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Best Anti-Spyware Remover

I deal with spyware on a daily business. There is hardly a PC that I see that does not have spyware installed on their PC. Some are small easy ones to remove but lately I have seen a lot of fake antivirus programs that have infected the […]

Logmein Free Change Remote Type

I have used logmein for a long time. Mostly my sites I control are the free version because all I need is to remote control the PC. A few months ago Logmein had changed their free version and removed some of the stuff I was normally use to. One is the groups are […]

Excel 2007 Slow To Open Files

I googled this and found that sometimes its related to add-ons. The add-on that I believe I was having issues is the Adobe PDF Creator add-on. In order for me to remove the add-on I had to run the Excel 2007 as administrator. To do this go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 folder. Right-click […]

Upgrading XP To Windows 7 At Work

Well I decided to change my 3 year Windows XP installation to Windows 7. My XP was getting very SLOWWWWW!!! The usual bit rot!! I switched from Office 2003 to 2007. Installed the new MS Search. Installing and uninstalling applications. It would take like minutes for it too boot and have Outlook to […]

Extract Offline Files From PC That Won’t Boot

I found this on the Internet to help me retrieve data for a client that needed to restore data worked on a laptop that could not boot that needed to sync the data back to the server: The file needed CSCCMD 1.1 can be downloaded here.

If you’d like to extract the unsynchronized […]

Upgrade To Windows 7

Well I decided to upgrade my Vista Ultimate 64-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. ( I only went with Ultimate because my MAPS included 1 license. If I was going to purchase a license I would go with Windows 7 Pro).Everyone says you really should do a fresh install rather than upgrade. I […]

Windows VS Apple

When I read a review comparing Windows vs OS X I just think of many differences. One of the biggest differences is that Apple is a Hardware company and Microsoft is a Software company. This is has been the way for a long time. Since the beginning of major personal computing. When I […]

NTBackup Gives BSOD (BAD_POOL_HEADER) On Shadow Copy

I recently Imaged a drive for a client using Acronis Home Backup Software and after this when they run the NTBackup software it would give a BSOD. I found the following on the Internet:

Cloned system disk ntbackup now BSOD if using shadow copy

Gary Newman found the following fix — and it works for […]

Can’t Print to XP PC From Vista PC

On Vista PC go to “Control Panel” – “Printers” – “Add printer”. – Believe or not, click “Add a local printer” (I know you want to add a network printer but that way it doesn’t work). – Click “Create a new port” – “Local Port” – “Next” – In the next box you have to […]