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XP SP-3, HP/Compaq and AMD processor issues

October 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have been getting more than a few emails and phone calls asking if I recommend installing XP’s Service Pack 3. Well, the truth is “sure, maybe!” I have installed it on all machines for my “Home” customers for the last several months with no issues and since the middle of September on most of [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Software

I’m a PC too!

September 19th, 2008 · Comments Off

Good ad Microsoft!

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Tags: Software

CHEAP SOFTWARE SCAMS

December 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

Welcome to another edition of The Weekly Geek. This week I want to keep it short, so let’s get straight to the material. Since many of you will be buying a new computer for Christmas, the first thing you will want to do is add some software program(s) that you did not get. Please only [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Malware · Purchasing · Security · Soap Box · Software

Printer drivers and the unexpected results

October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and a great big welcome to The Weekly Geek! As regular readers know, July 2006 Microsoft officially quit supporting updates for Windows 98 and ME. To their credit, you can still get the updates created up to that point. Now what happened in the printer market was a little quieter. Last [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Soap Box · Software

SPAM 2.0 lesson’s in stopping it.

October 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

Welcome back to The Weekly Geek. In this fact filled adventure of SPAM 2.0 I plan on walking you through several available SPAM software filtering programs. In our previous edition I went over basic preventive measures. The unfortunate fact is no matter how careful you are someway, somewhere, somehow you are going to end up [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Security · Software