Capturing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
The default on many PCs, particularly those that come from the big manufacturers, is to reboot after a blue screen of death (BSOD), the wonderful blue screen with white letters that greets you with...
View ArticleTwo Home Menu Items After Setting Static Front Page in WordPress
Yesterday, I wrote about “Using WordPress as a Regular Website with a Static Front Page”, in which I wrote: As long as your WordPress theme already supports it, that’s really all there is to it! You...
View ArticleGeek Friday: iFixit Troubleshooting and Repair Resource
There are various, and useful I should say, web resources for repair manuals and items out there. However, rarely do you see one site where you can both order tools and download videos/manuals. Well,...
View ArticleWhen Windows Won’t Startup
What can you try to get a Windows PC up and running when it won’t start correctly? Without making things worse? It turns out there are various things you can try. Check out my latest Helium article...
View ArticleGeek Friday Tuesday: Fixing a Botched Office 2010 Install
Sorry for pushing this article so far forward, but the (still ongoing) Java issue needed to be reported last week, and then I took some much needed rest during this long weekend. Windows Vista, Norton...
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Geek Friday: Making a Useful Tech Troubleshooting USB Flash Drive
There are probably about as many lists of useful PC utilities for a desktop/laptop support technician as there are websites that cater to them. In fact, some sites, such as Major Geeks, specialize in...
View ArticleGeek Friday: Handy Network Tools Online
Windows isn’t a bad operating system in some respects, but there really are times I miss Unix. Unix has a nice toolbox of various commands. One set of commands that is particularly handy are the...
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Geek Friday: What Is DSUpdate.exe and Why Do I Get “Abnormal program...
I like Dells. Really. However, all manufacturer’s do boneheaded things, and it is not at all uncommon for users to be greeted with a box at startup that says DSUpdate.exe or DSUpd.exe caused an...
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Windows 8 Won’t Start, Now What?
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me in making bonehead decisions. It seems that they often change things in different versions for no reason at all. Take safe mode, for example. Used to be that you...
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Geek Friday: Why and How I Finally Removed PulseAudio in Favor of ALSA and...
One of the recent challenges I’ve encountered has been using Skype on Ubuntu 13.10. All other sound works, but Skype either does not or it produces a buzzing sound. I finally had enough and decided...
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