Recently I received a notebook that once didn't load Windows, USB stick (bootable) - at all. The first thing was to enable booting. The problem occurred after reset of the BIOS. I assumed the CMOS battery has depleted. Generally, no big deal. Switch off UEFI boot option and enable legacy instead. After booting, however a [...]
We are all excited about new Windows 10 well, maybe most or some of us :) New Microsoft policy regarding upgrade might seem cool but in my opinion there must be some catches. I can only imagine what kind of data will be exchanged by a computer and Microsoft servers before upgrading - in preparing [...]
Setting maximum attachment size for outlook - a little warning When you want to change maximum attachment size for Microsoft Outlook, you may see on the Internet guides that you may set this limit to actually - unlimited. This might be done by setting proper registry key to value of "0": For Outlook 2013: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Preferences [...]
Today is the last day of support for Windows 8.1 systems as well as Windows RT 8.1 that does not have KB2919355 update installed. Microsoft announced this earlier this year. According to Microsoft, all systems running Windows 8.1 with automatic updates enabled should have this already installed. If for some reason your Windows system didn't install it [...]
BLACK BLOB SOLUTION (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) For many users with this black blob/dot issue, the problem is caused by a defective Bluetooth add-in for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.Black Blob Word 2007 FIX (Similar process for Excel and PowerPoint, just use excel.exe, and powerpnt.exe instead of 'Winword' in the following) Click Start button --> Type Winword into the search box [...]
Maybe you have noticed, that when you buy a new computer from HP it is loaded with lots of software. Most of them are considered very "helpful" by HP staff - maybe for home users they are. But most of them are just software that you won't probably ever use. Among them there's HP Client Security [...]
As stated by Microsoft many times before, on 8th of april 2014 Microsoft has stopped updating Windows XP Professional and Home systems. That said, none of almost 1/4 in the world computers will receive updates for their computers. Many of their users will simply not bother since they are home or not-so-aware-of-risk users. Some of [...]
