Load DLL’s needed for Kernel – XP

Had a user call reporting their computer shutting off suddenly. On reboot, they received the message “On last operation CPU reported a thermal event” Well.. This told me that the CPU fan had probably choked and the CPU had overheated causing the PC shut down. Upon inspection I found my initial thought was only partially [...]

To Clean? or Not To Clean?!?

This is another post that got lost in the WordPress conversion.
A good friend of mine called me a few weeks back having trouble with his modem….. I know, that title and first line probably remind you of one of those jokes…    A horse, Rabbit, and Turtle went into a bar… Anyway, we had just had a [...]

Online Backups: Mozy

I have to say that my initial impression of Mozy Backup was not that great. Besides the abundance of outgoing bandwidth at my server the initial backup was very slow. I was only sending up a little over 1.5 gig of data and, it took the better part of a day to complete. But, now [...]

Online Back-ups

Well, after great thought and study, I've decided to go with Mozy as my online back-up choice. I've set up the account and have installed the clients. One server and one desktop client. My server has a tremendous amount of bandwidth so, I thought I would do it's initial back-up first.
So far I'm [...]

Online Back-UP Services

I am interested in another layer of back-up for my important files and have considered trying one of the online back-up services.
There seem to be a quite a few out there and most of them offer a free version, paid personal, and business. Anyone have any experience with these???

IDrive-E

free:2GB of storage space absolutely free Option [...]

Vista Ready?!

Ok.. I’m ready. I have a machine built and Vista Ultimate installed. I used the following hardware for this new PC:

ASUS P5W64-WS Professional Motherboard
Intel 2.4 ghz Core2Duo Processor
2 Gig Kingston DDR2 800mhz RAM
ASUS 7900 GS (NVidia) Video adapter
Plextor PX-755SA Dual Layer DVD/CD writer
Two Western Digital 500 gig SATA drives in RAID 1

I chose the ASUS [...]

Computer Locked up?

Everyone’s seen it… You are surfing the web or working on a project for work when…. Everything Freezes up! AAAAARRRRGGGG… (no, this isnt an ad for Geek Squad!).
What caused it? Spyware? Virus? Cheese? It’s really hard to tell. Lots of things can cause the dreaded “Freeze”. After cursing furiously, you reboot and continue your work..(if [...]