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Windows Mail Backup & Restore Even with no Access to Windows 7 or Vista

With the following steps you will be able to backup your Windows 7 or Vista Windows Mail even if you can not boot into Windows.
What you will need

External Drive Case or USB Drive Connection – This allows you to connect your hard drive from your computer to any other computer.  You can usually get one [...]

[FIX] Add/Remove Applications List Empty Ubuntu Linux 8.10

So suddenly you can no longer add or remove new programs because everything is gone in your Add/Remove applications list?  Same thing happened to me and luckily the fix is quite easy.  It seems that the culprit is an installation of Adobe Air, but don’t worry no need to remove Adobe Air and lose all [...]

(Fix) Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Prints HTML Code not Text & Images

So today we had a customer bring in a laptop running Windows XP that would not print websites correctly using Internet Explorer 7.  Instead of printing the text and images it would print the HTML code that created the webpage.  After digging around in several forums I was able to put together the following solution.

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Backup Outlook Express Emails even if you can’t boot Windows

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Ok so Microsoft definitely does not make it easy to backup Outlook Express when you can boot into Windows so when you can not, well that’s when the following comes in handy.
The first thing you will need to do is hook your hard drive up to another computer or perhaps use BartPE to [...]

Microsoft Windows XP Updates Fail – Fix

Running a computer repair shop you end up running into things much more than most people.  This issue of Microsoft Windows XP Updates failing has bite us a few times but every time this same fix has done it for us.  Many of the other sites give this answer only after a Windows XP repair [...]

Internet Explorer 7 Bug Fix – Cannot Display Menu Bar

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Ran into a very interesting Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 bug today, could not display the menu bar even though we clicked the menu bar option in the tools menu.  After clicking menu bar it put a check next to it in the tool menu meaning that it should have been displayed but it [...]

Slipstreaming Windows with nLite, Windows Updates Downloader, & WMP11 Slipstreamer

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Slipstreaming has become so much easier than it was not to long ago thank to tools such as nLite, Windows Updates Downloader, & WMP11 Slipstreamer.  We have been using this method for quickly reloading desktops and laptops with Windows xp, 2000 and Vista for quite awhile at the shop,  I figured I would [...]

TCTEKS Customer Computer Video on WEAU Technology Spot

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On Fridays episode of WEAU’s Technology Sport is a segment of myself doing a custom computer build , check it out and let me know what you think in the comments: http://tinyurl.com/4akz2a

The future of the seemless Internet & the computer as I see it.

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So I was talking to one of the Clearwire technicians that my company deals with and we discussed a variety of things from the future of internet connection to the future of the computer. One of the biggest things that the computers of the future will need is a non-stop connection to [...]

Do you need an anti-virus even with Linux?

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Most Linux articles I have read and many Linux users that I have talked to seem to think that with Linux you will never need an Anti-virus.  At this time in history that my be true but its only a matter of time, right?.  With most any OS we can look back before [...]