008 (runs as XPAntivirusUpdate.exe and xpa2008.exe). I can’t manage to get this damned thing removed, so I’m just going to have Windows reinstalled. Yeah, the [...]
Back up your data people!!
I’m going to go off on a bit of a rant here, but I feel that it is necessary. Back up your data! You wouldn’t believe the number of requests that I get constantly that go something like this: ” My computer was running fine until last night when an electrical storm hit, now when [...]
How to scan for viruses and spyware – For free!
One of the most common questions I get is how to scan a computer for viruses and spyware if there isn’t an up-to-date antivirus package installed. As most of you know by now an out of date antivirus program is all but useless. Almost exclusively, I use McAfee’s SuperDAT scanner to clean up systems that [...]
Vista Beta 5384 Install Error Code 80070241
An interesting thing happened to me over this weekend. I got an invite to join the Windows Vista Beta program, and obviously jumped at the opportunity. I went to their site, gave my .NET passport and was given a link to download the x86 or x64 versions of Vista (In quite a few languages actually) [...]
This copy of Windows is not genuine – how to fix
Microsoft, in a rather brilliant move, has released an update that checks your OS serial against a list of known leaked serials (corporate edition keys, etc). If your serial matches one of them then it puts a darling little message on the bottom right hand of your login screen, and also a system tray icon [...]