Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting tips and tricks to help you solve the tech problems and issues you run into while working on your computer, surfing the web or developing a new website.

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How To Disable The (Annoying) Office Connected Experiences Alert

Have you sat down at your workstation after your morning meditation with your favorite cup of Joe, ready to start the day in a relaxed fashion, only to be greeted by an uncooperative computer? The culprit in this week’s episode of “annoying PC problem” is Microsoft’s Office 365 product line and their new, incredibly annoying “Connected Experiences” prompts. We’ll show you how to turn them off for good.

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WiFi Keeps Dropping? Solutions For iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Google, Phone, Computer & More

Is your wireless connection dropping unexpectedly? For example, while you’re away from the computer, or if the screensaver kicks in, or if you don’t use the internet for a while? The most common causes for a wireless connection drop are your wireless router and network card. We’re going to teach you some troubleshooting tips, in order of helpfulness, that should get your wireless connection back up and running because we all know how annoying it can be if your internet keeps dropping.

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Backing Up and Restoring Drupal Using a Migrate Module

Protecting Drupal data is slightly more complicated than a locally stored, static-file website, since all the data is stored in a database. Therefore the key to backing up your data is to backup the database. Here I outline a process that works for me. I do not make any guarantees as to the correctness of this information nor will I be held responsible for any problems you encounter as a result of its use.

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How To Fix “503 Valid RCPT Command Must Precede DATA” Error

We recently got this error when trying to send an email in Outlook. The culprit? Apparently this occurs when a server is expecting to receive mail before sending. This is usually results from server authentication priorities (for example, you attempt to send mail before your “spam filter” has finished its receiving process.) Here are several ways to resolve this error.

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How To Delete Or Cancel Hung Print Jobs In Windows

It’s easy enough to cancel a print job in the queue – you simply right-click it and select “cancel,” after which the print job status commences to display “deleting…” After which you normally expect the print job to cancel and disappear so you can resume printing, correct? Unfortunately, often the print job will hang and prevent you from continuing to print anew from that same printer. We’re going to show you how to forcefully delete these pesky print jobs…

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