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How I Installed Windows 10 On My 2011 iMac (Using Boot Camp)
» by Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles June 6, 2017 at 10:22 pm » Comments (173)
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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 Randy Knowles 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 »