How to Cheaply Replace HP 15-cw0055nr Keyboard and Not Whole Palm Rest

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Recently my sister’s HP 15-cw0055nr laptop was having some keyboard issues, and by issues I mean her cat knocked a beer over and the keyboard drank it all. After letting the HP Laptop dry she cleaned as much of the beer from the top of the keys as well as any beer she could reach … Read more

Fix “Failed to Lock the File” Error on VMWare Workstation 12

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One of my testing/sandbox computers, that’s not running on a UPS, was unexpectedly powered off the other day when a falling tree branch in my neighborhood took out a power line. Hours later when the power was back and I turned on my computer, one of my virtual machines running on VMware Workstation 12 wouldn’t … Read more

Finally Fix Cortana Search Crashing after Two Characters Typed on Windows 10

Yesterday my computer started exhibiting this bizarre behavior where typing two characters in the Cortana Search would crash the entire Taskbar – typing in the start button area would have the same behavior. I immediately tried the basic things first like restarting Cortana, Windows Explorer. I checked Services to make sure the Search service was … Read more