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This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Washing Windows 8, yet again

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Killing off crapware, specifically hpservice.exe. This baby shows up in Task Manager as a "process", ie a program loaded into ram...

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Washing Windows 8 (yet again)

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Today's first crapware kill is hpmsgsvc.exe, This is an HP program, not Micro$oft. Web searching returned a lot of hits, but few of th...

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Washing Windows 8 (again)

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Today's Windows 8 crapware kill is a service called "Bonjour". Bonjour is an Apple invention for "hands off networking...

Monday, June 22, 2015

Is my laptop listening to me?

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Have I been bugged by my laptop? Who knows. Yesterday the Chrome Browser by Google was accused of flipping on the internal mike and sendin...

Friday, September 19, 2014

Keyboard Flakie Wakies. Windows and HP Bios

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This is a software problem. Touch typing causes odd effects like cursor jumping back at random, weird programs starting up, and other b...

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