With Windows, you never know what crazy error message will one day pop up and scare the heck out of you! One error message that I saw on a client machine recently was: Instruction at 0x000 referenced memory at 0x000. The memory could not be read. Wow! What the heck does that even mean!? Well, […]
I am often asked the question about the difference between a primary and a logical partition. In this post I will do my best to explain the difference between the two. If you open Disk Manager in Windows (Start – type diskmgmt.msc) you will see your drive volumes and their corresponding partition type under the […]
If you work in a corporate environment, you and your computer may be the unsuspecting victim of a terrible piece of software from Symantec called Endpoint Protection. It’s a giant behemoth of a program that includes anti-spyware, anti-virus, network threat detection, and all kinds of other super security crap. I certainly do understand the need […]
Sometimes when troubleshooting Internet connection problems, we seem to try everything: from the most basic (is the cable still connected?) to the most advanced techniques (has someone hacked my router?). However, on occasions, nothing seems to fix the problem until we check some obscure settings that no one would suspect to be causing the frustration. […]
