System Administration
Support the parents with Windows Remote Assistance
No matter what your level of experience is, chances are you’ve been tasked to provide PC support for a friend or family member. If you are lucky, the troubled friend is just down the street, as problems are easier to knock out when you can touch the computer. However, this isn’t always the case and [...]
Windows 7 provides a simple and effective Backup and Restore
We all know we should backup our system and files regularly in order to avoid any disastrous results yet a small minority of us actually do. The cliched saying that they are two types of computer users, those that backup and those that never lost anything is blunt and to the point – it’s only [...]
Keep your drivers fresh with Device Doctor
Microsoft has gotten immensely better at aiding users in keeping their system drivers current. Through Windows Update, Microsoft often pushes out updated video or printer drivers for devices detected on your computer. This one-stop shop is quite handy and chips away at the level of geekery needed to keep a system performing optimally. Unfortunately for [...]
Getting to the bottom of blue screen errors
To be fair, blue screens occur rather infrequent compared to just a few years back. Windows, as a platform, has become quite stable and mature irregardless of the negative opinions that still linger. The reality is, Windows XP melded into a solid operating system – so much so that Microsoft is having a heck of [...]
Eradicate non present storage device information
Windows keeps track of every device that is connected to the system, even when the device hasn’t been seen in months. Every USB thumbdrive is uniquely identified and recorded in the bowels of Windows – the Windows registry. To the user, this is what allows Windows to always assign the same drive letter to an [...]
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