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Canon D530 printer drivers for Windows 10 [download]

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UPDATE August 29th, 2020:  Canon changed their driver link on their site, here is the new link to the D530 driver page at Canon.com The URL above lists both the scanner driver and the printer driver. I recommend installing the printer driver first. Also, if you have trouble with the Canon link, the download links below still work! 👍😎 When I upgraded my laptop to Windows 10 (64-bit) and connected my Canon D530 laser printer, Windows could not find the driver

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This app can’t run on your PC Windows 10 [SOLVED]

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If you receive an error message like this: This app can’t run on your PC To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher. Close Then you may want to try re-downloading the installation files. 9 times out of 10, this seems to be the issue. In the above instance, the original installation exe was around 9MB. After redownloading, the completed download size was 30MB. Running the new complete download worked perfectly. So, if you get the

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Pantum 2502W, 2500W and P2200 driver downloads

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Q. Can you help me find a driver that works for my Pantum printer? I do not have the driver DVD and their site is down 🙁 A. Here is the direct download link for Pantum printers: 🙂 dl Mac [download id=”10508″ format=”1″], dl Windows [download id=”10510″ format=”1″] Last updated [date format=”l F jS\\, Y”] There are mirror links (above) if the Pantum site is down, otherwise here are additional links to the Pantum driver site: Pantum P2200-P2500 Windows Driver ZIP Microsoft

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Recover full space on MicroSD card [SOLVED]

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Q. Can you please help me recover the space on one of my microsdxc cards? I installed a custom OS on one with an sd formatter and now it only shows like 1/16th of it’s full size 🙁 I have tried the SD card on my laptop, my Android phone and my tablet. They ALL show the smaller size and don’t allow me to format the full size! Would like to do the recovery on Windows if possible. Thx!!! -Sam Staffton

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Intel NUC Windows drivers [downloads] [SOLVED]

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If you have a NUC with a clean install of Windows 7 (or 8, 8.1 and Windows 10) you may have some unknown devices and devices without drivers. You can download the driver pack here: (Intel dl link) Those drivers will enable the following devices: Ethernet Controller (Intel NUC Gigabit Ethernet Controller) PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1503&SUBSYS_20448086&REV_04 ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18713/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-Windows-7- (Suggested by Greg in the comments) PCI Simple Communications Controller: (Intel Management Engine Interface) PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9C3A&SUBSYS_20548086&REV_04 SM BUS Controller: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9C22&SUBSYS_20548086&REV_04 USB 3.0 controller: (Intel USB

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NUC cannot enter BIOS/UEFI [SOLVED]

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Q. Help! I have a new little Intel NUC computer and I can’t get it to enter the BIOS 🙁 I have a monitor hooked up with HDMI and a keyboard via USB. I checked the keyboard on another computer and it works great, but on the NUC I can never get it to enter the BIOS in time on bootup! Please help! -Richard A. Hi Richard, is that keyboard connected to the back of the NUC? If not, you probably

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Fix Brightness Adjustment Dell Laptop Windows 10 [SOLVED]

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Recently I upgraded three different Dell laptops to Windows 10. The first was a Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1, the 2nd was a Dell Latitude E5450, and the 3rd was a Dell XPS 13 (2015 Infinity Display). While I love Windows 10 so far, there is one major annoyance: brightness adjustment no longer works! i.e. when you press Function Key + Brightness Up/Down, the onscreen brightness meter pops up but the actual brightness adjustment does not work 🙁 Thankfully, after some

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Dell Inspiron 11 3000 SSD upgrade

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The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series is a lovely laptop at a very nice price (~$350 USD). One of the few drawbacks is the slow HDD. Thankfully, that is easily remedied with an SSD upgrade! SSD Upgrade The photos below show how I upgraded my Inspiron 11 3147 with a 7mm Samsung 1TB SSD. Of course the same steps will work for smaller capacity SSDs [128GB, 256GB, 512GB] as well 🙂 Memory Upgrade While you have the machine open, you

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