Hard drives go wonky. It has happened to the best of us. You boot your shiny new Vista computer, and you get hard drive errors along with a message that says “Cannot find STUPIDDRIVER.SYS”. Windows will not boot, and you’re in a panic. You cannot even get into Safe Mode to run a disk scan. You [...]
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Run System Restore from the Command Line
It sometimes happens that you install some new hardware or program which then wreaks havoc on your computer. You may experience unusual program crashes or error messages, and they can sometimes be difficult to diagnose. Usually the easiest option is to run System Restore and return your computer to a state prior to the offending [...]
Six Data Recovery Tools to Help Regain Your Data
I don’t think I have to say that data loss is everyone’s nightmare. At home, data loss could mean years worth of photos, videos, financials, and documents lost. In business, data loss means money out the window. Many times, however, you want to recover data, but you don’t want to pay the exorbitant fees that [...]
Resize a Partition for Free in Windows Vista
Windows Vista includes a built-in functionality in Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities needed! To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box.. you’ll immediately see the link show up: Shrink a Partition In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on [...]
Enable Hidden Boot Screen in Windows Vista
The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from left-to-right). But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No? Microsoft may not have [...]
Die, Floppy, DIE! (The Floppy Rant)
We live in an age where processors have reached an atomic minimum, a sound card has more processing power than Apollo 11, and where video cards become garage sale fodder within six months. CDs could once only be created by large studios with deep pockets, but is now a very common consumer item, and almost [...]
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