May 6th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts
With a lot of more modern computers using SSD’s (Solid State Hard Drives), one question I often get asked is if you need to defragment a SSD. That’s a good question because up until now, pretty much everyone has defragged their computer at least once. So why do we defragment a hard drive in the [...]
April 4th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
I’ve worked with a lot of clients and one issue I’ve seen crop up since Windows 7 was first released is random freezing. It doesn’t seem to matter which program you are running, how long Windows has been running or anything else, Windows will just randomly freeze and you have to either kill the computer [...]
April 3rd, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, How-To
So I was rummaging through some junk I had in my garage the other day and I ran into my old beloved, but now completely useless, Asus 1000HE netbook! Wow, that segment vanished just as quickly as it appeared! Anyway, it’s still a decent little computer, so I didn’t want to give it away. It [...]
April 2nd, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, How-To
So you just got your first Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or maybe your twentieth? Whatever the case, most people don’t know how to fix BSOD problems themselves. If you have someone geeky in your family, they might be able to fix it for you, but there are a lot of times when you have [...]
March 31st, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Tools Review
Welcome to the second part of this two-part article about using SafeHouse Explorer to securely store and transport your important, private files. The first part of this article covered installing and running SafeHouse Explorer and creating your first SafeHouse volume. In this part, we discuss creating a portable version of SafeHouse Explorer you can carry [...]
March 30th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Tools Review
We have previously written about creating and using a portable version of the free, open source encryption tool, TrueCrypt. This allows you to create encrypted file stores so you can securely carry around your data on USB flash drives. However, to use the portable version of TrueCrypt, you must have administrator privileges on the computer [...]
March 27th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
Previously, I wrote the Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide for Windows 7 Homegroup Issues, which a lot of people found useful. Today, I am going to write up a ultimate troubleshooting guide for Windows 7 hanging issues. This includes Windows 7 hanging on startup/boot, hanging when logging off, hanging when shutting down, hanging when installing programs, etc. [...]
March 25th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
So here’s an annoying problem I was having recently: I enabled home sharing in iTunes on my MacBook Pro and I connected like normal from my iPad 2 to my shared video library. I was browsing my TV Shows and Movies when I noticed something strange. The same artwork was showing up multiple times! When [...]
March 23rd, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
So Photostream is a great feature of iCloud, but sometimes getting it to work properly can be a major problem. I’ve had several problems with Photostream including it not showing up on my iPad 2 and it disabling itself in iPhoto all the time. These are really annoying problems because the photos have to keep [...]
December 5th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Mobile Tips
Christmas is right around the corner and we’re going to help you find the best tech gadgets currently on the market so you can be showered with praise when someone gets one as a gift! Everybody can use a smartphone, especially the people who don’t want to give up their own flip phones from 10 [...]
MOST COMMENTED
Fix “Windows was unable to find a certificate to log you on to the network”
Share a Printer from XP to Windows 7
99 Ways to Make Your Computer Blazingly Fast
Windows 7 File Search Indexing Options