Sounds serious doesn’t it? ‘DPC Watchdog Violation’ sounds like something you would be accused of in court. It’s actually a Windows error telling you there’s a problem with your SSD driver. There are other occasions where a different driver or firmware is at fault but the majority of them we see are for SSDs. This … Read more
Here at Dave’s Computers in New Jersey, we like all kinds of operating systems. We like Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Chrome OS and Mac OS. It is this latter that we are going to discuss today as there has been a new OS version released called Mojave. Mac OS Mojave is more interesting than usual … Read more
We don’t see many Chromebooks here at Dave’s Computers in New Jersey. They tend to be mainly used for web browsing and light work and are generally very reliable. With most of the apps being web-based, there is actually very little to go wrong. When we did get one in the store last week, we … Read more
If you downloaded and installed the recent Windows 10 October Update and use Windows Backup, you may see a new error the first time it runs. The error is 0x80070013 and says the destination disk is right protected. Even if you have run Windows Backup successful before, you may begin to see this error now. … Read more
The Windows 10 October Update was a big one and took up an extra 30GB on our hard drive. Ours went very well and aside from a later issue that arose with Windows Backup which I’ll cover next time, it was a faultless upgrade. Not everyone was so lucky though. A few people have been … Read more
Last week, Facebook announced that over 50 million accounts had been hacked. The issue isn’t just this hack of Facebook accounts but also the loss of account entry keys that integrate with Facebook Connect. This could potentially lead to further data loss and companies are still trying to figure out how far the losses could … Read more
It is rare that you should need to manually open a firewall port in Windows Firewall. Usually, when you install a new program and use it for the first time, Windows will offer to add a firewall exception or will trigger a permissions popup the first time the program tries to access the internet. It … Read more
We had a computer in our New Jersey computer store the other day with an error I hadn’t seen since Windows 8. It gave us the error code 0xc00000e9. This code is unusual as it can be a hardware error and not just software. It can stop the computer working and prevent you saving anything … Read more
We see a lot of computers infected with malware here at Dave’s Computers. Our New Jersey computer store is often visited by people who think they have taken every precaution and yet still fall foul of this virulent annoyance. If you think you may have malware on your computer, visit our store and we can … Read more
After suggesting iOS 12 is worth the upgrade on Monday, today I have to be more cautionary. One feature that was introduced with the new OS was the Trust Score. To ‘help prevent fraud’ your device will begin tracking how you use it and build a profile to which it will award a trust score. … Read more
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