The Arlington Virginia Computer Repair Blog

Spills happen all the time.  Don’t panic, but do act quickly!  The damage can worsen if the spill spreads.  For the purposes of this article we are assuming the liquid was spilled in to the keyboard.  Please only follow these instructions if that is the case.

Sometimes with a vanilla install of Windows XP or Vista you may find that the codecs to play your DVD are not present. You may receive an error message that it cannot locate the proper codec and the DVD won’t play. This can be frustrating because you may not have a commercial DVD player application on hand.