Ever had a problem where Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 would have an internal problem, flash an error message at you, and immediately reboot while you were trying to figure out what happened? One of the default settings in Windows is responsible for that automatic reboot. Fortunately, it’s also one that’s easy to change. [...]
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Preventing Windows Auto-Restarting on System Errors
Filed Under: 64-bit, Computers, How To, Operating Systems, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows - Other, Windows 7, Windows Registry, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: auto-reboot, auto-restart, control panels, dialog box, error, microsoft windows, preventing, reboot, rebooting, restart, system, system errors, system reboot, windows, windows 7, windows update, windows vista, windows xp
Outlook Express 6 Prints Email Headers Only
Subscriber Marc Taylor asked for some help solving a problem with Outlook Express 6: Searched the site but found nothing re: this problem. Currently running OE 6 on a Toshiba laptop running XP SP3 and it quit printing the body of an e-mail. Just prints header info. Have tried different printers. Any ideas? Thanks, Marc [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Email, Operating Systems, Outlook Express, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Updates, Windows, Windows XP Tagged With: computing, e mail, email, express, ftp clients, headers, home theater, internet explorer, internet explorer 7, internet explorer 8, microsoft windows, mozilla thunderbird, OE, outlook express, outlook express 6, prints, rss aggregators, solve, toshiba laptops, windows 7
Windows 7 System File Checker SFC Finds Corrupt Files But Couldn’t Fix Them
Longtime subscriber Robert Herzog wrote to ask about a problem that he was having with his Windows 7 installation: Hi Terry, I have a windows 7/64 SP1 home premium system and run SFC (the Windows "System File Checker" — Terry) once a month. All was well until last week when I ran SFC and got [...]
Filed Under: 64-bit, Computers, Hard Drives, Operating Systems, Repair, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows - Other, Windows 7, Windows Registry, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: corrupt files, corrupted files, filing, finds, fix, microsoft windows, sfc, system file checker, window, windows 7, windows system, windows vista
The Network Is Down – No Internet Access
I sat down at my computer recently to finish writing my newsletter, only to find the hated words "Not connected." Windows 7 was informing me that I had no network connection. Not just no Internet access, but not even access to the other computers on my home network. This was a horrible morning. Everything worked [...]
Filed Under: Broadband, Cable, Communications, Computers, Firefox, Hardware, Networking, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Web Browsing Tagged With: access, cable internet service providers, cable modem, computer networking, computing, Ethernet, gigabit ethernet, home network, internet access, internet connections, linksys, logical link control, modems, network connection, network wires, networking hardware, no internet, osi protocols, residential gateway, router, routers, the network, wireless router
Speeding Up the Slow Computer
Isn’t it amazing? When we first get a new computer, it seems blazingly fast – and much faster than our previous computer. But, then, as we start to use it and install the antivirus, antimalware, and firewall programs, they start running a bit slower. Then, we install the programs we really want to use, you [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Operating Systems, Repair, Software, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows Tagged With: antivirus software, computer, computer boot, computer models, computers, computing, firewall programs, hard drives, microsoft security essentials, new computers, operating system, proprietary software, running programs, slow, slow computer, speeding up, system software, vipre, vipre antivirus, vipre premium, window updates, windows xp
USB Flash Drive Errors
USB flash drives are great things, until they don’t work… You store data on the flash drive. Then, one day you insert the flash drive into your computer – and get an error message. That’s what happened to David McCartney: Hi Terry, Once again I would be grateful for your assistance I have been using [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Hardware, Repair, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: computers, drives, error, error messages, errors, flash drive, formatting, usb flash drive, usb flash drives, usb portable drives, usb ports
Some Quick Questions, Answers and Comments
I wrote recently about Karen’s Replicator, which is a good free (for personal, non-business use) synchronization program from Karen Kenworthy that I use for daily backups of my computers (as well as using Acronis True Image Home 2011 for periodic image backups). Shortly thereafter, Christopher Spilker wrote to tell me: Terry, I thought you would [...]
Filed Under: Communications, Computers, Email, Outlook Express, Repair, Software, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Upgrades Tagged With: acronis true image, computing, environmental variable, error, ftp clients, human interest, internet explorer, internet explorer 8, karen kenworthy, kenworthy, microsoft windows, outlook express, power tools, questions, readers, rss aggregators, upgrades
Windows 7′s Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player Disappeared
I ran into friend and subscriber Sam Boggs recently at a home & landscaping show. He followed up to tell me about this recent experience. My first thought was "now, that’s weird, I haven’t heard of that problem before." Then, I realized I had experienced something very similar with Microsoft’s Virtual PC software… Sam wrote: [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Operating Systems, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: centers, computing, disappear, disappeared, ftp clients, google search, internet explorer, internet explorer 6, internet explorer 8, latest windows, media center, microsoft, microsoft windows, rss aggregators, virtual pc, window, windows, windows 7, windows media center, windows media player, windows vista, windows xp
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