John Snow

John started JSnowCreations as a place to post random tech guides and product reviews. However, while shopping for his daughter's first "big girl" bed in 2019 he learned about the hidden dangers of fiberglass in mattresses. Since then, John has made it his mission to expose as much hidden fiberglass in mattresses as possible. His ultimate goal is federal regulations that ban fiberglass from being used in mattresses, or at least a law that require it to be listed in the material tags.

Fix Remote Desktop Problem Windows 10 Faulting module name: vorbis.acm

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I was having a problem recently with Remote Desktop connections not working, Remote Desktop would just exit without any error while trying to connect. I checked Event Viewer and saw this entry: Faulting application name: mstsc.exe, version: 10.0.14393.447, time stamp: 0x5819bc5f Faulting module name: vorbis.acm, version: 0.0.3.6, time stamp: 0x50a51541Exception code: 0xc0000005 So after searching … Read more

Sortable Table of “Geek Tested: 17 Thermal Pastes Face Off” Comparison

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This is a sortable table made from the info presented in the article “Geek Tested: 17 Thermal Pastes Face Off” at PCGamer.com. I will also be adding some of my own information inside additional columns such as ebay pricer-per-gram. On an idling overclocked processor or a stock-clocked CPU, the differences between thermal pastes is minimal—we … Read more

Failed to Install HCMon Driver Error Installing VMware Workstation on Windows Fix

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I was installing VMware Workstation 12 Pro yesterday and I kept getting this “Failed to install hcmon driver” error at the very end of the install, and each time it would undo the install and I’d be left with nothing. After a few Google searches I found this page in the VMware Knowledge Base and … Read more

MSI Failed Error While Uninstalling or Installing VMWare Workstation on Windows Fix

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The other day I was trying to uninstall and then upgrade my VMware Workstation from version 10 to 12 and I kept getting an “MSI ” Failed” Windows Error. Turns out it helps to stop not only VMware programs running via Task Manager, but to also stop the VMware Windows Services. After that, VMware Workstation … Read more