99 Ways to Make Your Computer Blazingly Fast

99 Ways to Make Your Computer Blazingly Fast Squeeze the last bit of juice from your old or new PC Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, a Network Administrator, and a Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows 10....

October 16, 2017 · 12 min · 2538 words · Mr. Christopher Vasquez

What is Msmpeng.exe and Should You Remove It?

What is Msmpeng.exe and Should You Remove It? The good news it’s not malware or spyware Has your CPU been at 100% utilization lately? If you went to the Task Manager in Windows and looked at your processes tab, you may have noticed a process calledmsmpeng.exeeating up all your available CPU. So what is msmpeng.exe and how can you prevent it from slowing your system down? Well, unlike what you may have read elsewhere, it is not spyware or malware....

October 16, 2017 · 4 min · 788 words · William Norton

5 Tools to Convert BIN Files to ISO Images

5 Tools to Convert BIN Files to ISO Images A few free options to try first Recently, I downloaded some IT software on my Windows PC and the files were all .BIN and .CUE files. In order to work with them, I needed to convert the BIN files to ISO images and mount them as a drive. In this article, I’m going to mention a couple of free and paid utilities you can use to convert from one format to the other....

October 13, 2017 · 4 min · 842 words · Sally Browning

4 Great Tools to Create Windows Installer Packages

4 Great Tools to Create Windows Installer Packages For those of us that don’t have the $ for InstallShield I’ve written a fair amount of code in my IT career and released a good number of Windows programs also, so a good tool to create Windows installer packages was always key. Each program would have a different set of needs, such as scripts, DLLs, security settings, etc., so one tool that could handle a complex set of requirements was necessary....

October 12, 2017 · 5 min · 862 words · Daniel Boyd

How to Connect to a Remote Registry in Windows 7 and 10

How to Connect to a Remote Registry in Windows 7 and 10 But first there are a few prerequisites If you’re in a small business environment, it can become really annoying if you have to walk out to each computer that you need to fix. Instead, if you can remotely connect and fix problems or adjust settings, it makes things a lot more convenient. Though it’s less common, there are times when you might need to connect to another computer to change, delete or add registry keys and values....

October 3, 2017 · 4 min · 818 words · Benjamin Gardner
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