The Media Access Control address or MAC address, which may also be known as the Ethernet Hardware Address, functions similarly to an IP address in terms of identification; however it is an address that is attached to network adapters.   Knowing your MAC address is important for communication between two different computers or network components.
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An “invalid page fault” error message occurs when the Windows operating system or a third party application tries to call a portion or “chunk” of your computer’s memory that does not exist.  Since the memory block does not exist, the call is invalid and the program will therefore generate this error.  When the error occurs, […]

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Okay, so you’ve probably heard a lot about “dll files” and perhaps you’re wondering what these are?  Without getting overly technical, a DLL file is a supporting library file to an application in Windows.  DLL actually stands for “dynamic link library” and it functions as a “helper” of sorts to another application.  Think of a […]

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Internet Protocol address, or commonly known as IP address, is an address that is uniquely given to a component of a network such as routers, switches, computers, servers, printers, and even some telephones.   This is assigned to each component so they can be identified and will have no problems in remotely communicating with each other.   […]

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