How to Fix MBR in Windows XP and Vista So you can boot your OS What is the MBR? MBR stands for Master Boot Record and it’s the first sector of your hard drive that basically tells the BIOS where to look for the operating system on your computer. If, for any reason, the MBR becomes damaged or corrupt, then the operating system will be unable to load. You will normally see error messages like:...

Fix “Windows was unable to find a certificate to log you on to the network” Save yourself 30 minutes I recently bought a new Linksys wireless router and after setting it up with basic WEP security, I tried to logon from my laptop and was successful! Not very exciting, eh? So then I tried to connect from my desktop computer that has a wireless USB adapter attached to it and I ended up getting this error message:...

Recover BIOS/CMOS Password using CMOSPwd The complex process explained in detail As an IT administrator for the last several years, there are some occasions where I go a little overboard with security and do things to lock myself out of a computer. One example is to set a BIOS or CMOS password that I will never remember. If you can’t remember a BIOS or CMOS password, you’re pretty screwed because you won’t be able to even boot up Windows....

How to Fix Microsoft Office Error 25090 Aka when you’ve installed Office twice Working in a corporate environment as an IT support technician always means you’ll end up dealing with weird problems that would never occur on a normal consumer PC. Why? Well, it’s because weird stuff can occur when you have 20 people using one computer! One such error I ran across recently was while using Microsoft Office 2007 on a client machine....

Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection Without a Password A quick way to kill this resource hog If you work in a corporate environment, you and your computer may be the unsuspecting victim of a terrible piece of software from Symantec called Endpoint Protection. It’s a giant behemoth of a program that includes anti-spyware, anti-virus, network threat detection, and all kinds of other super security crap. I certainly do understand the need for these programs and I use them myself, but Endpoint Protection is a resource hog of enormous proportions....