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Welcome back!This laptop has the most infuriating behavior problem. Any clues how to repair it are welcome (note: replacing it is out of the question without substantial donations to finance said replacement)

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After the recent fiasco with Avast! getting a bad update and swamping people with hundreds, or even thousands, of false positives I got to thinking that I got off pretty easy in that mess. I had allowed Avast to start a boot time scan [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads It’s that time of year again. With the arrival of September I figure it’s time to make sure that the old wishlist is up to date and in good working order since this means that Christmas is only a few short months away.
It also means that it’s time to put [...]

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I seriously doubt the FCC’s ability to enforce much of anything but at least it’s a start. For example take [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads You’d think that it’d be the dead-simplest thing in the world. You set your computer’s BIOS to boot from a USB device, plug in a flash drive with the OS you’d like to boot from on it and restart the computer.
Funny thing is that it isn’t that simple. I [...]