Archive for the 'Troubleshooting' Category

Disabling Startup Items

As a full time techie you tend to come across a lot of bad software in your travels. Most of the time I have to remove for people .
But in saying that every now and then you come across a few gems. One i will mention today is a little program called Startup Control [...]

Moving email to a Mac

Wow what a problem I had today. One of my clients has decided to migrate to Apple Mac’s. So he gets me out to move his historical email from a Windows laptop and desktop to Entourage. Sounds simple enough right??? Right???
Wrong and I must say I was surprised. I tried a few methods.
Saving individual mails [...]

Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

The Windows Blue Screen of Death or BSOD as we techies call it can be the bane of our existance.  I have spent long and frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot these messages. Initally i was like many who just shrugged their shoulders and put it down to faulty hardware or Windows biting the bullet. While [...]

Antivirus 2009 followup

Well OMG after over a week of dealing with this I can conclude this is one of the worst infection I have dealt with in a long time. Infact from a couple of different points, it looks legit I mean the whole thing to the untrained eye makes you think its a valid product that [...]

Antivirus 2009 and Fakeness

Thought I would write a little on this horrible fake and deciving software. Reason being is the 11 seperate clients in the past 2 weeks that have been infected by it. Probably not a lot in the grand scheme of things but I live in a town with a population of 3000 so 11 is [...]