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  • Issue A user is getting error when trying to export his emails via Google “Download you Data” feature. My Account > Personal Info and Privacy > Control your Content > Create Archive. Downloading your data is disabled.Downloading your data has…

  • Issue QuickBooks bills get always printer with the right side cut off. It seems that it is trying to use too small margin on the right hand side and printer (Ricoh Aficio MP 2550) can’t handle it…

  • Pretty typical home user disaster situation – accidentally overwritten Microsoft Word (.docx) file that user has been working on for a few months! Basically somehow he managed to delete over 20 pages of text and then click “Save”. Obviously no backups,…

  • Issue Cannot start IIS 10 site on Windows 10 Pro. Following error message is displayed when trying to start the website: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)

  • Follow these step-by-step instructions to get a free Google Maps Distance Matrix API key to be used with Pebble Traffic and Weather watchface. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/distance_matrix_backend and login with your google/gmail account Click Create project

  • Support forum Pebble watch face page Instruction for obtaining Google Maps API Key Subscribe to receive updates about new features  

  • There are few different ways you can move installed games from one hard drive to another without having to re-download them. The method I used involves manually moving the game folder to a new location and then creating NTFS Directory Junction…

  • Issue TomTom MyDrive Connect gets stuck while installing updates for TomTom GO 500. The SatNav displays message “Keep your device connected. The update will resume in a few moments“. However, regardless of how long you wait, the update never resumes.  …

  • Issue Following error is displayed when trying to open files stored on Mac’s disk using Windows 10 running in Parallels. Error appears regardless of whether Coherence mode is enabled or not.

  • Here is a little PHP script that I use to backup MySQL databases on Hostgator Linux web servers. Simply save the .php file to a non publicly accessible part of the server and run regularly using crontab: /usr/bin/php /home4/username/my-backups/site-name/backup-task.php <?php$DATABASE=”db_name”;$DBUSER=”db_user”;$DBPASSWD=”db_password”;$PATH=”/home4/username/my-backups/site-name/”;$FILE_NAME=”site-name-backup-“…

  • Issue Cannot enable full phone encryption on LG G4 (Android 6.0). After enabling encryption in Settings > General > Security > Encrypt Phone, the smartphone restarts, but encryption remains disabled. Resolution

  • Issue Users accessing Internet via Draytek Vigor 2820 router occasionally get following message in their browsers and can not longer access Internet: You have reached the maximum number of permitted Internet session.Please close one or more application to allow further Internet…