How to delete print jobs that are stuck in your print queue.
We are asked this question all the time – How do you clear a stuck print job? It happens to everyone that prints. You send a print job and it never prints, you try to delete it and it just says “deleting”, you try restarting the computer and still nothing. This problem first showed up in Windows XP but it still happens in Vista and Win7 so it’s not a new problem, and it happens on laser as well as ink printers. We are about to show you why this happens and how to clear the print jobs out. Read more
How to make a bootable USB thumb drive toolkit.
Filed under: Computer Tips & Techniques, Useful Software Programs
Do you do virus removal for friends and relatives? Would you like to have a great collection of malware removal and diagnostics tools that’s easy to carry. We are about to show you how to make a bootable USB flash drive with Mini WinXP and the HirenCD that has anti-virus/Malware apps, drive recovery apps, network diagnostics programs and many other useful programs. Everyone that does computer troubleshooting and support needs a flash drive like this. Read more
Acronis Drive Monitor – Free Utility
Filed under: Computer Tips & Techniques, Useful Software Programs
We all have valuable data on our hard drives, whether it’s pictures, financial data, word processing files or just assorted things. Hard drives in today’s machines are lasting longer and longer but the sizes are getting bigger and bigger so you can loose much more information if one fails. Wouldn’t it be nice to know ahead of time that your hard drive was having problems and may be about to fail? Read more
