Occasionally I get a PC in my shop which has a broken or non working cd drive. One of the mail tools I use is a disk called Hirens Boot CD. Yes I know its considered Warez however it is by far the best collection of tools for a PC tech around so I use it…
One of my clients got a new Panasonic DP-8045 Digital Imaging Device which is a great device for heavy print use. The client needed various things configured on the device including networking so various computers could print to the device. To configure most of the settings you need what Panasonic calls the Operator password.
Yesterday afternoon a friend dropped his computer by so I could make it go a bit faster which I initially thought must just be some application using up a ton of resources or something. The issue ended up being that the computer was an older PowerPC G4 running Mac OSX 10.3 that didn’t have a…
There are quite a few articles on how to do this around the internet but I noticed the other day that we did not have one so I decided to make a quick post on how to do this. In previous versions of Windows such as XP all you had to do was press F8…
Today I was working on a Vista laptop and I encountered the error “page failed to load” while trying to open many of the control panel icons. I thought at first maybe the permissions for the user were screwed up even though the user was an administrator. So next I enabled the administrator account and…
When attempting to uninstall the Ask Toolbar on a laptop earlier I ran into numerous issues including receiving an error 1730. The error 1730 displayed even though I was logged into the Windows Vista laptop as an administrator and following the proper directions for uninstallation. Below I describe numerous steps to take that will guarantee…
The Conficker worm was first detected around November of 2008. Although Microsoft has long since released a patch for this vulnerability entitled MS-0687 there are still a astounding amount of computers that are getting infected with Conficker due to the MS-0687 vulnerability.
The Okidata c3400 printer has a web administration page that can be used to configure printer settings after the initial setup with the Okidata Network Utility. Once you have configured the IP address on the printer you can visit that IP address in a web browser to view more information about the printer. Example: http://192.168.2.20…
To turn on legacy support in Joomla 1.5 follow the below steps. Joomla Admin:Login to the Joomla admin by visiting http://yourdomain.com/administrator Open Plugin Manager:Click on Extensions in the top navigation and choose Plugin Manager from the drop down. Enable System – Legacy:Now visit page 2 of the plugins and click the red X for System…