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ASRock BIOS update – Showing the Internet Flash BIOS update feature within an ASRock Fatality UEFI BIOS

Use the ASRock BIOS update feature within the BIOS to keep it up to date

August 19, 2021 Eric Legge 0

Methods of updating a UEFI BIOS All recent ASRock motherboards – in existence for three or four years from August 2021 – have a UEFI […]

TPM chassis intruded error message from an AMI BIOS

TPM chassis intruded BIOS fatal error message appears at system startup preventing boot

October 15, 2020 Eric Legge 0

The image above shows an error message that an American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS has brought up at system startup. Until the user fixes the problem, […]

MSI B450M A Pro Max AMD socket AM4 mATX motherboard

AMD motherboard and Ryzen CPU PC freezes due to automatic BIOS overclocking set by default

July 17, 2020 Eric Legge 0

The lock-up/freezing problem A high-end desktop gaming PC randomly locks up – freezes – several times a day. The system builder, with decades of experience, […]

Showing an UPS of average size made by APC beside a PC monitor

PC freezes every 15 minutes requiring a reboot or shuts down

June 30, 2020 Eric Legge 0

PROBLEM – PC freezes regularly My elderly desktop PC runs Windows 7 SP1 64-bit version with 4GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 […]

What's My Computer Doing - utility - user interface

Why do some of my programs freeze for up to 2 minutes?

August 9, 2019 Eric Legge 0

Problem: Programs freeze for up to 2 minutes My desktop PC is experiencing a very annoying problem. Several times a day some of my programs […]

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Does using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) protect your privacy from hackers and legal snooping

May 22, 2019 Eric Legge 0

A brief introduction to Virtual Private Networks – VPNs The image above provides a simple illustration of how a VPN service works. A VPN tunnel […]

Brief depiction of the data-encryption process.

Data Encryption Explained

December 9, 2018 Eric Legge 0

What data encryption is and what you need to know about it Data encryption is a system designed to encode (scramble) a transfer of data […]

You can still get Win10 free after the July 2016 deadline for the free offer. Read on for more information

Get and use Win10 free and use it free after July 29 2016

August 18, 2018 Eric Legge 0

Note that Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 product keys have always been able to activate Windows 10, You must use the standard activation process and […]

Switch to Linux Mint, a secure, reliable operating system

February 25, 2018 Eric Legge 0

Switch to free Linux Mint to enjoy a fast, secure operating system that has all of the free software that most users need A Linux […]

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Samsung updates – Does Samsung update its Android devices?

August 8, 2017 Eric Legge 0

Samsung updates – Does Samsung update all of its Android phones and tablets to the latest version? The installation of Samsung updates of phones and […]

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