Odi's Tech Blog

What is Computer Literacy? Literacy when put in simple terms and as defined by ‘ WordWeb ’ is the ability to read and write. Computer Literacy is an essential skill/knowledge needed to cope in this fast paced ever changing world we live in and has become a very important aspect of human development, the need for crisp clear Interactions and the ability to cope/keep abreast in this digital age coupled with the immense benefits attainable. You remember back in Y2K , we had as at that time the Y2K bug era and the call for the Y2k Compliance act, though we still live within the same lines of thought on conforming to recent happenings whilst still in the same century and  if you found this as a form of necessity back in Year 2000 ( if you weren't previously aware of this, visit this link to know more:   A little on the Y2K bug courtesy of britannica.com )   then it’s not any different now, it’s pretty much still the same ball game today as there’s even a more signific

Breaking Out of the Windows 7 Boot Loop The following recommendations/solutions could save you the headache when faced by a repeated boot loop encountered sometimes on the windows 7 operating system and could possibly work for older versions(Vista) and subsequently released windows versions. The reported issue sometimes occur due to corrupted windows files/malicious software. Tools needed: 1. A working DVD Drive 2. A Windows Installer/Repair Disk (DVD) 3. A Recovery partition, where a repair disk may be lacking 4. Average/fair understanding of computers Follow this easy steps: *In my case it was a corrupted winload.exe ( Windows Boot Loader is a small piece of software, called a system loader, that's started by  BOOTMGR , the boot manager used in Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista  operating systems .  The job of winload.exe is to load ntoskrnl.exe, which is a core part of Windows.)  Fix: I located a clean version of winload.exe from "x:winsxs"