What Do You Do with Your Old PCs? (Survey Results)
Results of PC Pitstop’s August 2012 Survey are in…
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October 2012
7 Ways to Troubleshoot PC Sound Issues
You turn on your computer with the intention to listen to some great music or to a watch a super hit movie of the latest release, but suddenly your hope starts to fade away as you realize your computer is not producing any sound! Well, this can happen occasionally and there could be several reasons why this would happen. If you have the patience and a little bit of basic knowledge on computer repair and troubleshooting, often you can fix this sort of problem on your own.
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Create clear, iconic illustrations in PowerPoint
How to choose clip art that won’t look silly and how to modify it to make your point clear.
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Selecting Sentences in Word
The following macro, StepRightSentence, provides the capability to step through a document one sentence at a time toward the right.
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Shorten ZIP Codes in Excel
If you are an Excel worksheet that contains address information, you may want to convert nine-digit ZIP Codes to their five-digit equivalent.
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Fixing the 5 Most Annoying Printer Problems
Five problems and solutions to the most common printer related issues.
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SD Memory Card Not Recognized When Inserted into PC
I had a question recently about a flash drive problem. Well, it wasn’t really a flash drive — it was an SD card from a camera… but the symptoms and the procedures are the same.
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Facts and Rumors About Windows 8
Windows 8 is coming to market on October 26, and Microsoft is doing all it can to urge users to upgrade to its radically new operating system.
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7 Ways to Troubleshoot Your WiFi Connection
This how-to guide goes through a number of well-known and some not so well-known methods for troubleshooting your wireless connectivity issues.
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Preventing zero-day virus threats
Microsoft’s EMET app can help fight off an attack until there’s a patch.
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