06/18/13
Get Rid of Ants in the Yard Without Poison
Ok so this is not a Tech thing.
You can easily remove / kill ants from your yard without using poisons.
I like this idea as we have pets that could stray into the poison.
And, it is inexpensive too.
03/26/13
Stop Look Listen and Feel for Hardware Diagnostics
© designjetparts.com 3/26/2013
Stop, Ask, Look and Listen
Hardware problems can be tricky to pin down and diagnose, but not as daunting a task as some techs fear.
Stop.
When you walk in, stop, take a breath and settle yourself. When you are distracted or rushed you will miss details that matter. Also you have to get your mind right, not on your last task or your next task or anything else. Center yourself and be in the moment. As was drilled into my head, it is not the task at hand that kills you, but the one before that does you in.
You have to be right here, right now to work effectively.
06/21/12
Don't Be A Bot
© designjetparts.com 6/21/2012
Bot Nets. Are you a bot?
You might be a bot and never know it.
Your computer could be infected with a spyware or other malicious software that makes you a bot.
Bots are commanded to travel the internet and conduct DoS attacks (Denial of Service), scrape websites for email and phone numbers, perform php injection attacks against websites (attempting to hack and change the coding on a webpage).
Your computer could be actively seeking information to aid an identity thief to steal information and credit card numbers from unsuspecting people.
Bots collect information and then, without your knowledge, transmit that information to the writer of the bot.
Activities that you would not normally, actively participate in, nor approve of.
If you are a bot, like I said, you might never discover that you are. You would need to employ network-monitoring software, and then you would have to notice the excessive activity when you are not surfing the net. You might suddenly start getting returned emails that you did not send. In a worse case scenario your ISP might shut you off.
02/23/12
Delete a File When Access is Denied
If you have ever tried to remove a virus or spyware manually you may have seen this condition on a Windows based PC, laptop or server.
When you attempt to delete a file Windows denies you access because the file is in use by another program.
There is a way to delete the culprit.
Lets say for instance you need to delete a file called spyware.exe.
But try as you may Windows says the file is in use and denies the delete.
01/25/12
Hang Up To Virus Removal Windows 7
© Computer Care 1/25/2012
We recently had an interesting virus removal problem come in.
Customer had an off the shelf computer by one of the big computer manufacturers, and it was one month out of warranty.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.
The customer had let the trial version of McAfee anti-virus expire, it was still functioning but no longer updating to the latest virus definitions.
The customer had picked up one of the fake Windows Virus Removal malware’s.
(The ones that pop up and tell you that you have infections and if you click here for $49.95 they can remove them) It disabled access to programs and the internet.
12/22/11
Restore or Disable Mouse Pad Tap to Click
Link: http://www.computercareonline.com
© Computer Care 12/22/2011
To enable or disable touch pad tap to click.
Tap to click is the ability to tap your finger on the surface of your laptop’s touch pad and select the item your cursor is on. In other words, tap your finger and have your laptop respond as if you had clicked the left mouse button.
By default most laptops have this feature enabled out of the box. It worked that way the first time you started your laptop. Over time or by accident somehow this feature became disabled and you would like to have it back.
07/11/11
Tell Tale PC Symptoms
Link: http://www.computercareonline.com
Tell Tale PC Symptoms
© designjetparts.com 07/11/2011
Here are some simple and almost always true rules about PC problems.
If your PC boots to the desktop but then restarts, and constantly restarts over and over.
Most often it is a bad or weak power supply. Sometimes it can also be a failed peripheral device such as a secondary hard drive, CD / DVD rom drive or another device that connects to the power supply with a 4 pin plug.
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