Help Desk Geek – Help Desk Tips For IT Pros

Probably you have noticed when you buy a new computer these days that they come full of free trial software and programs and most of the time you don’t use them, and probably you never will. Those icons on your desktop make the screen look really clutter and most of all they take a lot [...]

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Since Microsoft issued some updates right after windows Vista came out Files and Settings transfer wizard stopped working correctly on windows XP. Here is the error: The location that you specified does not contain stored information I do not know what might have caused the problem but I do know the solution to get around [...]

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Have you had those virtual memory errors when running certain applications? If you’re using any version of windows, I’m sure you had. Virtual memory is an allocated space on your hard-drive that the system uses like temporary storage to supplement physical memory when there isn’t enough on your system. Increasing virtual memory might help run [...]

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I have an old computer at home that I bought 7 years ago. It is my main computer at home and is the one I’m using to write this document right now and amazingly I have never had any major problems with it like a hard drive failure, etc. It runs pretty fast actually.   [...]

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If you are a techie you know how annoying it is to install software over and over again on the systems you setup everyday. I always tried to find a way how to automate those tasks, so I could have time for myself while the scripts do the work. I tried many scripting programs from [...]

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There are endless tips on the Internet about how to make Windows XP run faster, some are really good technical tips, others just plain bullshit. In this post I want to share the way I optimize windows XP when I get calls from users whining about their computers being slow. The first thing I do [...]

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