All the troubles with Windows 8
If you use Windows OS, especially Windows 10, you need to create a system restore point when your system is working perfectly so you can restore to that condition when something causes the system fail to boot which happens often with Windows 10 lengthy bad updates. Go to Control Panel/System and Security/System. Select System Protection, […]
My Windows 7 turned my SD and MicroSD’s DCIM folders to DCIM.exe and hid all my images and videos every time I plugged them in. It turned out that there was a Trojan virus that hide all the folders and rename the any folders to with extension “.exe”. All we need to do is to […]
Since I installed Mac OS X El Capitan on my laptop, I seldom used Windows 10. The other day, I had to use it for some tutorials with Windows and it updated itself then hung the computer. Turned off the power and the HP blue screen came up with the message “Your PC ran into […]
Sometimes we load a page and it became extremely unresponsive, and a pop up with Aw snap, Kill or Wait message. After Googling the problem, by resetting the “Use hardware acceleration when available” in the “settings/advanced settings” seems to fix the problem. Just unchecked the box, click restart link. If we still want to use the option, re-check […]
If you dual boot Windows and Mac OS X, sometimes, you will encounter an error when emptying the trash bin in Mac. The file that cause the problem is fseventsd-uuid from Windows. The only way to fix it is to boot to Windows and run disk repair or chkdsk. When it’s done, boot back to […]
There are many ways to dual boot Windows and Mac OS X with different boot loaders on MBR but for UEFI, there’s only Clover boot loader is capable if you set it up correctly. In order to dual boot with Clover by default, you need to install Clover to EFI folder –> rename bootmgfw.efi to bootmgfw-orig.efi in […]
So, just like everyone else who disklike the Windows 8.1, I couldn’t wait to upgrade my laptop to Windows 10 (it’s just like a hopeful life line for Windows OS). Anyhow, I had to reserve the Windows 10 because there are some software prevent the Windows 8.1 to update – and without the full system […]
If you have dual boot set up for Windows (8.1) and Mac OS X (Yosemite) on the same computer (laptop), you may notice the time of Windows is different from the time display in Mac or vice versa. Most PC or Windows Laptop, the time was set to Windows registry. If we want both have […]
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