Category: Windows

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Fix: Audiodg.exe High CPU Usage

Published on: March 18, 2009 and has 221 Comments

I recently had a problem when playing movies through iTunes on a laptop. At various parts of the movie, the entire laptop would become extremely slow, causing the movie to sputter. This happened at infrequent intervals. The laptop has a dual core 1.6Ghz and 2GB of RAM, so I new it was more than capable [...]

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How to Connect to a Network Printer in Windows XP

Published on: November 21, 2008 and has 6 Comments

For most home users it is very easy to connect to a printer. Older printers are usually connected to the parallel port, while the new printers are connected to the USB port. Once the printer is connected and drivers loaded you can easily select the printer from the list and begin printing. For those on [...]

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What are Batch Files?

Published on: October 22, 2008 and has No Comments

I recently was in charge of creating a silent install for an application. While many installations include a silent option, this one was a bit different. I had to also run other installs, as well as import registry settings, and also copy files. To help me with this task I used a batch file that [...]

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How to Map a Hard Drive to a Directory

Published on: June 13, 2008 and has 4 Comments

In my last post I mentioned that I have been exploring the option of backing up my data online. In that post I mentioned two services, Carbonite and Mozy. Although both were similar, Mozy was the only service that could backup data located on an external hard drive. During my test with Carbonite, I managed [...]

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How To Open Microsoft Office 2007 Documents in Earlier Versions

Published on: June 6, 2008 and has 5 Comments

I recently ran into an issue with an e-mail attachment. The extension of the attachment was .xlsx, which made me believe that it was a Microsoft Excel document. I saved the document to the local hard drive and attempted to open it, but was dismayed to find that no application was associated with it. After [...]

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Fix: Internet Explorer Opens a Blank Window

Published on: April 30, 2008 and has 3 Comments

I recently was informed of someone having an issue with Internet Explorer. The problem happened when they clicked on a link that opened a new browser window. Once the new window was opened, the new Web page was not requested and the browser window remained blank. After some quick searching, I came across a fix [...]

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Windows Key Shortcuts

Published on: April 25, 2008 and has 1 Comment

In many previous posts I provided step-by-step instructions for performing certain tasks. At times I mentioned several methods of accomplishing one of the steps, and usually it involved using the Windows key on your keyboard. This key provides many shortcuts for commonly used functions within Windows. I have decided to compile a list of the [...]

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Running Old DOS Programs in Windows XP or Vista

Published on: March 14, 2008 and has 6 Comments

The first PC my family ever had had an 8088 4.77MHz processor, 640KB of RAM, 20MB hard drive and a CGA (4colors) graphics adapter. This was back in the early to mid-80s, but I remember how much fun I had playing many games on that system. Back then, of course, all games and applications ran [...]

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