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Problem Self-Help Tips, Techniques, and Warnings For Do-It-Yourself
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Sorting Useful Help from the rest Most of these techniques work with multiple browsers Finding information is not at all difficult However, finding useful information is a bit more difficult Need to learn how to search, and Need to learn where to search
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Starting off with Internet Explorer
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I’m using Google Other search engines MAY work in similar manner, I have not tested them I generally use one of two different search engines: Google Duck Duck Go I don’t Bing, or Yahoo; and especially don’t use shopping oriented search engines
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Exact error message and the powerful site: command
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In Chrome
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in Edge (windows 10)
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In FireFox
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A Search result site:microsoft.com
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Trusted Sites Not all sites can be trusted Some sites deliberately give malicious information or information to push product sales How do I determine whether to trust a site? Manufacturers sites Software Developers sites Malware cure sites
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Trusted site: bleepingcomputer.com
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Bleepingcomputer has a forum
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Malware Bytes Support and Forum
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AVG Support and Forums
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HP Support and Forums
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Several 100 fake security vendors
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Fake product imitating real product
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Error Messages can be helpful Copy the exact error message Or sometimes the error number or code Use that along with the site parameter in your search Some examples follow
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Compatibility Issues
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Warning on changing File Extension
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The ONLY way to figure this one out is to hope a search will answer (unless you are a system level programmer)
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Again, copy the error message for the search
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The Error Code may be helpful
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Then, there are those days …
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Copyright 2015 Jim Cason
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