Archive for June, 2011

[SOLUTION] Traffic not appearing on Garmin nuvi 1690

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

I'm really liking the Garmin nuvi 1690 with nuLink, which I hope to write a review for Amazon soon. One problem that I experienced was that I couldn't get the traffic icon to show up on the screen and I couldn't figure out how to turn it on in the ...

[FIX] Start Menu icons are missing or deleted after malware

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

There is a new piece of malware making the rounds that hides or deleted your Start Menu icons/shortcuts. The program folders in the All Programs button are still there, but they show up as Empty. I really didn't want to manually restore each one, and I couldn't definitively figure out if ...

[FIX] Can’t open EXE files AND can’t open REG files to fix it

Monday, June 6th, 2011

I don't know why this happened (although registry corruption is my guess), but a user of mine lost the ability to open EXE files, so when I went to fix that using Doug Knox's EXE fix, it wouldn't allow me to open the REG file either. Since I couldn't open ...

QuickBooks 2011 Automatic Credit Card Billing – LOST!

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

I just replaced my computer and installed QuickBooks Pro 2011 on the new computer. I moved my data files and checked to make sure that the automatic/recurring credit card billing information was there -- and it was. However, I looked yesterday and found it is all gone!! I went through ...

[SOLUTION] Windows Update Error 80072EFE on Vista

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

I was working on a Windows Vista laptop that was infected and all the user files were hidden. This is my third computer with similar symptoms this week... After running MalwareBytes' Antimalware, some things just didn't "feel" right and Windows Update wouldn't work, with this error: Error 80072EFE. After reading some, I ...