No Menu Bar or Tabs in Windows XP Task Manager

When you open up Task Manager in Windows XP, there is no title bar, menu bar, or program tabs showing. Only the running applications, End Task, Switch To, and New Task buttons show up. This problem is easy to fix, the Task Manager is running in “tiny footprint mode”. To correct this, simply double-click on […]

Valve might need a few Macintosh and Linux engineers

It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the […]

Why can’t I see my extra hard drive?

i added another hard disk on my computer, but when I opened My Computer the extra hard disk was not on there. What’s  happening? Chances are you added the hard drive correctly, but you haven’t finished installing it in Windows…It probably needs to be formatted. Right-click on My Computer and select manage Expand out Storage […]

Boot Camp Software Update 3.1 for Windows 32 bit

Apple has finally released Boot Camp v3.1 for Windows 32 & Windows 64 bit…. This update adds support for Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate), addresses issues with the Apple trackpad, turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not being used, and supports the Apple wireless keyboard and Apple Magic mouse. This update […]

Why is my computer Dancin’? What is GrooveMonitor?

What is GrooveMonitor.exe? GrooveMonitor.exe is a utility process that is installed as a part of Microsoft Office 2007 (probably the enterprise edition). The GrooveMonitor.exe process service starts up as a part of Windows. GrooveMonitor.exe file can be found under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 What does GrooveMonitor.exe really do? Groove Monitor is a tool that can be […]

Outlook reports that the PST file was not closed properly.

For the past few weeks I have been getting this error, “Microsoft Office Outlook has stopped working.”Then whenever I relaunched Outlook, I got the pop up that said that it was checking the PST file for errors because it was not closed properly. I used the command line option /cleanviews and that still didn’t help. Check to see if […]