The blog of Windows Wally, a Windows Support Technician helping common people solve frustrating computer problems.



File Extensions

Autopico.exe - Featured -- Windows Wally

What is Autopico.exe and How To Fix It?

Published on December 14th, 2014 | by Wally Phillips

Reader Question: “Hi Wally, My computer keeps giving me an error saying “autopico.exe is not a valid Win32 application”. Does my computer have a virus? How do I remove it from my computer?“ - Brenda G., USA ... Read More


Computer Upgrades

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How To Fix The AGP_INVALID_ACCESS Error

Published on December 5th, 2014 | by Wally Phillips

Reader Question: “Hi Wally, My computer’s doing weird things since the video card was changed. Now, its showing a blue screen with agp_invalid_access and error code STOP 0×00000104.“ - Diana B., USA Before addressing any computer issue, I ... Read More


Computer Upgrades

DPC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT - Stop Error 0x0000102 - Featured - Windows Wally

How To Fix The DPC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT Error

Published on November 30th, 2014 | by Wally Phillips

Reader Question: “Hi Wally, I recently did some updates and now my computer keeps getting a dpc_watchdog_timeout BSoD error. This sometimes happens when I’m playing a video game. Other times it just happens randomly.” – Mario H., ... Read More


Driver Problems

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How To Fix The BUGCODE NDIS DRIVER Error

Published on November 23rd, 2014 | by Wally Phillips

Reader Question: “Hi Wally, Today when I turned my computer on it crashed while Windows was still loading. I saw this error: BUGCODE_NDIS_DRIVER BSOD. I am using a Windows 8 computer, Please Help me fix this, Thank You.” - Thomas D., Canada ... Read More