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 […]
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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Remember when Windows shipped with the ability to create boot disks? Alas, the days when a program for creating a useful emergency boot floppy are long gone. And those old boot floppies wouldn’t help with XP or Vista–even if you PC had a floppy drive.
Boot from one of the discs that came with your PC, […]
Hey, it happens. Sooner or later you will plug that trusty flash drive of yours into an infected terminal and boom!, you drive is infected. PC World says that “It’s scary just to plug in such a drive. Since most malicious software is OS specific, it’s a good idea to perform the file recovery on […]
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Though it first earned a reputation as a platform for hobbyists and hackers, Linux has come a long way since Linus Torvalds cobbled together the first kernel as a student project. A modern Linux desktop is a sophisticated, user-friendly GUI environment, with features and applications to rival any proprietary OS. […]
There’s been a lot of web talk over the past few weeks over the discovery that Microsoft has been sending out “stealth” software (surprise!) updates that install themselves on users’ computers without informing them or even asking them if they wanted the updates. PC World says that Gregg Keizer over at Computerworld reported on September […]
As the “default” system administrator for your home or small-office network, you’re the person that everyone turns to when PCs contract a virus, can’t print, can’t connect to the Wi-Fi net, or basically when any pc related problem pops up. Dealing with setup problems is bad enough, but what if you’re also the person responsible […]
Benchmarking is done in order to compare how fast/slow your setup, which includes OS and hardware, is to similarly configured systems. This will show if you have optimized your system as much as you can to get the best possible performance from your rig. Applications such as PCMark and 3DMark allow you to benchmark your […]
One handy tool i use for monitoring my local network is Look@Lan. This handy app tells you which PC’s are online/offline, which services are running on the network, traceroutes and ping times for each workstation and so much more.
Look@LAN Network Monitor is a free solution for both personal and commercial use, and is an advanced […]
Don’t you just hate it when you install an OS and it cant recognize some parts of your system? Not only do you need to open your case, in some cases you actually need to screw/unscrew stuff just to properly identify an item. Thank god for Unknown Device Identifier, which identifies those AGP, PCI, IEEE […]
Tips and Tricks to help you Master Your Computer
Written by Sravan Bhamidipati [email] for b5media.
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