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Are you in the market for a wireless router or a network switch? First, let’s look at what you are really buying. A modern appliance that is marketed as a Wireless Router is typically 3 devices in 1 package. Router – A device that connects 2 or more networks. Wireless Access Point – connects wireless […]
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 […]
In QuickBooks 2008 running on Windows Vista you get an error when you try to print a report. —– The file you specified cannot be opened. Make sure that it is not currently being used by another program or a read-only file. The Windows error was ‘The file exists.’ —– You followed the instructions on […]
Free Windows 7 Style Start Menu for Windows 8
When you try to start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) on Windows XP you get an error 1290: 0x50a. Step 1: Reregister the Qmgr.dll and the Qmgrprxy.dll BITS files. To do this, follow these steps: Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 qmgr.dll, and then click OK two times. Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 […]
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