Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
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 [...]
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Image via Wikipedia 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
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Attended my first ECLUG (Eau Claire Linux User Group) today and it was very enjoyable. ECLUG is a group for people in the Eau Claire area that are into Linux and open source. Check out the website for a little more information on the group.: http://eclug.homelinux.org/ There ended up being 9 people at the meeting [...]
I am currently writing this blog on a Windows Vista computer because being a computer store we need to learn the new interface. After a few months of using it I can safely say stay away if you can, as the over all experience for us has not been good.First off lets start with the [...]
We finally have our IPCOP box setup and running as our Firewall / Router. So far it has been working great as it allows us to have a true hardware firewall basically for free. If your not sure what IPCOP is check out: http://ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=IPCopMissionStatement We have also added Update Accelerator to the IPCOP box which [...]