Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on ASUS laptops

Installing Ubunut 20.04 on several models of ASUS lpatops (and other brands) using NVidia video can have several issues.  The first issue I noticed was the PCIE errors, the next error is the purple screen after login. To resolve these issues boot into the BIOS Setup...

Process Explorer

Is something unusual happening to your computer? Do you suspect a virus or malware? Maybe you just need to know what files a program has open. Process Explorer can quickly help answer all this and more and it's free! Powerful security tools are available in Process...

Hafnium

As I write this on March 14 the exploit has been public news for 12 days. The FBI comments that thousands of Exchange servers are being infected every hour. Patches from Microsoft have been released to assist and many of the antivirus packages recognize Hafnium and...

So you're looking at a blue screen of death for the nth time. You want to know what the issue is. There are two utilities below that will help   WhoCrashed http://resplendence.com/downloads   BlueScreenView http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Zoom Crashing and Freezing

Are your zoom meetings crashing? Do you find it freezing several times per minute? I've found a registry hack that solves this issue. Add a REG_DWORD called EnableFrameServerMode with a value of 0 to the registry. There are two locations:...

Outlook – Black boxes and video artifacts

Many users complain about boxes appearing in Outlook or odd screen artifacts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are often the result of badly handled graphics acceleration. Fortunately this is easy to solve. Click on File->Option then on the menu on the left of the...

Lost your laptop power supply?

Did you lose your laptop power supply? Need one for the car? Check www.pwr-plus.com they have helped me several times.

What to do now that Apple has removed support for PPTP

When Apple released IOS 10 late in 2016 many of us noticed our MacBooks lost our PPTP VPN settings. At first this seems like an error; Apple can't really just drop VPN support to Windows machines! Yes they did, not only did they remove it from our Macs but they won't...

Booting Windows 10 PE from a USB stick

If you've been infected by a virus or found your system doesn't boot any more you may be able to repair your system by booting Windows from a USB drive. Microsoft has a small OS called Windows PE (WinPE) available from this link: WinPE on Microsoft.com. There are...

iPhone Field Test Mode

Instead of 1 to 5 dots or bars get a real number for signal strength. This is the better way to test signal quality. Accessing Field Test Mode on the iPhone is relatively simple, just open the Phone app, switch to the keypad and dial the following code: *3001#12345#*...

Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on ASUS laptops

Installing Ubunut 20.04 on several models of ASUS lpatops (and other brands) using NVidia video can have several issues.  The first issue I noticed was the PCIE errors, the next error is the purple screen after login. To resolve these issues boot into the BIOS Setup...

Process Explorer

Is something unusual happening to your computer? Do you suspect a virus or malware? Maybe you just need to know what files a program has open. Process Explorer can quickly help answer all this and more and it's free! Powerful security tools are available in Process...

Hafnium

As I write this on March 14 the exploit has been public news for 12 days. The FBI comments that thousands of Exchange servers are being infected every hour. Patches from Microsoft have been released to assist and many of the antivirus packages recognize Hafnium and...

So you're looking at a blue screen of death for the nth time. You want to know what the issue is. There are two utilities below that will help   WhoCrashed http://resplendence.com/downloads   BlueScreenView http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Zoom Crashing and Freezing

Are your zoom meetings crashing? Do you find it freezing several times per minute? I've found a registry hack that solves this issue. Add a REG_DWORD called EnableFrameServerMode with a value of 0 to the registry. There are two locations:...

Outlook – Black boxes and video artifacts

Many users complain about boxes appearing in Outlook or odd screen artifacts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are often the result of badly handled graphics acceleration. Fortunately this is easy to solve. Click on File->Option then on the menu on the left of the...

What to do now that Apple has removed support for PPTP

When Apple released IOS 10 late in 2016 many of us noticed our MacBooks lost our PPTP VPN settings. At first this seems like an error; Apple can't really just drop VPN support to Windows machines! Yes they did, not only did they remove it from our Macs but they won't...

Booting Windows 10 PE from a USB stick

If you've been infected by a virus or found your system doesn't boot any more you may be able to repair your system by booting Windows from a USB drive. Microsoft has a small OS called Windows PE (WinPE) available from this link: WinPE on Microsoft.com. There are...

iPhone Field Test Mode

Instead of 1 to 5 dots or bars get a real number for signal strength. This is the better way to test signal quality. Accessing Field Test Mode on the iPhone is relatively simple, just open the Phone app, switch to the keypad and dial the following code: *3001#12345#*...