So what’s the solution to a missing SM Bus Controller driver on a MSI FM2-A55M-E33 motherboard? It turns out it’s technically just a Windows Driver to be used on all newer AMD chipsets that for some reason isn’t offered from the MSI website.
Some time towards the end of 2017 my mothers HP Envy 5640 stopped printing via USB – apparently she never got it printing wireless and had just settled for USB. She told me about the problem a few weeks ago but she’s pretty good with computers so I figured she would get it all worked … Read more
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
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
For Windows 7/8/8.1/10: Right-click on “My Computer” or “This PC”. Select “Properties”. Click “Advanced System Settings”. Click “Environment Variables”. Under the “System Variables” sub-section select the Variable Path and click “Edit”. Append “;C:\Python27” to the existing path, click “Ok”, and “Ok” again. Restart CMD Prompt for the new path setting to take effect. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11287597/how-to-make-python-accessible-via-cmd-prompt-without-full-path
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
