Category: Computers

Windows Explorer crashing

I have been jousting with this for a while now!
Explorer crashes if I try to copy a file or folder or right click to view file or folder properties! I use WFE a lot to manage media for Facebook and blogging.
Tried all the usual things including running SFC to check for corrupt system files and finally started investigating shell extensions in particular third party shell extensions – Bingo!

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Al’s YouTube Channel-

My ‘Turning fence palings into dressed timber clip 1’ got over 9000 views

YouTube channel

Note: My main reason for using YouTube is because my basic WordPress paid account does not allow for direct video uploads to wordpress.com – they need to be hosted on some other external site.

When I want to post videos to my WordPress blog I first upload to YouTube then grab the embed code and past that into my blog post using Open Live Writer.


Lenovo AIO desktop noisy fan

For some months now our Lenovo Ideacentre AIO 510 (23) i7/16GB desktop has been annoying me with a noisy fan.

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Even when idle the fan revs will increase and decrease in a cyclic manner.

Removed the back and gave it a clean out; not much in the way of dust clogging things so this will not fix the noisy fan problem. I suspect it’s software…not hardware.

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