Sunday, October 11, 2015

Frozen Mouse Pointer

This remedy may work for many model computers when the mouse pointer freezes upon system boot up. If you have a USB mouse attached to your computer and your mouse freezes when your windows desktop shows up try this:

1. Unplug your mouse from it's current USB port
2. Plug your mouse into another USB port on your computer

If the mouse moves again, the problem was in the original USB port.

Monday, September 7, 2015

McAfee Popup Notifications: Your Device is not fully protected!

If you are using a McAfee product and receive a McAfee notification "Your device is not fully protected" after a full scan that yield results stating, no errors or viruses, malware or spyware, the problem maybe related to the time the product was down loaded onto your computer. When the clock is not set to the correct date and time when downloading, but while the product is installed the time is then set correctly, that may cause the installed program to fast forward to it's expiration date.  For example, if the computer that is receiving the program time is set for April 28, 2016 but the accurate date is April 28, 2017, for McAfee subscriptions that last 1 year, that subscription may expire when the computer's clock is set with the accurate time causing a McAfee notification "Your device is not fully protected"

A solution you can try, especially if you have noticed the computer's date and time lagging behind, is to uninstall the program from Control Panels, Programs and Features menu. Once the program has been removed, set the computer's date and time feature to the correct date and time, then reinstall the McAfee product that was giving the "Your device is not fully protected" notifications.

Critical_Process_Died

Critical_Process_Died is a blue screen error that users may experience when interacting with Task manager when ending tasks that are interfering with other background processes.

RunOnceWrapper

RunOnceWrapper is a program that will get on your computer and cause it to black screen. This is a condition users of Windows 8 may experience while working with audio, video, and movie files.