Category: Podnutz Daily

Podnutz Daily #62 – The Leaf Blower May Just Win

Infected laptop came into the shop. After I cleaned the machine I still had this Vista-looking pop up that said the computer was infected. It was a background image, a...

Podnutz Daily #61 – Love Those Laptop Screen Repairs

Dell Inspiron Laptop running slow. Did my full clean up procedure and the computer still sluggish. The service host in task manager was maxing out the processor with...

Podnutz Daily #60 – The Listeners Take Over The Show

DriverPacks has been assisting me with downgrades from Vista to XP because it finds many of the drivers. I use Google for the rest. Example: HP DV6000 came with Vista...

Podnutz Daily #59 – A Pretty Solid Monday

This first thing I want to talk about is Health! I had a tough time after Friday’s Podcast. Too much time working and not enough exercise. Voice Mail from...

Podnutz Daily #58 – A Little Scary Today

Interesting job today. Guy brought in XP Media Center computer with a new video card and monitor. Symptoms: Windows booting — just before it loaded the desktop...

Podnutz Daily #57 – Got milk?

Registry fix to allow desktop background (when all images are grayed out) Can be found here: PC Hell Customer spilled milk on an almost brand new Gateway (One of those...

Podnutz Daily #56 – I used to like Toshiba Laptops!

Podnutz #23 soon-to-be-released Guest Steve D’Amico from Long Island, NY SMDComputer.net Another Toshiba laptop. I think Toshiba laptops are going to be the death...

Podnutz Daily #55 – Am I Stressed Out?

More on the Toshiba motherboard from hell Still getting the BSOD “Plug and Play has detected an error most likely caused by a faulty driver” Always at the...

Podnutz Daily #54 – Getting Swamped at the Shop

Swamped. Word-of-mouth bringing them in Back-To-School Business, too? Must be. I have not changed advertising. FOUR computers driving me nuts: 1. Toshiba Laptop with bad...

Podnutz Daily #53 – And The Winner Is…

Don’t get caught up in rituals when it comes to cleaning and optimizing a pc because you tend to forget the basics *Like checking the available hard drive space*...