I can’t Find My Firefox Bookmarks After a Recovery

Firefox has changed the default location of its bookmark store in Firefox 3. It used to be that you could find your bookmarks located at 1 Documents and Settings (name of the user) Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles (name of the profile) bookmarks.html This has now been changed to 1 Documents and Settings (name of the user) Application [...]

What’s a good Anti-Virus to use?

We wrote this post in response to a comment on another post. We most often recommend Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm. Our choices are based on products that are efficient in preventing virus infections, semi transparent, unobtrusive, and user friendly. And FYI. if you see the image below when copying files, you may have a [...]

Can’t uninstall Java 1.6.0.11, Unable to locate jre1.6.0_11-c-l.msi

We’ve come across this issue on quite a few occasions. It seems that this issues arises after a botched uninstall of Java products. It seems to leave a registry entry behind that makes it nearly impossible to reinstall Java. We’re not exactly sure what the registry entry is at this point, but we have found [...]

My WordPress Blog is Sending Mail With My Webhosts Address

Here’s our solution. Be sure your working with the most up to date file. Local copies can become outdated with online updates. Edit the following file: wordpress-root-directory/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php On line 75 (valid on WordPress 2.7.1 – 2.8.7) and edit, “root@localhost.com” to the address you’de like to appear in administrative emails, ie. user@yourdomain.com. You’ll also want to [...]

UAA HD Audio Driver Missing, Can’t Update

This issues can be caused by an accidental uninstall of the HD Audio drivers, or a bad install of the HD Audio drivers. Our fix is as follows.

Putting the finishing touches on Monster Photography

Today we’re putting the finishing touches on our good friend Mike’s website. He’s a photographer currently located in Antioch Ca. The pictures may be a bit racy, but the site is beautifully built, with tons of trick features and a beautiful gallery setup. The site is still a little buggy, but we’ve released it early [...]

Toshiba Satellite 1800 laptop, the display is blank but works when hooked up to an external monitor.

Here’s a question we recently received. My Toshiba Satellite 1800 laptop display is blank but it works when hooked up to an external monitor. There’s any number of things that could cause this issue. So we’ll try to cover everything we think would cause this issue. 1. The first question we’d ask is, was the [...]

No USB After Bios Update, Intel Desktop Board D845GVSR

After updating to the newest bios on the Intel Desktop Board D845GVSR, we lost our USB. The problem was that the CMOS map was changed to include the “USB Enable/Disable” function. In order to get back your USB, you must use the procedure listed below. 1. Shut down the computer safely and remove the chassis [...]

After I Uninstall Norton 360 I Can Ping Websites, But Not Browse The Web

I’ve never been a big fan of Norton. Their products always seem to slow systems down, and seem to cause more problems then they resolve. This system was no different. Norton 360 had been uninstalled through add remove programs. Norton ended up leaving bits and pieces of itself all over the computer. Which left the [...]

“Help and Support” is missing after you upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

After you upgrade a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Help and Support is missing when you click Start. Additionally, the Help menu is missing in programs that are running on the Windows Server 2003 SP2-based computer. Additionally, when you type msinfo32.exe or Helpctr.exe at a command [...]