This guide will show you step-by-step how to update the firmware for the Plextor PX-128M5M mSata solid state drive on a Windows machine, using a USB flash drive – which is much more practical than burning it to a CD disc. Plextor’s PlexTool utility notifies you about new firmware version releases. Great! But it simply downloads it – and you have to burn the tiny ISO yourself. You could just as easily write the ISO to a disc – but why not just one of those USB drives laying around?

If you’ve recently upgraded your Lenovo Y560 Ideapad from Windows 7 to Windows 8, you will bump into problems trying to get the SlideNar/SlideNav installer to work. Launching Installation.exe simply gives an error stating that your Windows version is not supported. Well… it actually does still work! How to enable the Lenovo Y560 Slidebar on Windows 8: Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package ( x86 or x64 ) Download and install the Microsoft Application Verifier utility (http://www.