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Tag Archives: Windows

Windows, Leopards, and Penguins

Monday, April 21, 2008

In mainstream computing the typical operating systems we hear about are Windows, Leopard, and Linux. There are several other operating systems that you may not have hear about: Sun Microsystems’ Solairs, IBM’s AIX, Amiga’s AmigaOS, SGI’s IRIX, Novell’s Netware to name a few. So how do you know which operating system to choose?

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Taskbar Not Responding

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

My work PC is apart of a domain. It’s running Windows XP SP2 with all updates critical and recommended as of today. It’s sporting a Intel Pentium D 3GHz processor with 1GB of RAM. It has a video card that shares some 128 RAM. After some idle time it goes into screensaver mode and [...]

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My top 10: Windows Users Must Have

Thursday, January 17, 2008

1. Valid Copy of Windows XP Pro
It is extremely important to have a valid copy of Windows XP because Microsoft provides software updates and patches. Updates provide additional functionality and fixes software minor bugs. Patches fix major bugs and patch up software holes that may allow bad people to exploit your computer. Why Pro? It [...]

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svchost.exe CPU 100%

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Is the process svchost.exe running your CPU to 100%?
Do you have Automatic Updates enabled?
It might be because of Windows Update.
Copy and paste the following into a text editor (NotePad) and save it with the extension of “.bat” and running it:

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