Encumbered in Services and Processes
For as long as I can remember, every version of Windows has enabled me to see what processes are running, except maybe Windows 3.11. As I continued to…
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PC ER: How-To Recover Data from a Damaged SD Card
Situation: 2GB SD card no longer registers as ‘visible’ to the digital camera and is barely readable within the Vista OS. Potential Loss: ~1.5GB worth of photos and…
Why Yahoo Mail is Still an Epic Catastrophe
Someone in my family, with good intentions I’m sure, decided to give my dear grandmother a free Yahoo Mail account to replace her digit-ridden CompuServe e-mail address. I…
PC ER: Operating system not found.
This is one of the worst kind of error messages you can receive. Typically, however, one can conclude that either the hard drive is not functioning properly, the…
DOS: Bypassing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (and other) Errors
I was terribly busy working on a case this week. Many of the documents in the case were scanned in .TIF (also known as TIFF, Tagged Image File…
How-To Transfer Data From Old Laptops
To be clear, this is really just a brief overview of how to take out a typical laptop HDD (hard disk drive) and then plug it into a…