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.
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.
Is your MacBook (or PC) low on space? Or perhaps it’s running a bit slower than usual. In my case I was frequently receiving “Storage Full” errors despite my best efforts to clear my hard drive and trash can. As it turns out files were hiding in various places and eating up all my disk space. Read on to learn how I cleaned my Mac and how you too can have a clean Mac too…
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.
Having problems loading gmail? Can’t log into your Google account? In other words, you try to sign in to your gmail account but the page keeps loading and reloading without going anywhere? We have your solution.
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.
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.
Seen this error before? Or seeing it right now and pulling your hair out? This is a common error involving Drupal’s filemanager and image modules (acidfree). Read on for the fix…
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…
Optimize Open Office to reduce memory usage with these quick changes that will improve your computer’s performance…
No, in fact, it’s made by the same company (BVRP) responsible for known spyware applications. In this case, the Digital Line Detect process is part of the Phone Tools Software Suite – offering emailing, faxing, and phone book utilities…
A common problem users experience when running Windows Home, Professional, XP, or Vista – is that it won’t resume from standby or hibernation. In particular, while Windows will go into standby or hibernate, on occasion it won’t wake up. Or – it will sound like it’s woken up, and your keyboard lights may work, but your monitor won’t come back on…
JustAnswer is a user driven site that allows users to ask questions about any topic they choose. Users can set their own price for getting the question answered. Verified experts will respond to the question. It is a really unique and user friendly service that could benefit many people. There are lawyers, vets, doctors, mechanics and many other experts online at all times…
