Archive for the ‘PC Tips’ Category
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
How to Speed Up Your Computer by Defragmenting Your Hard Drive
At various times on a Windows PC, a disk defragmentation is needed to regain hard drive performance which will speed up the over-all performance of your computer.
Disk Defragmentation may be defined as a process that reduces the amount of file ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
A large percentage of malware or computer viruses come from email messages. Let’s face it, email keeps our society running and without it we could not function from day to day. There are ways that we can have a more secure environment which could assist not only home computer users ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Does your computer startup to slow down or hang when you shut it down or start it up?
The boot or startup process seems to be such a system resource intensive task that causes errors, prevents programs from closing or you may even get the dreaded blue-screen-of-death. At shutdown of your ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Have you ever run into a situation where you get an alert message that says "Task Manager bad been disabled by your administrator"?
You may encounter this if you are not logged in as the administrator on a particular PC running Windows. Many times you may feel that it is necessary ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Does your system run slow at times or does it take forever to boot up?
You are not alone, many of us face this issue at times and our computer may require some “spring cleaning†to get it running faster and more stable.
If you run Windows 9x/Me or Windows XP/Vista ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Do you suspect that your network has a security hole or is vulnerable to an attack by an outside computer user? If so, then you are in good company with thousands of other computer users.
With any type of network, it is not an obvious way of assuring that it ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Regedit, which is built-in in Windows 2000, XP and Vista, enables you to view, find, and modify settings in your system registry. A registry contains information about how your computer runs. Regedit can be very risky so make sure to back up, export everything before you change anything.
1. Click Start, ...
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