Back in the 1980s McDonald’s decided to make ringing up products easier, minimize errors and save time by putting pictures (icons) of the food items on their cash registers. Following McDonald’s lead, both Apple and Microsoft decided that rather than just listing the names of applications on the computer’s desktop, they would provide little pictures […]
July 17th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | ContinuedArchive for admin
Customizing Windows Vista Settings
One of the biggest features that Microsoft has been using to sell Vista besides its spectacular graphics capabilities is the ability to customize the operating system and truly personalize your PC. While you have always been able to customize windows, vista does allow you to customize the following items:
Colors
Desktop Background
Screen Saver
Sounds
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Fix Sound Errors in Windows XP
With sound and video bring ubiquitous on the internet, in voice and video email, in computer games and even many of the latest applications, working sound has almost become a necessity to use your computer. Sound causes more problems than any other single thing on every personal computer operating system.
Symptoms
A computer with sound problems will […]
Outlook Express Errors
As we become more dependent on email as a primary method of communication in both our professional and business life, errors can be especially annoying and possibly serious when it affects out livelihood. The table below lists to common error codes and the various methods of fixing the errors after that. I recommend you start […]
June 18th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Program not responding errors
Every computer user has asked themselves the following questions:
Why is my program not responding?
What is taking so long…why is it running so slow?
Most of the time we think the program is actually doing something until we get frustrated enough to start clicking in the window and we get the Programming not Responding Error.
There are several […]
How To Fix kernel32.dll Errors
Kernel32.dll is a dynamic link library used by the windows operating system to handle input, output, interrupts and memory management. That means that this file contains all of the programming code that controls your input and out put operations such as reading the input from your keyboard or mouse and writing that output to the […]
June 9th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
What is a Windows DLL File
A windows .dll file is a dynamic link library which is a method that windows uses to house commonly used features to make application development easier and to maintain the modularity of modern programming. The windows operating system contains over 10 million lines of programming code. With out modular programming, a small change in one […]
June 2nd, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
What is a Flash Player?
As the internet has matured it is no longer a media of static information. Interactive web pages are the rule rather than the exception. A lot of that interactivity has been made possible by Flash. Flash was originally created by the Macromedia Corporation as a way to animate two dimensional graphics to create cartoons that […]
May 26th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
How To Format Your Hard Drive
Step 1 - Back up your data
You must backup all of the files you created or any other data you can’t afford to lose no matter where they are stored on the hard drive. When you format the hard drive, it will erase EVERYTHING on the hard drive. So backup up everything you don’t want […]
Fix VLC Media Player Audio Errors
The VLC Media Player is a free open source multi media player that can play the most popular formats for audio, video and various streaming protocols. In my experience, it can also play many of the more obscure formats that the other players can’t handle. The VLC media player can also be used as a […]
April 28th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued