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Windows Updates Give Service Not Running or Can’t Download Files

Have had a few clients in that have issue doing Windows updates . Would give an error “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running”. Also some would have issues of downloading anything through the browser. Turns out it was caused by Intel Rapid Storage was corrupted. Reinstalled […]

Unable To Create File Error When Opening Attachment In Outlook

Have a client that scanned a ton of documents into his email. What he got when he tried to open one of the attachments is an error “Unable to create file”.

Search on line and found this thread.

Here is the solution:

Problem: Upon trying to open or preview an attachment (.pdf, .doc, .wav, etc.), […]

Sage 50 Can’t Connect To Database or Can’t Find Connection Manager

Have a client that has 3 PC’s running Sage 50 2013 attached to a Windows 2008r2 server where the Sage data resides. The other day all three were getting mostly Can’t find connection manager. Came across a forum that said the .net framework 4.5 could be causing it. Ran repair on each PC and seems […]

Change Bell Modem/Router Into Just Modem (Bridge-Mode)

Found this on the Internet. You could reflash firmware but I decided to manually change. Here are the instructions: 1. Connect White 2Wire Modem/Wireless Router to phone line, make sure DSL light is on.

2. Connect computer to any LAN port of 2Wire Modem/Wireless Router.

3. Use Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or any […]

Clone Drive On Dual Boot Gives Error

I have a dual boot setup on my 1 PC. I have Windows 7 installed on a 1 TB drive. I then added a second small SSD drive and installed Windows 8.1 on this. This gives me a dual boot option. I can boot into either OS. I decided to upgrade my small […]

Firefox Tip: Add Close button on one Tab

I’m a Firefox user. I like the option of closing the window when there is only one Tab open. You can do a keyboard shortcut of CTRL-W but I prefer the little close X on the Tab. To do this you go into the about:config in Firefox. Look for

browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab

Click on it and change […]

Dropbox vs Google Drive vs OneDrive

Over the years I have tried and use the main syncing utilities to sync files from PC to PC. They are great for what I do and can’t see how to live with out them. I started with Dropbox since its the oldest. There was a product before I use to use till […]

Outlook 2013 Hangs Loading Profile

Have a client that is running Office 2013 on Windows 7 Laptop. Outlook was working fine. Then one day when she tried to open Outlook it would hang on Loading Profile. I can start the Outlook in safe mode (Outlook.exe /safe). So I disabled all add-ons and tried it again and it still […]

Word cannot open because a dialog box is open. Please close the dialog box to continue

I got this message whenever I opened a Word document from Outlook with MS Word 2013 installed. It worked fine if I already had Word open before trying to open the .doc or .docx file from Outlook.

Searched online and found a solution. It basically removes some of the extra security in Word.

Open Word […]

Changing Default For Word 2013 When Have Word 2007 or 2010 Also Installed

Client has an issue that word documents open in Word 2007 rather than 2013. Found this article that fixed the issue.