People often ask if they need a UPS or battery backup for their computers. My first response is a question, “do you have a lot of power problems or just 1 or 2 times per year?” If your power goes out often, or the brown-outs go low enough to cause a computer restart then yes, […]
How to build a reliable budget PC with an Intel processor.
This is a warning for Windows 8 users about the “refresh” option. If you are experiencing a problem with a Windows 8 PC, you might end up at a screen that looks like this: Although Microsoft only mentions that you won’t lose your personal data when you choose to “Refresh Your PC”, they do not […]
Free Windows 7 Style Start Menu for Windows 8
After you install Windows Live Mail from Live Essentials and set it as the default email program in Windows 7 you can’t use the scan to email button or feature. Typically you get the error “Failed to send e-mail. Check your mail program settings and try again” or something similar. When you look in the […]
How to fix the popup error message “Revocation information for the security certificate for this site is not available”
Cannot Install Microsoft Security Essentials error code 0x80070005
If you have Windows XP and cannot access a computer by name but you can by IP address then this fix might be for you.
Details on the process of building a brand new personal gaming computer.