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How to Import Bookmarks to Chrome

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When you are using other web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or others, you might have bookmarked certain websites or web pages for future reference or viewing. These bookmarks or Favorites are only available to the web browser that you are using when you did the bookmarking or adding to Favorites. That is, when you are using Firefox, all bookmarks are only present in your Firefox browser. The same thing is true when you are using other browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari, or others. It is good to know that… Read More

How to Reset Internet Explorer (IE Web Browser)

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Since Internet Explorer is intertwined or part of any Windows computers, most of the times, installation of Windows updates and any other system changes affect the behavior of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. Also, as you are using the IE browser, accumulated “temporary internet files” and installed plugins or add-ons cause IE to break and become utterly useless. In this case, the very first step to resolve the issue is to reset the IE settings back to defaults. Here are the steps: IE Reset: Option 1 (if IE still opens… Read More

How to Run Check Disk to Repair your Hard Disk Drive

How Tos Windows Tips

Sometimes your Windows may crash giving you a blue screen or it can just restart immediately without you doing anything in your computer. Windows can also be faulty in a sense that loading of files or opening certain programs can take too long than normal. In this case you can run a Check Disk on your hard disk drive to allow Windows to check the consistency of your hard disk drive and repair error automatically. Here are the procedures in a Windows 7 computer. Older versions of Windows like XP… Read More

(SOLVED) All contacts in Windows Live Mail are gone or not syncing

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Windows Live Mail

Consider this scenario: You have been using Windows Live Mail for quite a long time. Everything is working fine and you just loved it. After several months or even years of using it, you have accumulated a lot of email addresses or contacts in your Windows Live Mail.  Then suddenly a disaster happened. You opened Windows Live Mail one day and all your contacts are gone. You accessed your email account on the web and all contacts are intact there. But not in Windows Live Mail. Then you start blaming… Read More

(Solved) OneNote for Windows 10 (App) Crashes After Recent Windows Updates

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Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is a free software from Microsoft that is used by millions of Windows and Mac users for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. OneNote allows gathering and creating of users’ notes (both handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio materials. Notes can then be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. Using Microsoft OneDrive, a user’s notes can also be made accessible by syncing these notes in any compatible devices. Recently, with the release of several Microsoft Office Updates and Windows 8/10 Updates,… Read More

(SOLVED) Outlook 2013 or 2016 stopped working with error code 0x80004005

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Outlook Error Fix

This very annoying error has been reported several times from people who upgraded their version of Windows to the latest Windows 10, or to those who upgraded their MS Office to the latest 2013 or 2016 versions. In most cases, Outlook is able to send and receive emails just fine but the annoying error pops up every now and then. In other cases, Outlook is unable to send and/or receive due to the error. Other solutions include the following: Repairing the MS Office installation through Control Panel Downloading and installing… Read More

(SOLVED) Unable to Run or Open Any Programs in Windows XP, Vista or 7

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This happened to a lot of people already and is very annoying. When you open try to open your programs in your Windows computer, another program opens but then immediately produces an error message. To be specific, the file that you are trying to run are executable files with .exe file extension so when you double click to run the program, another and unknown program opens just to shoot an error message. Weird and annoying, isn’t it? This happens when an executable file (.exe file extension) are being mistakenly associated… Read More

(SOLVED) Fixing “You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile” Error in Windows 8, 8.1 or 10

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One of the most annoying and oftentimes most feared error message in the new Windows systems is the so called “Profile Error”. The error message itself is a bit scary specially among ordinary and novice computer users. The main reason why this scenario scared a lot of Windows users are: The computer is still usable but there are critical limitations.  Files from your original user profile are not accessible Files created will be deleted after signing out. The error message reads: You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile. You can’t… Read More

(SOLVED) No internet connection: One or more network protocols are missing

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No internet connection

This annoying scenario happened to a lot of people already and you are reading this article precisely because you might have experienced this problem as well. The computer is able to connect to the wired or wireless network, but then the status shows “No internet access”. And true enough, accessing any website gives you “Page cannot be displayed” or similar browser error messages. This problem happens due to several factors, including but not limited to the following: A certain “protocol” could really be missing. For instance, TCP/IP v4 could have been… Read More

(SOLVED) Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Error: Cannot create pages. Bad Record Index

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This is a software issue I encountered with a client which solution is worth sharing. The software involved here is the old Adobe PageMaker 6.5 installed in a Windows XP machine. SITUATION: In a Windows XP computer, Adobe PageMaker 6.5 was working well. All of a sudden, publications won’t print so the user decided to uninstall and then re-install. The printing problem persisted even after uninstalling and reinstalling PageMaker 6.5 three (3) times. Old publications print without any issues. But newly created publication won’t print.  Upon checking, the “Number of… Read More