Over the years, one of the biggest issues that I have run across is failure of Windows updates to install properly! I’ve gotten everything from “An update failed to install” to “Error code 0x8007F0EA” when trying to install Windows updates. Before we do anything, there is a free tool out there created by some genius [...]

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Is your sound icon suddenly missing from your Windows Vista system tray!? It was there just a little while ago, but now it’s gone! For some strange reason, many Vista users have to deal with missing volume and network icons on a regular basis! Even after I upgraded to Windows Vista SP1, my volume icon [...]

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Microsoft should have just not released Windows Vista rather than making us bear the pain of trying to use a crappy operating system. Or at least very annoying. Problems I never had in Windows XP now show up all over Vista. One of those annoying problems is the fact that security on Windows Vista is [...]

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I recently had a problem where I opened my Device Manager and found that is was blank! Nothing there! Just plain empty! It was very strange and it took me a while to figure out what the problem was! If your Device Manager is completely blank or empty, then there are two possibilities of why [...]

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You can hide a user account from the Welcome screen in Windows XP, but it requires editing the Windows registry. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do it unless you use a third party application. I’ll explain both ways in this article. Note that when you hide a user account in Windows XP, it’s [...]

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If you’re not careful, it may be possible for hackers to remotely connect to your computer without your knowledge and copy, change, or delete files. If you travel a lot and have to connect to unsecured wireless networks at hotels, airports, etc, you should make sure to beef up the security on your system so [...]

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After installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and rebooting the computer some people get this error: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer)   some of the technical code accompanying the error are: OX0000007E (0XC00007D, 0XF7C6B8EA, 0XF7C6B7F4 – 0XF7CBBYF0. by booting in safe mode you [...]

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Network security is a big concern nowadays, and administrators make every effort to keep the bad guys out of their network, for that reason they block almost every port on their network firewalls, leaving only port 80 and 443 open. Microsoft in improving exchange server and outlook availability makes it possible to connect to a [...]

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For some reason after updating windows XP to SP3 you get a weird error when trying to connect remotely to a remote desktop enabled computer, the error reads: The connection cannot proceed because of Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to. this problem can occur if: 1. The [...]

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Disabling services running on windows XP is very simple, but what about if you want to delete such services, how do you do it? there are two ways of doing it, by using the run command prompt, or the registry, we will do both. To delete a service using the command prompt, click on Start [...]

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