Have you ever been locked out of a Windows system by either a forgotten password or maybe someone left the company and wasn't kind enough to put the password on a sticky note on their monitor or under their keyboard? Well, I have a method for you that will help!...

Upgrading Your Old PC with SSD

by Spencer Heckathorn | March 21, 2022 | General Computing | 0 Comments

Videos coming soon! Most computers over a few years old will have a bottleneck surrounding their hard drive speed. Thankfully, an easy way to fix this problem is by upgrading your old spinning hard drive to a solid-state drive or SSD. In this post, I will outline the...

Check Space on Chromebooks, Androids, and Windows Machines and Phones

by Spencer Heckathorn | March 21, 2022 | General Computing | 0 Comments

There is a video coming for each one of these device types. No matter what kind of device you operate on, you will need to keep up with the available space on the device to know if you should delete something before snapping that next picture or downloading another...

How to Fix “This Operation Returned Because the Timeout Period Expired”

Dec 18, 2022 | General Computing

This week I ran into a very slow-to-respond computer that gave the error "This operation returned because the timeout period expired." I spent much longer working directly on the machine before I had a crazy idea. This all-too-slow machine was an SBS 2011 server. It...

Virtual Box “Uninstall this app” – Windows 10 Setup Fail

Sep 3, 2022 | General Computing

It might be a few years late to the game, but if you find yourself running into an error during Windows 10 Upgrade, you might need to remove VirtualBox to progress forward temporarily. Several months ago, I saw a similar error when upgrading to Windows 11, and devs...

Using Google Accounts with Your Non-Google Email

Sep 3, 2022 | General Computing

Suppose you have an existing email and don't want to set up a Gmail just to use something YouTube or sign into google for any of their other services. You can use your existing email! Visit this link: https://accounts.google.com/signupwithoutgmail Enter your...

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