Windows Storage Spaces

Use Storage Spaces to Create Virtual Disks From Physical Disks Windows has a feature called Storage Spaces which allows you to pool together multiple physical drives into a Storage Pool and then… Read More

Spybot Search & Destroy 2 Anti Spyware

SpyBot anti malware software has been out since the days before malware was as huge of a problem as it is today. Spybot was a widely used program that would scan and… Read More

Creating a VM in Oracle’s VirtualBox Virtualization Software

If you have been working in the field of IT even for a short period of time I am sure you have heard the term virtualization and most likely know what it… Read More

How a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Works

In today’s fast paced mobile society everyone is connected to everything at all times with their laptops, tablets and smart phones. It’s almost like if you aren’t “connected” 24/7 you are doing… Read More

Using nbtstat to Find a Computer Name

Have you ever wanted to know what computer belongs to what IP address? This information can come in very handy when trying to troubleshoot network issues or see if there are devices… Read More

Windows Installer Could Not Be Accessed Error

When you are trying to install, uninstall or repair a program, you may receive an error that says Windows Installer could not be accessed and that the Windows Installer files are missing… Read More

Using PathPing

PathPing is a network diagnostic utility that comes with Windows which combines the ping and tracert command into one tool. PathPing will show you details of the path between two hosts like… Read More

Computer Networking History

The field of computer networking and today’s Internet trace their beginnings back to the early 1960s, a time at which the telephone network was the world’s dominant communication network. The global Internet’s… Read More

Windows Network and Sharing Center

The term networking may scare many novice computer users but these days networking has a more widespread meaning. 10 years ago it meant complicated messes of routers, switches and cabling which it… Read More

The Action Can’t be Completed Because the Folder or a File in it is Open in Another Program Message

Computers are always renaming, moving and deleting files and most of the time the process goes pretty smoothly. But sometimes there are reasons why you can’t do this, for example if you… Read More
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