Archive for December, 2014

Acronis True Image Makes Replacing a Hard Drive Easy

Posted by  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  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  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 […]