Category: Podnutz Daily

Podnutz Daily #145 – Got a New PC

System Recovery Partitions – a reinstall of an operating system can change how this partition is accessed – you need to make this partition ACTIVE –...

Podnutz Daily #144 – Remove Multiple Registry Items

Philly Tech Guys this Saturday February 14th at 2pm IBM Think Pad work PC needed files removed and cleaned before turning it back over to the company – File...

Podnutz Daily #142 – I Hate Verizon Internet Security Suite

More issues with malware not allowing malwarebytes to run: – Repair permissions using Dial-A-Fix – More on the use of Trojan Remover to assist in getting...

Podnutz Daily #141 – Crazy People

New Podnutz Daily Schedule! Mondays and Wednesdays only Live Call Day on Wednesday! Crazy customer story from the shop. TIP: Crazy customers drive away the sane...

Podnutz Daily #140 – XBOX 360 Red Rings Of Death

My first Xbox 360 came into the shop today – Troubleshooting red rings of death Stuck keys on a laptop due to spills? – Just replace the keyboard –...

Podnutz Daily #139 – No Video, No Startup on a DV6000

It’s getting tougher to clean PCs because the malware is getting smarter – Sometimes changing the name of mbam.exe still will not allow it to load. –...

Podnutz Daily #138 – Bad Hard Drive In DV6000

HP DV6000 laptop would hang at the bios screen This is an indication the hard drive is bad .. because the bios is trying to communicate with the hard drive. OEM Vista...

Podnutz Daily #137 – Love Those Junkers

Encreamated = Encrypted (?) Helping my business neighbors The electronics shop down the street handed me 2 junker computers to fix (at a lower rate) Junker = celeron 233...

Podnutz Daily #136 – Computer Wouldn't Shut Down

eMachines computers are good for giving us problems: This one presented rebooting after holding in the power button No shutdown .. simply rebooting. Motherboard has a 24...

Podnutz Daily #135 – XP Antivirus 2010 Rears It's Head

XP Antivirus 2010 would not allow upgrades/updates of Norton Cheezy program with a fake Windows Security Center Fake Blue Screen Fake Windows rebooting screen …...