Podnutz Daily #125 - Frustrating Day Today

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Windows 98 machine in 2008
Error message indicating reinstall required.
Installed 98 again but considering XP

BTW user: How do you break a fan blade?
Vista home Premium Media Center was also crashing
Goole search reveals a fix for Media Center


Looking for a good undelete file utility
The Utimate boot CD failed me.

Tip:
Sometimes it makes more sense to replace the MB
and the processor rather than
accommodate the current processor
on a machine that needs a motherboard replacement.


Voice mail from Nebben (Ben)
BartPE does use memory
.. but not enought to be concerned
PayPal payments and credit card fraud


Email from Jason:
Word 2007 error message
"Word could not create the work file.
Check the temp environment variable"
Try system restore?


Email from Geraldo:
Fab's Auto Backup
amic email backup


Email from Mark:
What do you charge for repairs at your shop?


Live call from Tim:
As a tech I give 90 day warranty on hardware
No warranty on virus removal.
What's your take?

Also-
Unlocking a locked bios: Are we liable if the PC is stolen?


Live call from Andrew:
Cannot remove weird shield sitting in the system tray.
No name and clicking the shield takes you to a website
.. that will not load.


Live call from Ben
Help for Timster
Help for Anderew
Use Google news
to get information on new virus that Google has not yet indexed.


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