This is being used for what I would consider "light office work," the user is my father and he's a self-employed CPA. So, the majority of tasks are Word/Excel, Chrome, Quickbooks, and his dedicated ...

Troubleshooting an overheating laptop CPU is a task that requires you to know enough about computers that you will not damage the laptop when you open it up. Otherwise, you will likely do more harm ...

You can complete about as much work on a computer that gets stuck in standby as you can on one that won't boot at all. To work your way past these kinds of operating problems, you need to diagnose ...

This is the first time I am trying to figure out what is wrong with an older PC.<BR>I have built PC's but that one is a 5 year old system I purchased. <BR><BR>It all started approximately 2 months ago ...

In this IT tale, a techie lands his first job working at a support center -- and learns to really listen to what a caller is saying Back in the mid-’90s, I worked at a support center for a line of ...

The NTOSKRNL.exe file is a kernel image responsible for various system-based processes, including hardware virtualization, Process Management, and Memory Management. Among these, it is also ...

Component Object Model or COM is a medium to enable communication between 2 processes or apps. It allows developers to create objects, a.k.a. COM objects (handles processing images, videos, and other ...