Closing Chrome tabs makes pc hang for a few seconds

I had this issue for a few weeks where the pc would hang when closing a Chrome tab.  Solutions varied from testing RAM with memtest or Windows Memory Test, closing any backup plan running and updating Nvidia graphics card drivers.  The graphics card driver update worked for me.  In the google group here bdericks was…

Installation Cannot Continue – Windows Management Instrumentation service is disabled…

I have no idea what this is and why it is disabled.  I was trying to install the Samsung SSD magician update and kept getting this error.  A quick google search on this error led me to this helpful page which fixed the problem. I am using Windows 7 Pro but the answer seems related…

Convert Dynamic Disc back to Basic Disc

  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk using Free “EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition” WARNING: Even though you will not lose the data on the dynamic disk when you use this option to convert the dynamic disk back to a basic disk, be sure to backup any data on the dynamic disk that you wish to keep…

This program can’t start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer

Got this error when trying the windows performance test.  Found solution here youtube link delete MSVCR100.dll from windows/system32/ download http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 and http://www.ascentive.com/support/new/libraryfiles.exe Edit: That did not actually work for me so I just downloaded the dll file and copied it to the folder directly: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr100

Windows 7 Admin permissions

After new installation of Windows 7 folders and files were locked and admin permission was required even though account in use was admin.  Work around: First switch of UAC – user account control. Technet forum Here’s how I edit the C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts file. It gave “You don’t have permission to save in this location..” but I solved…

Sage Line 50 printer error

Sage Line 50 printer error http://www.office-answers.com/virtual-office/sage-settings-to-access-printer.htm If you edit the report and remove the specific printer then it should use the default printer on whichever machine it is on. http://forum.makingithappen.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1295&p=6993#p6993 This link above is for a newer version of Sage, I am using 2009 and I don’t have a save printer option in properties in…