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Installing Printers – Best Practices


In the Information Technology world there are some things that are extremely hard to believe…and this is how it goes when I talk about printers and tell people I rarely have any problems with them. It’s true. Out of the many I have installed and the several that I use, the only problems I have […]

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Troubleshooting a dead AMD Ryzen 9 X3D Processor


In the 25+ Years I have been working in Tech, responsible for many PCs and Servers, having built hundreds and repaired thousands, I had never had a CPU die on me…even when I lived back home in the Dominican Republic where the electrical grid was unstable. I can only remember one incident where a brand […]

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HP – The BIOS you are installing is older error


This is an error that unfortunately HP has created for many users, by incorrectly making public a list of BIOS Updates for a specific computer that may have been distributed with different motherboards. Taking advantage of an older computer with a memory upgrade and SSD, you manage to install and run smoothly Windows 11. You […]

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Free Micro/Mini/SFF PC Giveaway


I have quite a bit of these PCs that were traded in and have decided to gift them to anybody that subscribes to my YouTube Channel. I’ve been giving PCs away since the early 2000s and would love for these to end up in a good home instead of the E-Scrap Facility. How it works […]

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100th Mini PC Install Milestone – Best Practices


With the pressure of migrating out of Windows 10 due to the end of support, and also rising costs in Hardware due to inflation and other factors, such as a memory supply shortage, I had to seek options for myself and my clients in replacing hundreds of PCs with good performance and cost. I came […]

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Before you buy a small UPS Battery Backup


Small UPS Battery Backups can range anywhere from about 300 VA to 750 VA. They can give devices such as modems, routers, networking switches, alarm systems, Mini PCs, and low-end desktop PCs between 2-15 minutes of Runtime depending on the load. As an example, I have a 425 VA UPS for my Frontier FIOS ONT, […]

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Dell Laptop Drivers not found in Windows 11


We can’t expect Windows 11 to have every single Driver for every device in the world to be included in the installation Package. We could see this in the uprising of the Mini PCs, in which I wrote articles for downloading the Drivers of the main players such as GMKtec, BOSGAME, MINISFORUM and Beelink. Recently […]

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Warning: The 3-2-1 Backup Rule is not enough


I’ve started participating more in providing free tech support online, whether it be in Forums or Reddit. Back in the early 2000s, I had started my own forum which racked up more than 4000 users worldwide. One thing that immediately caught my attention, is the amount of detail that is lost in most modern responses. […]

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Where to purchase a Battery for APC BN4001 12240 6 F2


The APC Back-UPS Network 40, or BN4001 is one of those units that has an awkward battery size (5.94″D x 2.01″W x 3.74″H) that may be hard to find at your usual go-to such as Amazon, Newegg, Tractor Supply, Batteries+, and others. However it is an excellent battery backup and purchasing a Battery in 2026 […]

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Right Click and Open with… freeze Computer


Many applications or programs create temporary files as well as Registry entries when opened. In some cases, if you open a file on the network, whether it be on a Server or NAS Device, this can create a problem once the Network path is no longer available. In this particular situation, right clicking a File […]

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