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Windows 8 wireless Management

August 3, 2013 By Robert Owen

Back when I was setting up my Surface pro, I was trying to quickly move some of my wireless connections to the tablet. There aren't a lot of them but since I didn't remember their passwords,  why not just export them or at least view them from my laptop and copy the settings? Well, the laptop that I was going to take the settings from is Windows 8 also so I thought, this should be super easy, there are some handy ways to do this in windows 7.  Since this is windows 8, those should have been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Support, Surface Tagged With: Control Panel, Previous Versions, profile name, profiles, wireless networks

Speed up File Copy in Vista

January 16, 2008 By Robert Owen

I've been using Vista Ultimate as my primary OS now for nearly a year and, I have to say I'm having VERY FEW problems. Certainly not the horror stories you read all over the web and, really no more than I had with Windows XP Pro. It may have something to do with the machine I built to run Vista. (It gets a 5.4 on the Windows Experience Index) I get no system freezes, no " … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Vista Quest Tagged With: Auto Tuning, Blue Screens, Control Panel, Differential, Differential Compression, Horror Stories, Hp, Hp Color Laserjet 1500l, MicroSoft, Microsoft Windows Vista, Netsh, New Feature, Tuning Auto, Windows Experience, Windows Tuning, Windows Xp, Zip Files, Zip Utility

Computer Locked up?

January 18, 2007 By Robert Owen

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 you were a good boy/girl and actually saved it!?) But what caused it???? When this starts happening, think about what may have changed lately.. Did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: PC-Care, Virus Tagged With: Adaware, Antivirus, Boy Girl, Cheese, Control Panel, Free Online Scan, Good Boy, Housecall, Lt, Memory, New Hardware, Pop Up, Removing Spyware, Shame, Spy Bot, Spyware Removal Tool, Trendmicro, Virus Computer, Virus Scan

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