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How I Installed Windows 10 On My 2011 iMac (Using Boot Camp)

» by January 10, 2020 at 8:40 pm » Comments (6)

Install Windows 10 on 2011 iMac Hello everyone, I have just installed Windows 10 on my mid 2011 iMac. I used the macOS Boot Camp utility and everything went as smooth as ...more »

Don’t Be Fooled By Phony SD Cards: Do This!

» by November 13, 2019 at 8:28 pm » Comments (1)

Beware of Counterfeit SD Cards! Hello everyone, My clients love their photos. Many still take them using very nice DSLR and/or Point and Shoot Cameras. They buy and use many ...more »

How I Fixed: Mid-2011 iMac Fans Running At Full Speed

» by January 1, 2019 at 5:26 pm » Comments (7)

Mid-2011 iMac Hello everyone, I have a wonderful 27" mid-2011 iMac. A few years ago I installed a new 1TB Hard Drive (spinning SATA). When I booted up the new install, the ...more »

How I Fixed: Processor Cores Disabled

» by July 24, 2018 at 8:25 pm » Comments (2)

Hello everyone, The other day I was doing some diagnostics on an older AMD dual core laptop. I was checking out the memory using MemTest 86 ( great little memory testing tool), ...more »

How I Fixed: iMac Won’t Power On After Power Outage/Surge

» by June 6, 2017 at 10:22 pm » Comments (163)

Hello everyone, I have a wonderful mid-2011 iMac that I really like. Two days ago we had severe thunderstorms here in Tennessee and there were several power outages. The following day ...more »

My Recipe For Comcast Wireless Success

» by June 26, 2015 at 10:38 pm » Comments (4)

Hello everyone, I have been getting many comments/questions about Comcast wireless connectivity (see two previous posts here and here). Here is my "quick and dirty" recipe for Comcast wireless sucess: 1) Disable ...more »

How I Fixed: “Windows cannot be installed to this disk…..”

» by February 28, 2015 at 1:19 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, A client gave me a Dell 660s Windows 8.1 desktop that would not boot. It was stuck in an automatic repair loop, but nothing was being repaired. Just for good ...more »

Not Getting 50 Mbps Download Speed From Comcast? Here’s How! (Part 2)

» by October 14, 2014 at 1:21 pm » Comments (6)

Hello everyone, I have received many comments from my first Comcast post back in March of 2012 (June 2015 post here). Many people in my area, and around the country are ...more »

How I Optimized My New SSD Installation

» by July 16, 2014 at 11:42 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, In a previous post I described how I brought an old laptop back to life by installing a new SSD. In this post I would like to describe a ...more »

How I Rejuvenated My Beloved Older Laptop (By Cloning To An SSD)

» by July 9, 2014 at 11:55 am » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, In 2008 I bought a beautiful Toshiba laptop (Toshiba Satellite L355-S7812 - 17.1" - Core 2 Duo T5550 - Vista Home Premium - 3 GB RAM - 200 GB ...more »