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  • Issue Sony VAIO laptop keeps displaying spinning circle mouse pointer. This happens every 10-15 seconds and lasts 5 seconds or so. Cause This doesn’t seem to affect computer performance too much, but it could be because was a a hi-spec…

  • Issue A website goes dark is user clicks anywhere on the web page. Only affects Internet Explorer 9 users (IE 10 maybe affected as well, but it is still in beta haven’t been tested). Cause Website used Lightbox 2 to…

  • Plex Media Center has 10 foot interface and can be fully controlled with a remote. However, with some setups, on-screen virtual keyboard may not respond to arrow key presses on a remote making it impossible to enter any text without…

  • This morning all computers running Sophos Antivirus reported various files as infected with SHH/Updater-B virus. This was a clear false positive and Sophos promptly issued a fix in detection updates released 19 Sep 21:32. Unfortunately most of the affected systems…

  • Enter distance driven and amount of fuel used to find out fuel consumption in the following units:  

  • Use this fuel consumption calculator to convert between following units:  

  • Issue Users can’t access their computers via Remote Web Workplace on an Windows Small Business Server 2008. Following error is displayed:   VBScript: Remote Desktop DisconnectedAnd internal error has occurred (error 50331588). For more information, please contact your network administrator…

  • HTPC Zotac H55-ITX-C WiFi Core i3 640 (3.06GHz) CPU 4GB Corsair RAM (DDR3 1333Mhz) Windows 7 64 bit OS BlackGold BGT3600 TV tuner Issue HTPC doesn’t come back from Sleep mode. Computer turns on, but only black screen is displayed.…

  • Google Chrome browser updates automatically and these updates pretty non intrusive. There may be situations though, when you want auto-update feature to be disabled completely. There is no nice and easy option to disable them, but it can be achieved…

  • A company had a singe APC Smart-UPS 1500 device connected to a Windows Server 2008. They also had a Windows Server 2003 and wanted both servers to be properly shutdown In an event of power failure. APC PowerChute Agent normally…

  • Oracle VM VirtualBox can open VMware native virtual machine hard drive files in .vmdk format. This doesn’t work other way around though – WMware can’t open VirtualBox .vdi files. If you have Oracle VirtualBox installed you can easily convert .vdi…

  • Issue Trying to run Linux based OS on Oracle VM VirtualBox. Following error is displayed: