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During normal use of your desktop computer, you detect a burned odor coming from your system. What is the next step you should follow during the troubleshooting process?
During normal use of your desktop computer, you detect a burned odor coming from your system. What is the next step you should follow during the troubleshooting process?
You’ve just acquired a new video card for your corporate workstation, but the video drivers for the adapter will not install. Which of these would be the most likely cause of this issue?
You’re using one of your large corporate networked printers to prepare some customer mailings, and you’ve been trying to send your print job to the top tray of the printer that contains your letterhead. However, your printouts always default to the plain paper default printer tray. When you look at the print options, you notice that the top paper tray isn’t even listed in your print options. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
The top tray. The top one. On top. It’s the top tray. Read More »
You are troubleshooting a printing issue on a client’s Windows XP computer, and have found that the Windows Spooler is stopping unexpectedly. Which of these would be the best choice for restarting the Windows Spooler?
One of your customers has called you for some support in connecting their new computer to their existing printer. They say they need to connect their printer to the PC using the port farthest away from the Centronics connector. To what kind of interface are they referring?
You have been having some disk read performance concerns, and you would like to run a check of the physical hard drive sectors. Which utility would be the best choice for this?
You have recently upgraded your laptop to a newer model, but now you find that your CardBus adapters no longer fit into your laptop expansion slot. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
You are concerned that a virus has corrupted some of your system files. Which command line utility can check system file integrity?