Limit Bandwidth on a Netgear Wireless Router

Limit Bandwidth on a Netgear Wireless Router There’s a handy built-in feature I recently bought a second wireless router for several reasons, but one was to control how my kids connect to the Internet. For one thing, I wanted to restrict just how much bandwidth they could use in a given period of time. After that, the Internet connection would cut off and they would have to ask me if they wanted to reconnect....

July 13, 2012 · 4 min · 707 words · Mark Torres

Download High Resolution Book Cover Art

Download High Resolution Book Cover Art Jazz up your e-reading experience For a lot of us, the rise in popularity (and availability) of eBooks has been a very good thing. Now it’s possible to hold an entire library of books in a package the size of a paperback, which is especially great for vacations and other trips. No longer do you need to decide which books to take along with you....

July 7, 2012 · 4 min · 678 words · Lisa Torres

Cleanup the WinSxS Folder in Windows 7/8/10

Cleanup the WinSxS Folder in Windows 7/8/10 A great way to save lots of space In Windows 7 and Windows 8/10, there is a new folder under C:\Windows calledWinSxS, which basically stores dll and component files. It also stores older versions of all dll and component files and can grow to be quite large. In addition to that, a lot of space is taken up by the backup folder, which gets really big after you install a Service Pack, like SP 1 for Windows 7....

July 6, 2012 · 4 min · 681 words · Gabriel Grant

MP3 Album Art Not Showing in Windows Explorer?

MP3 Album Art Not Showing in Windows Explorer? Here’s a few different ways you can fix it I have a lot of music on my computer and even though I don’t use it as my primary media player or organizer, it’s nice to have it work properly since I do end up using Windows Explorer or Windows Media Player every so often to browse files, etc. One annoying thing that I noticed was that my MP3 files wouldn’t display the album art in Explorer and in WMP....

July 5, 2012 · 4 min · 709 words · Tanya Howard

Fix COM Surrogate has stopped working in Windows 7

Fix COM Surrogate has stopped working in Windows 7 Error comes up only when searching videos or pictures A client of mine started having a strange problem when browsing pictures and videos on his Windows 7 PC: it would popup with the following error message: The odd thing was that the error only came up when browsing video or picture files, not any other type of file. After doing some research, we managed to fix the problem, but had to try a couple of different things before it finally worked....

July 3, 2012 · 4 min · 789 words · Daniel Hughes
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