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Kevin Federline’s brand up to this point has consisted of: loser, free loader, nasty, and low life. This time though he has actually created something that is getting positive feedback, that’s great for him. It’s cool to see someone recreating their personal brand and getting positive feedback.

You might have heard of this marketing stunt. It’s a bad example of Brand Hacking. The idea is to tell a Story, not create a Drama.

I’ve had a ton of trouble with QuickBooks lately, it was almost time to call in the QuickBooks Queen, but alas I solved the slow QuickBooks mystery.

Here’s the scanario: Computer A hosted the QuickBooks company file and ran QuickBooks. Computer B ran QuickBooks locally, but pulled the data from Computer A. Both computers were had the same hardware specs and all other programs worked normally, except QuickBooks.

Symptoms: QuickBooks opened terribly slow after logon…32 seconds to be exact after entering the password. When switching company files it was the same thing, 32 seconds. (Keep in mind these are good computers with a lot of RAM and Processor power).

What we found: Computer A happened to also be the Spector CNE server and Computer A & B both had the Spector Recorders installed and reporting data to Computer A. When we uninstalled the recorder from Computer B the QuickBooks company file would open the file from Computer A 10 times faster.

The problem: Apparently if you host the QuickBooks file on a computer and that computer is also the Spector CNE server, and if the other computer wanting to open QuickBooks has the Spector CNE recorder then the performance of QuickBooks is degraded. It seemed that even if I switched the files around so that Computer A was pulling the data from B that there was still a performance issue, so I think that if you have Spector CNE Recorder installed at all then QuickBooks seems to take a hit over the network.

I usually hate it when I have to reinstall QuickBooks and wait for all of the updates to load. It seems to take forever. I finally figured out that the QuickBooks updates are stored in a folder and all you have to do is back it up and restore it after the reinstall. Here are the steps:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks Pro\Components\DownloadQBxx folder (the xx is two numbers that vary by QuickBooks version) and back this folder up.


2. Once you reinstall QuickBooks you then can copy the DownloadQBxx folder over the top of the newly installed folder


3. Open QuickBooks and it will load the updates.

At the opening of a Microsoft global technical center in Bucharest, Romanian President Traian Basescu confesses to Bill Gates:

Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania. It helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry, which has become famous around the world … Ten years ago, it was an investment in Romania’s friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates.

Bill Gates didn’t respond, but answering a question said Vista is so secure it could run life support systems. kNox jokes that this would really give a new meaning to the “Blue Screen of Death“.