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If you have ever logged on to Windows XP and found that there was an error message greeting you, you may have a corrupt user profile. This will often follow a forced system shutdown or similar system problem. You might be presented with an error that says “The system has recovered from a serious error. Your user profile is damaged.”

To fix this problem you will likely be forced to create a new user account.  Making new user accounts can be a pain because you can lose all of your settings and preferences from your old user account that may have taken you months (or years) to get right. Here are some tips to help you to create a new user account profile without losing your favorite settings. Read the rest of this entry »

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In these times of financial turmoil, scams are sprouting up like mushrooms overnight on the Web. Tough economic conditions have also resulted in boom time for web development companies, web hosting companies, SEO companies, and freelancers, as increasing numbers of people and small businesses try to set up an online presence and market their products online. But along with the legit stuff, there’s unfortunately a lot of dross that has emerged too.

There’s every scam under the sun. There are Nigerian scams, ponzi scams, sweepstakes scams, HYIP scams, credit card scams, and many more. Today I just want to touch on work at home scams because these seem to have run rampant over the past several months. Let the truth be repeated again, making money online just isn’t as easy as what many of these make money sites or blogs are trying to make you think. It’s just clear all this baloney is simply preying on the increasing number of desperate or greedy people out there. Read the rest of this entry »

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For those of you that use your computers a lot, there are many good reasons why you don’t want anyone simply accessing it and messing with your stuff. Today’s post will be how to add a custom interactive logon message to your computer using Microsoft Management Console (MMC), which is a utility for the system administrator (you).

Most often it is large corporations that will want to do this. I’d imagine many federal laws state that if you want the right to prosecute someone for unauthorized use or access of your system, you must post a warning before logging on to the system. If you are not legally obligated to add a security warning, you might want to just add a funny message upon login. If you use laptops primarily, this feature might come in handy. Read the rest of this entry »

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So Microsoft officially changed their Live search to Bing a few days ago. I was never one to use MSN Live to search (ever), but when I put it through the paces, I have to say, it’s not bad at all!

Although the name sounds a little campy to me, what matters is performance. Unlike Cuil which has already been largely disregarded as a lame search engine, Bing looks and behaves amazingly similar to Google, except with a little more bling added (pardon the pun). Read the rest of this entry »

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The Chkdsk (acronym for check disk) utility tool is an integral part of Windows that you can use to check and repair hard disk errors that might occur. It’s one of the first steps you can take to check your hard drive if it is giving some problems.

One of the things to bear in mind is that chkdsk is not the perfect tool to fix hard drive cluster problems, and in rare instances can even make the problem worse. If you used floppy drives before (the little 1.44 MB ones), you’ll know what I mean.

Although normally it should run, most PC users who are running XP will notice that their chkdsk utility occasionally will not run after an improper shutdown, which can happen for whatever reason, like a power failure for example. Read the rest of this entry »

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I decided to republish a very long but detailed comment from an Ati user, Casondra, on May 5, 2009, regarding the Ati2dvag problem that I used to face - which resulted in me trashing my previous computer completely.

I wrote to Casondra much earlier asking her if she would mind me republishing her comment in a separate post because the old post was getting a little lengthy in comments, and she agreed it was a good idea too.

“I figure the more information there is out there about this, the fewer people who will go insane looking for answers,” - Casondra Read the rest of this entry »

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