Monday, February 19, 2007

Early DST May Bring Your PC Some Grief

Daylight Saving Time is 3 weeks early this year and will end 1 week later when we fall back.

This is okay for us to adjust to but not all PC's will feel the same. Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, you may have find that time synchronized programs may disruptive and calendars will be off for up to 4 weeks, untill it catches up at the usual time. So to avoid any issues before hand it is a good idea to make sure both your Windows operating system and calendar programs have been patched.

See Microsoft for more details and run the daylight savings time guide.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

Home users: If you use Windows Vista or have Automatic Updates turned on, you may not be affected by the change in daylight saving time. But is better to be safe than sorry.

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

CD-ROM access is missing and messages cite error code.

CD-Rom stops working. After checking device manager you find an exclamation mark on the drive. It doesn't mean the drive is dead. It could be an upperfilter or lowerfilter registry issue that is keeping you from accessing the cd drive.

This fix worked for my client:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/XP_CD-DVD-Fix.zip

Also, try this fix from microsoft.

CD-ROM access is missing and messages cite error code 31, code 32, code 19, code 39, or code 41.

Try this before replacing the drive and remember that you may have to reinstall some burning software.

Backup registry before attempting any changes.

Computer Repair Lakeland, FL
863-521-1079