Computer Aid

Sep 27

reprap: how to photocopy your own photocopier! -

I stumbled across this amazing site: RepRap

Its basically a machine that can currently create 60% of its own parts (In a manner of speaking: a photocopier that can almost photocopy itself)

Sep 26

microsoft feeds synchronization has encountered a problem -

After doing an XP repair install, I started getting this error:

microsoft feeds synchronization has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I eventually found…

Sep 23

Beware the quiet infections -

I’ve recently cloned a few drives for customers who have upgraded their computers via Computer Aid.

The process is simple enough: Clone the hard drive to the drive in the new computer, then a…

Sep 20

Error 1311. File not found: d:\sku011.cab -

I was installing Microsoft Office 2007 on a computer, and part way through the install, I get:

Error 1311. File not found d:\sku011.cab

Hmmm… I haven’t had this problem installing office before…

Sep 16

WiFi (802.11G/N) signal strength -

WiFi is such a strange beast to work with.

I recently had a customer in a high-set house, who would have the internet dropout fairly often.

The setup was: adsl modem connected to a netgear WGR614…

Sep 13

McAfee security suite – unknown computer detected -

I was diagnosing an intermittent WiFi fault with a laptop, when the company general manager wanders in and asks if I’m doing anything on the network.

I say, yes, I’ve put a new WiFi adapter in the…

Sep 11

How reliable are internal laptop WiFi cards? -

I’ve started noticing a interesting trend: the built-in WiFi in laptops seems to break quite often.

Whats worse, is the failure seems to be either intermittant, or causes hardware timeouts…

Sep 08

how to connect a monitor / ADSL modem, correctly -

I’ve seen this happen a few times:

Someone gets a new monitor / video card / ADSL modem, and they also get a confusing (ie more than 2) number of cables.

So, if you don’t know much about…

Sep 05

Fast video cards: watch your power supply. -

This PC had many problems. On the surface, it should have been quite reliable:

But it would often crash, generate BSODs,…

Sep 01

PC Maintenance Tips To Help Prevent Computer Problems -

Wouldn’t it be great if your computer was programmed to perform preventive maintenance on its own? This would automatically prevent various computer problems and increase the efficiency and life of…