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Hosted Appliance or Web server behind Comcast Cisco modem (Loopback issue) Solved

Recently I moved my office from one location to another.  The prior location had a Comcast SMC modem,  and I was hosting my Turbo Meeting  Appliance in-house.  A-records were entered for my new IP address for my new location at

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1-800-208-0798 Virus Pop UP Scam Command Promt at Login c:\windows\system32 Ransome

I wrote about this scam many months ago to warn people when AOneTechSquad.com first started calling random people who fell for the scam.  At that time they were putting a password on the computers after they gained remote access.  They have

Posted in Computers, Fraud, Laptop/Notebook, Software, Virus/Malware

Outlook scanpst.exe Locations

The location of scanpst.exe depends on your version of Outlook and whether or not you are using a 64-bit version of Windows. When using 2002/XP or 2003, then the location also depends on your installed language of Office; <locale ID>.

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Change Windows 10 Default Web Browser

In the search field type: default browser and hit Enter. Or just click Choose a default browser from the top of the search results. That brings you to Settings > System > Default apps and the Web browser option is already

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Email Suddenly Not Arriving in Gmail, Virus Sent Mail to All My Freiends, Now I Can’t Receive Mail When Logged into Gmail, Resolved, Quick Fix

Login to your Gmail account then go to Settings, right corner where the gear is.     Then go to Filters and make sure there are none.  Delete all you see.  Normally the Virus that causes this behavior sets it

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HP EliteBook 8440p Screen Won’t Come Out Of Sleep Mode, RESOLVED

HP EliteBook 8440p screen will go to sleep while you are working on the laptop and won’t wake back up, even if you try to press keys or move the mouse.  This is a well known problem with this particular HP product. In other forums, people

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Windows 7 64 bit Drivers for HP Pavilion 500-046 AMD USB

Follow the link below to get drivers for SM Bus Controller and Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool First Install Catalyst , then under driver version amd-catalyst-omega-14.12 follow this http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows%208%20-%2032 to get Chipset Drivers Windows 7 64 bit.

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Outlook 2007 Email Setup MSN.com, Live.com, Hotmail.com, Outlook.com

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24677 Outlook Connector and install it.  Then Open Outlook, put your name, email, and password in the boxes.  When you are asked to use POP, Exchange, or Other; choose Other and scroll to Outlook Connector.  Enter Name, Username

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Windows Vista Servive Pack 1 SP1 SP2 Link to Download

Site to Download: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/service-packs-download#sptabs=vista

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This computer is configured to require a password in order to start up

  When you get scammers calling claiming to be from Microsoft and they want access to your computer to fix a virus, they really are not from Microsoft. They will tell you that your computer has somehow contacted them and that

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