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Serving the Burnaby/Metrotown area, Thomas The Geek provides affordable private computer and web services for residential and SOHO small business needs, with an emphasis on old fashioned personal attention. Known for honest, quality computer repair, upgrades, recovery, maintenance services and more, Thomas The Geek can help you in your time of need when others can't.

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Putting Skype Back Where It Belongs

Microsoft is famous for doing strange things, if it isn’t trying to kill open source technology or stomp on peoples right to a free and open world, they’ll side swipe us with their “do it their way” attitude. And there is no better example of this than Windows 7, which is essentially Vista in sheep’s [...]

Published by ThomasTheGeek, on May 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm. Filled under: Windows TipsNo Comments

Windows 7 Video Lockups

Q: I just installed the full version of Windows 7 Ultimate from scratch on a 2 year old Asus/AMD system with a clean reformatted drive. It works fine for a while, but then for no apparent reason, it locks up every once in a while. The mouse moves, but I can’t click on anything. I [...]

Published by ThomasTheGeek, on December 27th, 2009 at 7:25 am. Filled under: Windows Errors Tags: , , , Comments Off

Windows Audit Mode Error 0×8004071c

The Windows audit mode first came to my attention when attempting to install Google Chrome in a new Windows 7 install, instead of installing Chrome, Windows 7 popped up an error message stating that Chrome could not install because Windows 7 was in audit mode. Here is the fix that corrects this error, but first…
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Published by ThomasTheGeek, on December 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm. Filled under: Windows Errors Tags: , , , , , Comments Off