May 11th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
If you’ve been using Windows for as long as I have, you have probably run into your share of weird error messages. One that I got recently when trying to delete a file was: Could not find this item. This is no longer located in X. Verify the item’s location and try again. This was [...]
May 10th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
So I encountered a strange problem recently where my mouse pointer/cursor would randomly jump around the screen, making it impossible for me to type anything! I never had this problem before, but once I upgraded my Acer laptop to Windows 7 64-bit, this problem with the cursor flying all over the screen started occurring. Anyway, [...]
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 [...]
October 19th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
I recently ran into a problem where my DVD drive on Windows 7 was missing from the list of devices in My Computer. It was there earlier, but simply disappeared! After doing some research, I found a couple of solutions that worked. Unfortunately, the solutions are different depending on which OS you are running: XP, [...]
October 16th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
With every new edition of Internet Explorer, there are always a new set of problems that one must contend with! IE 9 is a good step forward in that it supports many standards and will make designing web pages much easier, but it does have a few technical problems. Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes flash crashes, [...]
April 1st, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
If you have no restore points on your Windows Vista or 7 computer, then Windows may not be creating the restore points automatically. There are a number of different problems that can cause this. One cause is a lack of sufficient free space on your hard drive to save the System Restore files. To remedy [...]
March 6th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is a DLL file designed to extend the functionality of Internet Explorer. Many BHOs are benign. For example, many useful toolbars are BHOs. However, many BHOs are malicious, containing adware, spyware, viruses and other malware that can compromise the security of your computer. A bad BHO or “browser hijacker” may [...]
February 24th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
Is Windows detecting your USB flash drive as the wrong capacity? For example, a 16GB flash drive showing up as only a couple hundred MBs in Windows? This can happen for several reasons. Most of the time, the recent formatting of a USB flash drive, on another computer, can cause USB flash drives to display [...]
February 23rd, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
These days, it seems like everything “online” requires a password. For websites like PayPal, it’s crucial to have as strong of a password as possible, for obvious reasons. One popular trend that many people have taken to is the use of password generators. Password generators work by randomly generating passwords, consisting of scrambled letters and [...]
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