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Call of Duty is a hit video game played by gamers all around the world. Some CoD players and Battlefield 3 too with NVIDIA graphics card have experienced sporadic crashes while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II.  As the current cause of the issue isn’t fully known, the issue …

If you have a NVIDIA graphics card installed on your system, you’ll notice processes and services like nvbackend.exe, Nvidia Streamer Service, nvcpl.exe, etc. These files are packages that come when you install your video card driver and they come with additional programs which are required to operate the card at …

It is expected that whenever you set up a wireless internet connection, your devices will be able to access the World Wide Web so long as you provide the correct password or the correct login information. However, in some cases, users complain the lack of internet access despite the Wi-Fi …

In any steam game, you can click a hot key (default is F12) to snap a screenshot of the current in-game screen. You can publish this screenshot in your Steam profile or upload it on other social media forums. However, sometimes you may face the problem being unable to locate …

When installing or updating a steam game, the console displays an error message as follows: An error has occurred while installing [game title]. An error has occurred while updating [game title]. This is a very common error which occurs when steam is unable to perform complete installation or updating. There …

Sometimes when updating a steam game, an error comes forward. The window displays: An error occurred while updating [game] (Content file locked) This means that Steam can’t write update files to the hard disk. There may be many solutions for this error. The most effective one is to uninstall Steam …

Adventure Capitalist is a free game available on Steam. It is considered as an idle game in theory i.e. it plays itself. It is available on various platforms including Linux, OS X and Adobe Flash. It allows players to invest money in certain investments for revenue starting from a lemonade …

Chrome OS is a fairly minimalistic operating system, and is mainly designed for people who want their computers to ‘just work’. To that end, it is also extremely limited in terms of customization and tweaking. However, if you do want to tweak your Chromebook’s settings, install Ubuntu on it, or …

If you like to change the look and feel of your Android device, the easiest way to do it is to download a custom launcher. Today, there are thousands of launchers on the Play Store, and sometimes, it may be tricky to choose the right one for you. Some users …

This is a common thing that people search for – how to use the volume keys to skip tracks on Android devices? Some phone manufacturers have this built into the system, but many do not. So today I am going to show you a few different methods of enabling this …

When your hard disk stops to work due mechanical or electronic problem, you will need to change hard disk. We are recommending you to purchase compatible hard disk with your notebook. After you install hard disk in your notebook, you will need to do clean installation of Windows operating system …

Few users are having problem with launching executable application named pcdrcui.exe, because file is corrupt. Before we show you how to solve issue with corruption of pcdrcui.exe file, we will explain you what is purpose of pcdrcui.exe file. At first you need to know, that pcdrcui.exe is not a part …

Windows update is crucial step you need to do to increase security, reliability and productivity of your operating system. Do not be one of users who is ignoring to do Windows Update. Hackers can do penetration testing of your operating systems, they can find exploits in Windows 7, because you …

BlueStacks is a highly rated Android emulator for PC, but unfortunately it does not offer a pre-rooted version. Looking around the net will show plenty of guides for one-click rooting BlueStacks using a tool like KingoRoot, but I have a moral opposition to recommending KingoRoot to people, for any device …

Windows Experience Index is a Windows feature introduced with Windows Vista which is used to benchmark Windows PCs and offers a score. It was removed from Windows 8.1 and cannot be found in newer versions of Windows as well. However, a couple of people, particularly NVIDIA graphics cards users in …

Woodie Woodie is the 6th unlockable character of the game. He is unlocked by gaining 1600 exp or by surviving 80 days in game. Woodie has 150 health, 150 hunger and 200 sanity. Woodie has a special axe called Lucy the Axe who talks to Woodie and motivates him to …

Winter is one of the two seasons that are in the base game. In Reign of Giants DLC, there are four seasons. If the game starts in autumn, then it will take 21 days for winter to arrive (default settings). Winter will last for 16 days and the player will …

There’s no doubt that smartphones have become a part of our daily routines. A smartphone isn’t just a means to entertainment and time pass, smartphones, nowadays, are being used for businesses, productivity and for various other things. One of the ways that your smartphone can help you get more productive …

If you follow the online presence of Microsoft’s top executives and developers, you’ll notice something that looks like an orchestrated effort. Every once in a while, someone posts something about the importance of having a strong password and how vital it is to change it regularly. Even more, in the …

If you are an Android user, you’ve probably had faced the need for a good file manager. Guess what, there are tons of file managers on the Play Store, and more or less, they all can get the job done. But when you are choosing just one, you must put …

Google Docs has now become one of the most popular text editors for students and professionals alike. Being a Chromebook user myself, Google Docs is my go-to word processor. This means that I spend long hours in front of Google Docs, as does anybody who uses it as their primary …

Unfortunately, today’s devices still run on non-nuclear batteries. As a result, we are forced to constantly charge them every time they run out of power. You probably find yourself checking your phone’s battery percentage a couple of times a day, and find comfort when the battery icon still displays a …

The Media Creation Tool is a very useful asset for any Windows user. It lets you create a bootable CD or USB drive with the setup for your operating system, and then use it for reinstalling or fixing the OS in case something goes wrong. However, there are situations when …

Realtek’s USB card readers can be stubborn sometimes. The issue that happened for quite a few users was that when they inserted their card, everything works. However, once you browse the media or start copying files, the media is lost. The SD card is mounted again after a short while, …

Imagine next scenario. You are working on something important on your computer, for example finishing some project in AutoCAD or Microsoft Visio, or you are writing your first book, and suddenly your home or company lost electricity which results in power outage. You did not except that it will happen …