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If you don’t want High Sierra but you can’t seem to find Sierra anymore in the Apple App Store, here is the direct download link Mac OS Sierra You will still need your Apple ID to download it, but at … Continued

Here are the direct links posted by Microsoft May 12, 2017 to combat WCRY and WANNACRY malware. Microsoft Catalog  

I have an iPhone 6 running ios 9.1 with Verizon. Recently I turned on the option for Voice and Data over LTE (the default is data only over LTE). Since turning on Voice and Data over LTE, during many calls … Continued

We do IT work for a publishing company with 23TB of data and well over 2 million files. We deployed FoxTrot Professional Search for their 20+ Mac users. Before they had FoxTrot Search, users would spend an inordinate amount of time trying to … Continued

Tired of the high price of Adobe Cloud (and who isn’t?)? Finally, a real alternative to Photoshop and Illustrator! Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer offer real-time editing and creation tools that match or rival almost everything you can do with … Continued

I recently setup a new MacBook for a client who wanted me to transfer all her files from her old MacBook to the new one. The new MacBook, of course, didn’t come with Ethernet, so I decided to just do … Continued

We are in the midst of deploying a Synology 12-bay NAS as a high availability cluster for one of our clients. We have two model RS3614RPxs with 36TB of usable storage in each unit. We are setting them up in … Continued

Open Services and find Windows Installer. Change Startup from Manual to Disabled. Open [Task Manager >> Processes] Check “Show processes from all uses” Find the process (might occur more than once, usually msiexec.exe or msiexec32.exe), right click and select “End … Continued

Under rare circumstances, the Quickbooks registration window may not appear. To access the registration window directly: Go to the Help menu and click About QuickBooks. On your keyboard, hold the CTRL key, and then press R, then P.

Found an easy fix to this problem. Restart the “Windows management Instrumentation” Service. The dependent services will restart in the proper order and you’ll see the CPU go way down to normal levels.