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I use this program on the down low because sometimes it is my only option. It is called ADW Cleaner, it works wonders in like 20 minutes. It is a free download from bleepingcomputer.com here is the link, let me know if it works for you. Works like a charm for me.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ftc-may-delay-decision-staples-172449824.html

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2817136-ftc-to-delay-deciding-on-staples-office-depot-merger

For people who don't want to register on WSJ's website to read the article.

(Not intended to steal the spotlight from OP)

You mostly learn as you go. Some protips I can offer are:

1. ALWAYS check if the machine is under warrenty before quoting a repair. If it is, and it's a dell or hp, you can just ship it out, or even do it in store for free!

2. ALWAYS ask for a password. this will kill your turn around time when you forget.

3. Never forget; you get paid the same whether they buy a 400$ repair or a free tuneup. Use that to your advantage as a motivator for being honest. People appreciate it when you're straight with them, especially if it saves them money.

4. Hide some generic windows copies around on inconspicuously labeled disks. These will save you weeks of dicking around waiting for disks when a customer loses theirs. XP and vista are really the only two you'll need.

5. Keep a copy of this around too; it is your best friend when some guy brings in a laptop and forgets his own password.

6. Print up virus scan reports and diag reports; customer won't always believe you, but the piece of paper usually convinces them.

7. This one is a bit involved, but there is actually a way to facilitate assurant warranties from the store! Doing this will seriously save face with customers who would otherwise complain about having to do it themselves, and quite frankly, for the amount a warranty costs, they shouldn't have to. Simply, with their permission of course, call assurant and pretend to be them. Tell the assurant tech that the nice boy at staples has already tried everything and recommended depot repair, but you're going out of town and want to ship it from staples, and pick it up from there when you get back. They won't question you for a second, and will ship the box out to your store immediately. This trick worked 100% of the time.

Why wouldn't another screen protector work properly? As trw931 mentioned it's just an extra layer of hardness.. Here's a blog reviewer from 2012 for a version of Liquid Armor... I have it on my Note 5 and have had similar results to this link. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/10/hate-screen-protectors-but-want-to-protect-your-screen-try-liquid-armor

> Here's where the fun starts. This doesn't log just failures. It verbosely logs every single check. The way it's formatted makes it impossible to crtl+f to find which registry key tripped the failure. So you get to skim through all several thousand lines of text it puts out to find which one tripped the failure. Then you can remove the registry key manually and proceed with the install.

For future reference, here's what I do to make things easier:

1. Open the avremove.log file in notepad
2. Find and replace any instance of the string "not found" with something else (I use a # sign myself, but I don't know why, and it doesn't matter, so long as you get rid of all those unnecessary "found" entries)
3. Now search for the word "found"
4. ???
5. Profit.
   

ETA - also check out appremover for cleaning all antivirus programs off of a system. use with caution: we started having students use this before installing sophos one year and we found that on maybe one out of ten uses, it would somehow also nuke the wifi drivers. But it does occasionally come in handy at our help desk.

If it's a local account you can use Offline NT Password Editor, which I'm fairly sure is on the EasyTech Approved software list (in Canada at least, I can't speak to the US policies).
If it's a Microsoft Account, then the easiest way (and only that I know of) is to reset the account password (account.live.com).Then just connect the machine to the Internet and sign in. Edit: At our store, we require that they prove ownership of the machine. For legal reasons, I suggest you do this as well.

if its a MS account I don't know any "legal" software that can remove that, but the customer and you can go through the steps of changing the MS account password on another PC (like the diag or a demo). For local accounts same trick as Vista and 7

http://www.howtogeek.com/96630/how-to-reset-your-forgotten-windows-password-the-easy-way/ you can use the command line in the ETTB PE boot

P.S. Run diskpart and list the volumes first to make sure which drive letter the windows drive is.

I'd recommend getting a Photoshop shortcut cheatsheet/mousepad for that extra edge!

https://www.amazon.com/MSUYAPAD-Photoshop-Keyboard-Shortcuts-Mousepad/dp/B07D69W4ZL/ref=sr\_1\_2?crid=1DODNRBC2RMZ6&keywords=photoshop+shortcuts+cheat+sheet+mouse+pad&qid=1656742664&sprefix=photoshop+shortcuts+cheat+sheet+mouse+pad%2Ca...

well, get a beaded chain thingy for that lanyard so it snaps off if it gets pulled on instead of whatever is on it, here is the cheapest set I could find on amazon for 5 bucks: https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Necklace-Matching-Connectors-Adjustable/dp/B08YMYVXBZ/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=2Y9OGYVCBHWO9&keywords=Beads+Chains+for+dog+tags&qid=1656552403&sprefix=beads+chains+for+dog+tags%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-5

Good idea but my ears are a chewed up mess of hypersensitive scar tissue. Padding is a painful combination of excess weight and surface area. The only earbuds I use are lightweight earbuds.

Those earbuds don't have a microphone. If I connected them to the radio, how would I speak with others? Thanks!

Good idea but my ears are a chewed up mess of hypersensitive scar tissue. Padding is a painful combination of excess weight and surface area. The only earbuds I use are lightweight earbuds.

Those earbuds don't have a microphone. If I connected them to the radio, how would I speak with others? Thanks!

The last offer Groupon had like that was this one that expired in October. I don't remember seeing anything else since then (aside from the 1lb free). https://www.groupon.com/deals/staples-nat-274-cincinnati

WhyNotWin11 2.4.1 app and https://www.hwinfo.com/ 7.1 to get a quick hardware assessment (SMART test, etc) on my RTM Windows 11 USB stick.

My previous to last SSM got me into using HWiNFO as it does CPU, drive and motherboard profiling.

It might be this:

Rocelco 32" Height Adjustable Standing Desk Converter - Quick Sit Stand Up Dual Monitor Riser - Gas Spring Assist Tabletop Computer Workstation - Large Retractable Keyboard Tray - Grey (R ADRG) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJBJG3Z/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_BTGQFP1P2QSTRXMEST4Y

It is available in gray, black, and white.

I honestly disagree. While Staples might have lots of sales online, their profits there are pretty much non-existent. I think most of the online sales are kiosk sales from within the stores themselves (because we have so many out of stock items). "Even though Staples is a pure play office supplies retailer, it does not have the resources or infrastructure to compete against Amazon and Walmart on price. "

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3010826-staples-headed-for-the-waste-bin

Yea there are a couple of ways. You can maintain a slipped image with the cumulative updates already in place. (Do some googling, there are a few ways to do this.)

Or you can just download the updates with a program like WSUS, http://www.wsusoffline.net/

Personally, I carry a slipped ISO of win7 and win8 in a few flavors. We arent running win 10 in my organization yet.

>As far as I've been told, you just add the Kodi software.

Kodi AND Third party addons/then brag about "free tv", "free movies", etc.

>whoever said it was illegal?

Depends where you live:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/kodi_crackdown/

Not to mention eBay, Amazon, XBMC foundation, etc are cracking down on sellers.

Worth reading:

https://kodi.tv/article/piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi

We do password resets all day... only with proof of purchase though! Anything fishy, NOPE! Use the offline NT registry editor, very easy but won't work on Microsoft accounts on windows 8. We used to use ophcrack.

Link http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Easiest tool out there, learn how to use it and keep it for your personal machines lol.

ophcrack doesn't remove passwords, it figures them out. It's much easier for (everything before Windows 8) to just flip a flag that makes the account behave as if it never had a password. These tools are freely available, but NOT kosher to use. Don't get caught.

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

For Windows 8, they switched to Microsoft accounts. These accounts are held offsite on Microsoft's servers, and cracking them locally is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. I honestly don't know about local accounts. For Windows 8, I always do a system restore.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Pitch-Spiral-Binding-100pk/dp/B00AH2RK9A or

https://www.wbmason.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ItemDesc=Spiral-Binding-Company-Inc-Black-Binding-Coils-25mm-1-100-BX&ItemID=SPIR334125BLACK&uom=BX

Here’s the same item on amazon for like $45 you can’t price match this but you could buy this one or one of the others that are cheaper on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2OGTBN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QeenEbBHN6FDB

after looking at these let me know if you have any questions. If you don’t have a basic tech tool kit I use this one myself

Soucolor 41-Piece Precision Screwdriver Set, Magnetic Driver Kit, Repair Tool Kit and Anti-static Wrist Strap for iPhone, Cell Phone, Tablet, iPad, PC, Laptop, MacBook (41 in 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZKQNZ7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UXOaBbKBAAWX3

The small connector is a 2.5mm (TS) while the big one is a 3.5mm (TS).

HWAYO makes a knockoff version of the Motorola earpieces that looks identical to the ones our store uses.

Thank you again for the reminder of Star Points. I finally used my 222 up! I needed a new everyday camera bag and Star Points happily supplied this option to order for 219 points:

https://www.amazon.com/Canon-2400-SLR-Gadget-Cameras/dp/B0002Y5WZM

I would happily send you my three remaining points if there was a way to do so.

Perhaps you can find a place to attach a few electrodes from one of these...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F798R0S

Oh... Here's one on Staples.com:

http://www.staples.com/Ultima-TENS-EMS-Stimulator-Unit/product_134385

It'll perform as well as many older gen core i3 products from a few years ago.

Another budget laptop worth considering (latest gen i3/ddr4 vs ddr3l, more storage, better wireless radio, higher res screen, better battery life):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K1IO3QW

I do freelance phone repair and bought a pair of jeweler's tweezers just for things like this. Every iPhone 6 I've repaired has a working proximity sensor.

I'm heavy, so my heels are what hurt. I got the Spencobecause of the arch supports. Memory foam insoles tend to give me some relief for about two days until they're flat little wafers. :)

These are what I recommend.

I've kind of learned not to trust anything that emphasizes how soft it is. It's usually so soft that it doesn't provide any barrier between my foot and the floor, and there's no support either.

Those I linked are pretty awesome, but they aren't perfect. I've bought so many wal-mart insoles before them, and while they felt soft, both in the package and on my feet, my heels and the ball of my feet still hurt by the end of the day. I've kind of learned that if I can squish them with my finger and they feel good, they're probably not.

I imagine my fingers squeeze with about 10 pounds of pressure at the most, and I'm putting over 200 pounds on the insoles. That's a big difference.

Been wearing these for a few years now. Still going strong! The laces wore out after about a year though, and I replaced them with these.

Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BRUGCC/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1429501362&sr=8-2&keywords=big+o&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&dpPl=1&dpID=5157rAt45nL&ref=plSrch

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So you downloaded LoJack for Mobile Devices and used the keycode and it doesn't work? I did the process on my OnePlus One and ASUS Transformerpad and it worked without a problem.