Since DOS doesn’t handle XP or Vista repairs well, each of these discs boots into one of the following three operating systems. It’s good to know a little about them as they might save your bacon in the future.
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If you’re a longtime windows user, You probably encountered these kinds of errors before. Microsoft calls these freeze-frame moments “stop errors,” but everyone else uses a much more descriptive title: The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). They occur whenever Windows senses a problem that won’t let it operate properly.
When you encounter a BSoD, there’s not […]
When a power supply goes bad, the symptoms can be mysterious and confusing. The computer might hang. It might shut off all by itself. It might suddenly reboot. I experienced these symptoms about 6 months ago when an aging system that performed without hiccups for the past year or so started turning itself off at […]
Some of you may have, unfortunately, experienced this on your older system that have been working fine for a long time. One day, it just randomly locks up, requiring a hard reboot. You hit the reset button, and things go smoothly for another few hours (or even days), then it locks up again. The system […]
It happens to even the best of us. You power up your PC and, for one reason or another, it won’t boot into its operating system.
The most frightening scenario is when you press the power button and nothing happens at all. No lights go up, no fans spin, and you don’t hear the familiar chatter […]
If your laptop does not start at all or it starts but will not boot properly, it’s possible that you can fix the laptop at home without taking it to a repair center. Here are some excellent troubleshooting tips for you:
Situation 1.
The laptop appears to be dead. You plug the AC adapter but the LEDs […]
Users tinkering with their Windows Home Servers (WHS) over the holiday weekend might have uncovered a nasty surprise in the form of a file corruption, according to Microsoft. The software giant released a document last week that said users saving information on certain programs were running into problems.
“A few people in the Community Forums have […]
Do you experience frequent OS crashes? Tried checking your OS, updating drivers and running anti virus application but to no avail? Maybe one of your RAM modules is bad or faulty. I’m assuming that you made sure to get a reliable power supply as well.
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If your word processor or some other application repeatedly crashes/locks up Windows or slows it to a crawl, use the program’s own repair tools. Uninstall and reinstall the application only after all of your efforts at repair fail to correct the issue. Make sure to visit the app’s manufacturer/developer site for possible solutions, too.
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What do you do when you receive this kind of error: “Some of my files won’t open. The dialog box says they’re corrupted or unreadable.”
If you just experienced a system crash while a program was writing data to your hard disk, your corrupted file may simply be an isolated incident. Applications such as Microsoft Word […]
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Written by Jesse Middleton [email] for b5media.
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