by Joseph Forbes | Apr 11, 2017 | DATA, Emailed, Technicals, Troubleshooting
If your inbox is suddenly getting filled with emails from “mailer daemon”, here’s what you can do. To be clear, what’s happening is (we’ll go into more detail below): Email has been sent out and the recipient can’t be found (or...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog Entry, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
The Advanced Startup Options menu, available in Windows 10 and Windows 8, is the central fix-it location for the entire operating system. From here you can access Windows diagnostic and repair tools like Reset This PC, System Restore, Command Prompt, Startup Repair,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
Have you ever needed to open your CD or DVD drive (generally referred to as your “optical drive”) but couldn’t? Just your luck, your favorite movie, video game, or music was probably stuck inside. Maybe the laptop’s power died, maybe the drive...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
You might sometimes find yourself with just one internet connection point–a single wired connection for your laptop at the hotel, for example, or your smartphone tethered over USB to your computer. But what if you have other devices that need internet access,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 8, 2017 | Blog Entry, Technical Support, Technicals, Troubleshooting
Make Sure Windows Updates Help, Not Harm, With These Preventative Measures Let me first preface all of the following with this: updates provided by Microsoft rarely cause problems. This includes those pushed out on Patch Tuesday and others made optionally available in...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Troubleshooting
The problem begins with Microsoft’s attempt to update things for Operating Systems (Like Windows 7), to be compatible with the newer Windows Update methods. Since the release of Windows 8 & 10, including the 8.1, and 10 AU updates, Windows 7 has fallen...
