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Today, February 28, 2017, Large Internet Outage

If you had some issues today with your internet connection either being slow or not connecting/working at all, it was more than likely due to the fact that Amazon had an outage with their S3 Web Services. If you are interested in reading more about this, here are a couple of links: TechCrunch Business Insider At this point in time, Amazon is announcing that everything is working nominally at their end....

Windows 7 Updates Won’t Work or are Terribly Slow

For those of you who have older hardware and are sticking with Windows 7, this may help you out if you ever re-image/start over with your computer or just can't get Windows 7 Updates to install/work anymore. One of the main causes of this is that the new Microsoft update process requires the latest version of .NET Framework to be installed.  This is one of those chicken/egg problems as eventually the update process will install the proper version, but typically, the update process slows down or even errors out before this can get installed. Now the other issue, is that you will need Windows 7 SP1 installed before you can install the updated .NET Framework.  You can use the following link to get SP1 (as well as any troubleshooting you may need in order to get this...