PC Memoirs

You may have read my post about Handy Backup last year. Handy Backup is an award winning backup data backup and synchronization software for home and small to medium business environments. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 and 2008/2003 Servers. With this program, you can save all your important files, settings and even Windows registry to your hard [...]

My friend Mitch came by today with a really bad computer problem. His Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop wouldn’t start and the screen was completely blank. I suggested that we try to load it in Safe Mode, but that didn’t help. When I pressed F8, the screen was still blank. All I could see was the [...]

I had to solve the same problem in two Toshiba laptops today. A friend called and explained that his kids’ laptops couldn’t connect to the Internet through a wireless broadband connection and the logon process took minutes to complete. It was weird that both of them had the same problem…
Once Windows Vista Home Edition loaded, some errors appeared, [...]

Few days ago I helped my friend install Windows 7 Ultimate. Since he bought a brand new 1TB Sata hard drive, he had to do a clean install. The Windows installation completed quickly and without any problems. All the drivers were installed and everything worked correctly. However, some new partition settings caused a problem and [...]

Few days ago I experienced my first Windows 7 problem. My dad’s Toshiba L300 laptop, which was upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 recently, suddenly started showing the Blue Screen Of Death. It appeared randomly and all I could see before the laptop restarted was the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT message. The error code that followed was 0×0000004E. 
I could see no [...]