You had a virus, drive corruption, or some other OS altering situation. But, being the hero you are, you resolved it and your PC is up and running again. That is, until you try to access the internet or some other network resource. The computer sits there trying to access that web page but nothing is happening… (Much like a … Read more
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 was made available today through Windows update. I saw that there were some concerns on the web on installing the update.People having “issues”. There was one report of a User having to do a system restore after the update completed because the machine became unbootable. But, I’m brave and need to test the update so, … Read more
I love the Vista snipping tool! I use it probably, every other day. But today I needed it and got this error: The Snipping Tool is not working on your computer right now. Restart your computer, and then try again. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator. Very odd. Of course I had about 12 tabs open in FireFox … Read more
I had a customer computer start to die recently and we decided, since it was 8 years old, that rather than fix it we would replace it. So, we got a new PC and I set it up. Everything was a breeze with one exception. The old PC was windows XP Pro had an HP Laserjet 1020 printer attached to … Read more
A week or so back I got to test the Back-up built into Vista Ultimate. Not due to any problems caused by Vista but, because of some Hard drive issues. I was using the on board Intel RAID controller on my ASUS P5W64-WS Pro Motherboard. This thing has been causing a little trouble for a while. So, hoping it would … Read more
The Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) service is a pretty good feature of Windows Vista. Windows XP offered a similar feature in a “Previous Versions” client that needed to be installed by the user. This allowed users to take advantage of the backups that had been deployed. Vista's Shadow copy is on by default for the “system” drive and is “built-in”. … Read more
The Toshiba A305-S6843 Laptop Recently I decided it was time to replace my laptop. My old Laptop was a Toshiba 4300 series. The laptop came originally installed with Windows 98SE, 800mhz PIII processor, 16 gig hard drive, DVD rom, 128 meg RAM. When I got this laptop originally it was “The stuff” so to speak. When Windows XP was released … Read more