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Jan 13 at 1:13pm | 0 comments

How to stop HP Photosmart Essentials from automatically starting whenever I plug in my iPhone.

Nov 22 at 3:50pm | 0 comments

Running Win7 and everytime I plug in my iPhone, darn HP PhotoEssentials starts up looking for pictures. I found how to turn off auto play for certain devices.

Win7 upgrade from Vista stuck at 40%

Dec 25 at 1:07am | 0 comments

Oh my goodness. I finally took the plunge and opted to upgrade my Vista Ultimate Dell 9200 box to Win 7. I had sooo many programs on it that I opted to do an upgrade versus a clean install. Everything went well until we get to the step of 'Transferring files, settings, programs' and it just halted there at 40% for hours.

Thanks Heavens for the others that had similar issues and posted their resolution (Hint: INTEL RAID drivers). There were many people that said to do a clean install and use the Windows Easy Transfer but I wanted to keep my apps running.

Enable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows 7 or Vista

Dec 22 at 11:29am | 0 comments

Wanted to re-enable the hidden admin account.

Allow Outlook Pst to Grow or Not Grow

Dec 04 at 8:32am | 0 comments

Win7/W2008 start menu location

Aug 08 at 9:20am | 0 comments

Back in the xp days, your start menu was located in C:\Documents and Settings\MyName\Start Menu. Now in windows 7 and Windows 2008, it is more obscure.

Remove/delete old printer driver from Win7

Dec 25 at 12:47am | 0 comments

I had an old laser jet printer HP 2200 that I had discarded and while the printer was gone, windows update kept prompting me for an update to the driver. I just wanted it to go away.

Temporarily disable Microsoft Security Essentials

Dec 25 at 12:42am | 0 comments

I needed to install a program that may have had issues due to the virus checker.

It wasn't obvious to me how to temporarily turn it off