the boomer live

Microsoft in another display of incompetent (greedy) management has discontinued the family pack upgrade (3 installs) of the new Windows 7 operating system for $155.  This morning I was going to buy the family pack to upgrade our computers.  One to replace Vista, which was another piece of MS incompetence, the other 2 have XP, [...]

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The last couple of Quicktime upgrades have offered to download Safari for me, with the acceptance box already checked.  This really aggravates me.  I though Apple was above these sort of "tricks".  They are probably trying to get their user numbers for Safari on Windows up.  I also got stuck with Pictureviewer (part of Quicktime [...]

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Vicki’s computer started getting the blue screen of death with the warning kernel_date_inpage_error last week.  The notes on the page indicated that it could be one of the following problems, memory could be going bad, bad disk sector, or a recent software download.   The ‘puter is 3 years old so I suspected a disk drive [...]

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Perish the thought, but if a catastrophe happens, fire, hurricane, flood, theft or something else that causes the loss of your home or the items in it….do you have an inventory of the contents of your home for the insurance company?  No, neither do we.  We did a video a few years ago in [...]

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Ever not been able to play a video file with Windows Media Player ?  We use VLC media player as a back up to windows media player, it comes with codecs to play most video files.  When a file won’t play in windows media player we just open VLC and it plays!   Its free, and [...]

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Most computers come bundled with either McAfee or Norton Antivirus software preinstalled.  The idea is that you will use the free trial and then sign up for the annual service…..and they have you hooked forever!  My experience with these two programs is that they are bloated system hogs,  and often cause conflicts, especially  when you [...]

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