Classic Shell for Windows 8 is Great

Hey that rhymes!  As an alternative to Start 8, which is fairly priced at $5, Classic Shell adds that lovely start menu we all love to Windows 8!

 

GoDaddy Microsoft Hosted Exchange Email Account Limitations

I ran into this in San Diego and I'm hoping it's just a GoDaddy limitation and not all of Microsoft's accounts.  I was able to work around the need to use service@DOMAIN.com by creating an alias in the Exchange control panel so the client didn't have to change the email address.  service@ forwards to info@, DONE!

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/6771/hosted-exchange-email-account-limitations?locale=en&ci=46061

The following limitations apply to our Hosted Exchange email accounts:

• Recipients — 100 recipients per message


• Message Rate — 30 messages per minute, 2,000 messages per 24 hours


• Attachment Size — 20 MB per attachment, totaling 20 MB for all attachments


• Email Size — 30 MB per message, including attachments


• Contacts — 1,000 contacts on the organization's global address list


• Distribution Lists — 100 contacts per distribution list


• ActiveSync Devices — 4 devices per mailbox


• User Name Restrictions— anonymous, local, localservice, proxy, restricted, users, world, internet, builtin, dialup, interactive, localsystem, network, networkservice, self, server, service, system, terminal server, and thisorganization


• Password — Cannot contain the characters: &*():”;’?,./

Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
619 255-1215 Office

San Diego Virus Cleanup

There's been a rehashing of the dreaded FBI Moneypack virus and it's a nasty one.  Bring it in to our shop and we can give you a flat rate cleanup for $120.  No need to re-install windows in most cases!

Mobile Computer Wizard 

San Diego Computer and Laptop Repair

858-345-0382

Hello Angie's List

We are now on Angie's List. Check us out for computer repair in San Diego!

http://www.angieslist.com

*Kurt Rein* MobileComputerWizard.com 619 255-1215 Office

Need help moving your domain or changing email?

Moving a domain or setting up email can be tricky.  MX Records, A Records, Cnames... does your head hurt yet?  We are here to help!

Mobile Computer Wizard

San Diego 

858-345-0382

Auslogics BoostSpeed - Did they sell their souls?

A PC computer arrived at our shop in San Diego running a very aggressive program called Auslogics BoostSpeed version 5. I did all the tell tale thing like showing thousands of errors on the PC. It also claims to boost speed and optimize automatically. Most technicians agree these are bogus claims. Any program claiming to clean and optimize the registry is false and dangerous. Unfortunately, it does appear to be the same company that the disk defragmenting program comes from. I must also note, The PC quit booting, I was able to put it in diagnositc boot mode through safe mode to boot only the bare essentials. BoostSpeed still loaded up, wow!

The final part of my opinion came from the uninstall process. There was at least 4 extra popups warning me not to uninstall it and offering me a deal to buy and keep it. Shame on you Auslogics... too aggressive!

*Kurt Rein* MobileComputerWizard.com 619 255-1215 Office

CutePDF is great for PDF editing and merging

I was curious how CutePDF compared to the branded version of Adobe Acrobat Standard. I was quite impressed with CutePDF... I installed the Pro evaluation version on a test PC in our San Diego shop and this thing works great! I merged a PDF, reordered the pages, rotated and removed a page. All quickly and easily.

Solid program! For only $50 the rubber stamp at the bottom of your PDF's is removed. Deal!

After you install it, if you have any functionality questions. We are here!

http://cutepdf.com/

*Kurt Rein* MobileComputerWizard.com 619 255-1215 Office San Diego Computer Repair