Facebook Videos I’ve never uploaded a video to Facebook on my own account, but for my Uncle, on his account. To date, I have uploaded 217 videos for him. He’s one of those people who, no matter how many times I show him or write […]
Screen Shots Before VLC At one time it was nearly impossible to take a screen shot of a movie scene because of a thing called interlacing. If you tried using the Print Screen button, I can tell you from experience that all you would have
Simple SATA -> USB Adapter Sometimes you might need to temporarily hook up an internal hard drive to another computer. You might want to scan/clean an infected drive, for example, or use it as a down and dirty backup solution (mainly what I use them
No Sound? Audio issues are one of the most common problems faced by Windows users and, because of the huge variety of differing configurations, fixing them can sometimes be quite a complex process. However, here are several basic steps that even the most novice of
Opera Themes If you want to change the background theme in Opera, or create your own, do the following: Right-click on the Speed Dial page and choose Change theme. Here you have some choices. Default themes, My theme, Get more themes, Go to start page.
I just recently bought my first Android tablet. My Sister sold me her Proscan Android tablet. Most annoying piece of tech I’ve ever owned. Slow as molasses running up hill. Everything seems to be updating all the time in the background. I’m tempted to ROOT
Surface won’t resurface A couple days ago a guy bought me his Surface (RT) tablet running Windows 8. From the description of the issue as he explained it, the problem seems to be that it powers down fine when they are not using it but
A woman brought me her Vista laptop to fix. First there was a BIOS password she wanted removed. Since she knew the password that was no problem. Just go into the BIOS, look for the password options, then reset them by leaving them blank. Then
Trouble seems to come in waves. Sometimes it feels like I’m fixing computers one after another. Then there is a calming off period where I go for a whole month or more before it starts all over again. Sometimes I think I must have angered
A woman called and wanted me to transfer all her songs from an iPod to an iPad. I thought it would be straight forward but in my case, no such luck. At first I figured it would just be a matter of backing up the
The last few weeks my Windows 7 system developed a problem with Windows Explorer crashing. Searching online didn’t garner too many results that appealed to me. I had already restored my system from an image backup but surprisingly it did not fix the problem. The
Fixed Chrome Not Opening, Very Slow Laptop, And Resetting A Compaq Chrome Not Opening A guy brought me his laptop (Win 10) because he couldn’t get Chrome to open. I tried opening it through both the Taskbar and desktop icons. Also went to the program
The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. A woman brought me her Win7 laptop that had 3 accounts set up but couldn’t access any because the passwords would not go through. I have deleted forgotten passwords before using a boot
A picture is worth a thousand words! I only write about my personal experiences and I seem to running out of them. I’m still fixing computers of course but it seems mostly to be the same old, same old. So this time I’m just going
