Computer Repair Tips for everyday users

Before you attempt to do anything mentioned here or elsewhere, please remember to always back up your data.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

How to make sure you have the latest drivers

What could happen if you don't check AND update your drivers? Your machine could face the following consequences:

Devices become less functional or stop functioning
Conflicts with new software and/or hardware
PC crashes in extreme cases
Reduced system stability


Try drive scanner

I have not yet tested this but will update this when I have given it a whirl.  As always, use at your own risk and read my opening header.


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Thursday, October 27, 2011

PDF-Xchange Viewer, Free & Easy to Use


License: Free
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7,Microsoft Windows Vista,Microsoft Windows XP,Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

In addition to letting you mark up view and mark up PDFs, the well-designed and easy-to-use PDF Xchange creates PDFs from text, RTF, image files, and scanned materials--something that you just can't do with Adobe Reader. - Kim Saccio-Kent


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PrimoPDF, free PDF maker

PrimoPDF is a printer driver that creates PDF files from your documents. It's extremely easy to use and produces excellent PDFs--without the watermarks that some programs add. - PCWorld Staff



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The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”, when logging on to Windows 7 or Windows Vista

I have had this happen to a couple computers so I uninstalled and disabled all Google updater and followed these instructions.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215


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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Remote Desktop Printing

Not sure how well this tool works but found it on Downloads.com
http://download.cnet.com/Print2RDP/3000-7240_4-10434514.html


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