Monthly Archives: July 2008

Problem: You try to play a DVD movie or try to run some other disc and nothing happens. The drive spins and seems to work but Windows does nothing. You look into My Computer and the drive is missing there. You look into the device manager and see the device but it has a warning. […]
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Problem:You suddenly and inexplicably cannot send or delete some mail from your outbox. Fix: Apply a Microsoft update to Windows Mail to fix the problem THE 32-BIT METHOD: Ensure that you are running 32-bit Windows Vista. Download the 32-bit version of the update (Clicky). Apply the update. Restart the computer. THE 64-BIT METHOD: Ensure that […]
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So a client brought in their computer to my repair shop and it was a Mac. Now we don’t get many of these in for repair so I screamed in surprise and after the customer left (I had to convince him that the scream was a nasty oversight on my part and would NOT happen […]
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Good day to you all. I hope things are treating you okay today. ;) Problem: Windows boots normally and you hit the logon page. You click on one of the accounts and it starts to log in, you see a flash of your desktop wallpaper and then you’re logged back out again. This happens for […]
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For all those suckers who encountered this problem and reformatted their computer…this ones for you. Problem: You install Windows XP Service Pack 3 and upon reboot you’re faced a with a BSOD saying: “SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED.” You can’t boot into windows. Fix: You need to boot into safe mode and change an HKLM registry key. THE FIRST […]
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This one was apparently fixed by Microsoft a while ago but in case you run into something similar it’s helpful. It will work on any problem where an update has hijacked the screen with an “Update in progress” type of message and won’t let you finish booting windows. This fix will clear that bad update. […]
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