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Windows Media Center Guide Listings Not Updating

Posted by Markus in Tuesday, February 7th 2017   
Topics: Windows Media Center    
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Recently, both my Windows 7 computers with Media Center on them stopped updating the TV listings correctly. I found out that Windows media Center has a warning system: if you have less than three days of TV listings you will get a pop-up box that tells you that: that’s a good feature. The first thing […]

Windows Media Player Causing CPU to Max at 100%

Posted by Markus in Sunday, May 3rd 2015   
Topics: Windows Media Center    
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Suddenly my computer was impossibly slow, my recorded shows were stilted and out of sync. I checked task manager and my CPU usage was 100%. The first thing is to evaluate if there is something that has recently changed on the computer, and I had just added a 5 Tb USB WD Elements HD to […]

Acronis True Image Makes Replacing a Hard Drive Easy

Posted by Markus in Monday, December 22nd 2014   
Topics: Building and Maintaining Computers    
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Oh no, my computer is sick. I’ve run malware, anti-virus and defrag tools but something is dramatically slowing my computer down. I schedule checkdsk to run the next time I reboot, and guess what, it wont run.   So I run pre-boot assessment on my Dell laptop, and get the dreaded 0142 error message – hard […]

Dell Computer’s Built-in Hardware Testing

Posted by Markus in Monday, December 22nd 2014   
Topics: Building and Maintaining Computers    
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When my computer started taking forever to change screens I first did a Malware Bytes scan and then a complete anti-virus scan, then I ran disk defrag. There was no improvement and these processes took way longer than they used to do. I next looked for possible hardware issues. I set up my drive which […]

2a Visual Basic 2010 – Working With Toolbars – Making Toolbar Buttons Larger

Posted by Markus in Monday, December 8th 2014   
Topics: Visual Basic 2010 Tutorial    
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Toolbars are made relatively easy with VB.Net.  They are just another control you add to the form. The normal place for a tool bar is just under the menu bars. Once you add the toolbar you can click on it and you will see a generic button appear. Once you give it a name or […]

8 Visual Basic 2010 – Visual Basic Express 2010 Data Development with SQL Server Express

Posted by Markus in Wednesday, November 26th 2014   
Topics: Visual Basic 2010 Tutorial    
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Visual Studio Express Tools are the limited but free versions of the Microsoft IDE. One of their limitations is the lack of database server tools. Whereas the paid versions of these tools let you connect to SQL Server this tool only intrinsically connects to Access databases, SQL Server files or SQL Server Compact files. SQL […]

UPS Account Information Error in PayPal When Shipping With Ebay

Posted by Markus in Friday, November 14th 2014   
Topics: Uncategorized    
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I occasionally sell items on Ebay and give customers the option of USPS or UPS. Someone just purchased an item and chose UPS but when I went to purchase the shipping in Paypal I got an error message that the account information for UPS did not match the UPS information for me on file at […]

Windows 7 Jitter – Getting Smooth Audio and Video – Revised – CCCP Works Wonders

Posted by Markus in Tuesday, May 6th 2014   
Topics: Windows, Windows Media Center    
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A while back I wrote about jitter in Windows where the video doesn’t play smoothly.  At the time I was able to resolve the problem for at least a little while by turning off hardware acceleration. But the fix didn’t last. So here it is a while later and I am having major problems with […]

Executing Commands Using Secure Shell

Posted by Markus in Wednesday, February 19th 2014   
Topics: Web Development    
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Sometimes, inexplicably it might seem, a program for your website may tell you that you need to run a command on the Web Host’s server. You may be asked to use SSH (Secure Shell) to accomplish this task.  I was recently advised that I needed to perform a command on the server to let a […]

1and1 Hosting Mobile Web Site Builder

Posted by Markus in Wednesday, February 19th 2014   
Topics: Web Development    
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  In my previous post I give a quick and dirty overview of mobile web site design today and it really is a challenge to put together a strategy because there are so many mobile devices out there with so many different capabilities. 1and1 offers both access to Adobe Dreamweaver and its own Mobile Web […]

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