Here’s your chance to make a difference … tool up and kill a zombie. What … what are you doing? Put down that baseball bat and chainsaw! I’m not talking the living dead kind of zombie here, I’m talking about the silicon kind that are used by cybercriminals to send spam, distribute malware, and commit identity theft. [...]
You probably found this post because a program you are trying to install is giving you the error “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed”. The issue here is that the registry has been damaged and or the msiexec service is not started properly, most likely a combination of both. How this happened is [...]
Did your Windows XP computer get a bad virus infection, remove the virus and now you can not get an IP address from your router via DHCP? In your system tray (usually bottom right of your screen) do you have two little computers with a ball floating back and forth over them? The issue is [...]
No matter what you do Internet Explorer will not open maximized? It always opens in a small window? If that your problem the below will fix the issue. Most likely the issue is with a misbehaving add-on or “stuck” setting. Now I should mention that resetting Internet Explorer, which is what this does, will reset [...]
So your small preview thumbnail pictures that normally show up have disappeared huh? Well its hard to say why they did so but some how the option to display them was disabled so we simply need to re-enable it to get the thumbnails back. Simply follow the below instructions and you should be sitting pretty: [...]
A customer recently brought in an IBM Thinkpad Model T43 in which the sound was not working. On this model the volume and mute buttons on the unit work independently from Windows. If the volume is all the way up and the mute button is not checked in the sound manager, there still could be [...]
If your print spooler keeps stopping every time you start it hopefully this fix will work for you. I ran into this problem today and after much searching on google I was able to come together with a few solutions as well as the one that ended up working for me. The problem seems to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]