If you don’t know what kind of motherboard your computer has in it, then finding the right type of RAM memory sticks you need can be tricky. In order to upgrade your RAM, you’ll need to find out 3 pieces of information in all: what type of memory do you need; how much do you […]
Category: How To
Instructional posts designed to take the complexity of a system setup down to where anyone can follow it step-by-step
I get asked a lot by coworkers and friends about how to clean up a computer (either because it’s running slow, has spyware, or because they just can’t do anything on it any more). Below are 5 of the major cleanup methods I use to get their computer up and running again. Depending on the […]
Recently, all my Windows Vista & Windows 7 machines started displaying errors saying that Live Mesh had crashed and needed to be shut down. Unfortunately, the errors wouldn’t stop occurring even when the program was exited and the error cleared. It was thought that IE9 beta and Live Mesh beta don’t like to play well […]
Today I had a user tell me that when he rebooted his computer (Vista Business SP2 x32), he could no longer connect to our Exchange 2003 server with Outlook 2007. It prompted him with the “Retry | Work Offline | Cancel” dialog. Clicking “Retry” did nothing, clicking “Work Offline” threw an error: “The connection to […]
HP 4240n 49.ff09 Service Error
Today we experienced a new-to-me error code on our HP 4240n LaserJet printer that read “49.ff09 Service Error”. After much searching on the internet, I found a couple different sites talking about the 49.xxxx Service Errors and what others had done in their troubleshooting efforts. Most of the links I came across mentioned something about […]