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Entries from August 2008

Overcoming Windows crashes and the Blue Screen of Death

Date August 22, 2008

It’s hard not to panic when Windows dumps the mysterious blue screen in your face. It doesn’t happen often, in my experience, but when blue screens rear their annoying heads and other vexing issues arise there a few steps one should apply to restore their PC’s health and one’s sanity. Many users have been confronted [...]

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How to revitalize an aging notebook or laptop

Date August 2, 2008

I can still recall my first notebook like it was yesterday. Itwas a clunky, behemoth affair, with a 486 CPU and 32 megabytesof memory; Windows 3.1 made the notebook’s hardware come alive,and, of course, crash at the worst possible moment (when is anopportune time for a system crash, anyway?). External storagewas limited to floppy diskettes—unreliable [...]

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