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Windows Installer Error: System Cannot Open the Device of File Specified

November 25, 2009 | No Comments
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I had been having a problem when installing software that consisted of a single MSI file. Whenever I ran a MSI file I continuously received an error on the screen that prevented the application from being installed. I tried it on several installs, and they all produced the same error. Realizing it wasn’t the actual [...]

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Why are Some Files Coloured in Windows Explorer?

November 18, 2009 | No Comments
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Someone recently as me a question as to why some files appear in either a blue or green colour when they viewed their files in Window Explorer. They were wondering if there was a problem with those files and what should they do about it. I assured them that there was no problem with their [...]

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Play Classic Games on Your PC

October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

I am a child of the eighties, and grew up playing many of the early computer games. The games were smaller and simpler back then, and at times, you had to manage everything on your computer, including disk space usage and conventional memory. I started on a 8088 with 20 MB of disk space and [...]

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Protect Your Computer with Sandboxie

September 30, 2009 | No Comments
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Keeping your data and computer secure is very important, especially if you spend much of your time online. There are many ways for hackers to gain access to your computer while you download files from web sites. This is why it is important to always install and use anti-virus and anti-malware software, a software firewall, [...]

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Microsoft Word 2007 Keeps Registering

September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
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My trials with Microsoft Vista continue. I had issues in the past with iTunes continuously configuring itself, and now Microsoft Word 2007 doing something similar. I never had these problems with Windows XP, only on Vista. This time Microsoft Word continued to auto-register itself whenever it was launched. I wouldn’t mind it so much, but [...]

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Convert a Microsoft Word Document to PDF for Free

September 2, 2009 | 9 Comments
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Most people who have used a computer in the past have probably seen and read a PDF document. Many software and hardware manuals now come in a PDF version, or you can download them from their vendors. For those that don’t know about a PDF document, they are documents that will be displayed the same [...]

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Microsoft Vista: How to Disable UAC Warnings

August 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
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Since I have been using Microsoft Vista I have kept UAC disabled since I was repeatedly bombarded by warnings. These messages were constantly displayed on the screen whenever I wanted to change some system settings, and became annoying very quickly. The quick solution, therefore, was for me to disable UAC. Everything had been working fine [...]

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Access is Denied With External Hard Drive

August 14, 2009 | No Comments

Recently I received a phone call from someone I know that had recently purchased a hard drive enclosure. This allowed them to use an internal hard drive as a USB 2.0 external hard drive. He was attempting to connect the hard drive on a new laptop with Microsoft Vista installed. Every time he connected the [...]

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