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	<title>Computer Wizard Indianapolis, LLC &#187; News</title>
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		<title>Online Backup: What&#8217;s really getting backed up?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/online-backup-whats-really-getting-backed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online backup is a great invention. It can save you a lot of grief in case of a hard drive crash, stolen laptop, etc. However there are some drawbacks and limitation that I think it&#8217;s important to know about so that you don&#8217;t get a bad surprise.

Speed
First thing to know about online backups is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Type of Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/new-type-of-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks I got some questions about strange phone calls people received. It turned out that it&#8217;s a new type of scam that just getting started.
Here&#8217;s how the scam seems to work:
- Mr. X gets called by someone with very heavy accent (people told me that they usually had to ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Slightly&#8221; outdated items on Dell&#8217;s Online Store</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/slightly-outdated-items-on-dells-online-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/slightly-outdated-items-on-dells-online-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I ran into this page on Dell&#8217;s online store:

You can click on the image to see it in full size (press ESC to get back to the page).
It&#8217;s a black and white, CRT monitor (you know the big, bulky type).  It&#8217;s full 14&#8243; screen with a 720&#215;350 maximum resolution.  Only for $125.99!
I&#8217;m sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Forced Background Image &#8211; How to Remove, or Bypass</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/googles-forced-background-image-how-to-remove-or-bypass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/googles-forced-background-image-how-to-remove-or-bypass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I went to Google and found this weird computer generated picture showing up. Actually the first thing I noticed is that the Google text was grayed out. Also it look several seconds longer to load.
I was confused because I did not set a background picture. I like the simple interface that loads quickly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results of the May 2010 Customer Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/results-of-the-may-2010-customer-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/results-of-the-may-2010-customer-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I&#8217;d like to do a little survey to find out whether we are headed the right direction and to see what we could do to give a better service.
I&#8217;ve just yesterday sent out a request to our client by email to fill our a short questionnaire.  I was mainly concerned whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do Fake Antiviruses Spread?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/how-fake-antiviruses-spread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/how-fake-antiviruses-spread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen quite a bit of the fake antiviruses in the last month of so.
Fake AV was a relatively unusual occurrence until lately.  Then it took off like a rocket. The most likely reason is that it&#8217;s a very profitable scam. And because of that, unfortunately, it&#8217;s highly likely that it&#8217;s going to continue.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVG 9.0 is Out</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/avg-9-0-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I got a notification about that AVG now moved up to version 9.0. The last version was 8.5.420.
When there&#8217;s a major version change the usual way of events is this:
- For a few months the older version will have virus updates but there will be no more program updates for the previous version.
- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP DV9000 &#8211; A Possible Lemon?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/hp-dv9000-a-possible-lemon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/hp-dv9000-a-possible-lemon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had the 4th HP DV9000 laptop in my shop with a hardware failure. This is within about 2 months!
So far this is the highest incidence of hardware failure in a single computer model that I&#8217;ve seen.
Here&#8217;s how this laptop looks:

Sleek looking. And it works nice until it crashes (usually some time after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Hard Drives?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/better-hard-drives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.computerwizardindy.com/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard drive is one of the top two components in a computer that tends to fail before anything else. The other one is the power supply.
While a power supply fix is fairly easy and inexpensive, a hard drive issue is a lot more complicated. First problem is that it holds all your data! People understandably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; what to expect</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/windows-7-what-to-expect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/windows-7-what-to-expect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 is to be release to the retailer in 1 month. As usual there are a lot of speculations on it. I was curious so I tried it first hand. I&#8217;d like to share with you what I found.
The one thing got me interested in Windows 7 is that it runs faster than Vista. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading &#8211; Rebuilding Computers</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/upgrading-rebuilding-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/upgrading-rebuilding-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve had a lot of success with doing upgrades on old computers.
It turns out that it has several advantages over getting a new computer:

It&#8217;s cheaper because not everything needs to be replaced when upgrading a computer. The usual parts that should be replaced are: motherboard, CPU, RAM and Hard Drive.
You won&#8217;t have to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems and Solutions: SBC/ATT Yahoo Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/problems-and-solutions-sbcatt-yahoo-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/problems-and-solutions-sbcatt-yahoo-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few people are still using the browser that came with their DSL installation kit. It was used to be called SBC and then AT&#38;T Yahoo Browser.
Here are the icons for the SBC and AT&#38;T versions of this software:
 
I&#8217;ve been frequently getting a complaint in the last year or so that users are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poor Show By Trend Micro PC-Cilin</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-poor-show-by-trend-micro-pc-cilin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-poor-show-by-trend-micro-pc-cilin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 09:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt compelled to write this after the third incident where I have been cleaning up a computer with Trend Micro&#8217;s PC-Cilin antivirus software on them fully updated and operational but not giving even a pip about viruses much less trying to remove it.
Two of these computer had repeating virus issues &#38; the situation got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out! Internet Explorer 8 Is Now Part Of Windows&#8217; Automatic Updates!</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/watch-out-internet-explorer-8-is-now-part-of-windows-automatic-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/watch-out-internet-explorer-8-is-now-part-of-windows-automatic-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (April 29, 2009) I have noticed during running the updates on two Windows XP machines that the automatic updates tried to download and install Internet Explorer 8. I&#8217;ve opted out on both computers.
Why?
The reason I don&#8217;t recommend installing Internet Explorer 8 just yet is because it has just grown out out the beta version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Wizard&#8217;s Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/computer-wizards-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/computer-wizards-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to our tradition my family did some Easter egg painting before Easter. I painted an egg too.
It was a bit different from the usual ones  

( Click on the picture to see it in full size &#038; press ESC to get out of full screen mode. )
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		<title>A Story of a Lucky Client</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-story-of-a-lucky-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a quite unusual case.  The job started out as a possible complete data loss &#8211; but turned into a complete success and a lot of money saved for a new client.
The thing started by a phone call from a man who found me by a Google search and he told me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laszlo&#8217;s Picks of Fry&#8217;s Deals &#8211; Feb 28, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/laszlos-picks-of-frys-deals-feb-28-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/laszlos-picks-of-frys-deals-feb-28-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in another article there&#8217;s a website where you can see items on sale at Fry&#8217;s: http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/
It might not be a complete list but so far it worked out pretty good for me.
I check this site regularly and I pick out some items that I see as good deals and I know, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your New AT&amp;T Internet Security Suite&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/your-new-att-internet-security-suite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/your-new-att-internet-security-suite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing about these emails that AT&#38;T sends out to all DSL customers and a couple of days ago I got it myself. I&#8217;d like to dissect it and answer the questions about it I got recently.
Mine looked like this:

First of all, it has a misleading verbage: &#8220;In order to protect your computer you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony VAIO: Good Looking But Expensive</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/sony-vaio-good-looking-but-expensive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/sony-vaio-good-looking-but-expensive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an article a while back on an extremely overpriced replacement part from Sony. I just found another example.
Recently I got this email:
Hi I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ260P
PCG-6L2L
13&#8243;3 screen needs replacing
I get quite a few similar requests and usually the cost of a laptop screen replacement is around $200.
In this case, I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Happy Customer Who Saved Over $800</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-happy-customer-who-saved-over-800/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-happy-customer-who-saved-over-800/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a recent story from a long term client who was looking for a new laptop because she called us before making a purchase she found a much better deal.
The client needed a full size laptop because the little netbook she bought turned out to be not fitting for her needs.
She looked around and [...]]]></description>
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