Tech Tips, Tricks and Guides
Limit Bandwidth on a Netgear Wireless Router
Jul 13th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
There's a handy built-in feature
Download High Resolution Book Cover Art
Jul 7th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Jazz up your e-reading experience
Cleanup the WinSxS Folder in Windows 7/8/10
Jul 6th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
A great way to save lots of space
MP3 Album Art Not Showing in Windows Explorer?
Here's a few different ways you can fix it
I have a lot of music on my computer and even though I don’t use it as my primary media player or organizer, it’s nice to have it work properly […]
Fix COM Surrogate has stopped working in Windows 7
Error comes up only when searching videos or pictures
A client of mine started having a strange problem when browsing pictures and videos on his Windows 7 PC: it would popup with the following error message: COM Surrogate has […]
Tab Key Not Working in Windows 7
This is a software issue - here's how to fix it
Having problems with your tab key in Windows 7? I know I am! My desktop machine runs Windows 7 64-bit and has been working fine for a months until a […]
Join Windows 7 HomeGroup from Windows 8
Useful if some of your computers are still stuck on Win 7
So now that Windows 8 is coming out, you’ll be happy to know you can join it to your existing Windows 7 homegroup if you like. Windows 7 introduced the […]
Fix Word Opens in Safe Mode Only
Several solutions to this perplexing problem
I installed Office on my Windows machine a long time ago and everything was working fine until today. I tried to open a Word document from my desktop and for […]
Fix “Windows Anytime Upgrade was not successful” Error
There's a very specific reason for this problem
One of my clients ran into a problem when they were trying to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Professional using the Windows Anytime Upgrade tool. Instead of it […]
No Sound or Audio in VMWare Fusion Windows 7/XP Machine?
We fiddled around and finally got it to work
I’ve been messing around with Windows 7 in a virtual machine for quite a while now and I recently installed a new copy, but ran into one problem. For some […]
VMWare Fusion BIOS Setup Loads Too Fast?
Follow these instructions and it will be fixed in no time
I have Windows 7 installed on my Mac using VMWare Fusion and today I needed to get into the BIOS in order to change the boot order for my VM. […]
Can’t Open Hyperlinks in Outlook?
It's because you uninstalled Google Chrome
I recently ran into a very annoying problem while using Outlook on my computer. When I tried to click on a link, I ended up getting the following message: This […]
Configure Ubuntu to Not Dim or Turn Off An Inactive Display
Annoying when it dims during YouTube videos
It’s typically good practice for computer users to have their displays set to turn off after a certain period of inactivity. It’s good for a couple reasons. People passing by […]
Fix “Your PC’s CPU isn’t compatible with Windows 8/10” Error
Be able to install it on these machines
I’ve installed Windows 8/Windows 10 on a couple of machines lately to play around with it and it has installed without a problem on all machines except one. On an […]
Change Downloads Folder Location in Google Chrome
A good idea when you run out of space
Here’s a quick post for those looking to change the location of the downloads folder in Google Chrome. You may want to do this for many different reasons, but for […]
Unable to Pin Programs to Taskbar in Windows 7?
You may have accidentally deleted something
So I ran into an interesting problem the other day when I tried to pin a program to the Windows 7 taskbar. Usually, I just right-click on the open application […]
Uninstall and Reinstall IE in Windows 7
Sometimes it's the wisest thing to do
Internet Explorer was recently having some strange issues on my Windows 7 machine and instead of spending hours trying to figure out what was causing the problem, I decided I […]
Force Windows 7 to Use Wired Connection over Wireless
You would think it would do it automatically
So here’s an interesting situation I ran into when using Windows 7 connected to both my Ethernet network and my wireless network at home: whenever I would transfer data between […]
How to Trace Dependents in Excel
Find out which cell values are connected
If you work with formulas a lot in Excel, you know that the value of a single cell can be used in a formula in many different cells. In fact, […]
Windows 7 Screensaver and Power Options Not Working?
It could be because of several different things
I’ve had my share of problems with Windows 7, but I still use it regularly along with my MacBook Pro. One new problem that creeped up recently has to do […]