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How to Prevent Your Computer from Overheating
Keeping your computer running within safe temperatures is important, especially as the temperature rises outside. Here’s how to make sure your computer’s not overheating—and how to fix it if it is.
The cooling system of your computer is one of the most important features of the device. Without the cooling system, the electrical components of your [...]
Problems With Windows? Detecting And Repairing As Easy As “Click, click, fixed!”
Fix It Center is a free program you can download which provides automatic fixes for a wide range of bugs and annoyances. Select the issue you need to fix, click run, and follow the steps. The instructions are very easy to understand. In case a problem exists, Fix It finds it and either automatically fixes [...]
How to Backup Drivers in Windows
When you perform a system format, all the data stored in your operating system drive is cleaned, which means you lose all the software you have installed and the default Windows drivers. After the system format, you can reinstall the latest version of the popular software applications with ease, but this is not the case [...]
10 Biggest Printer Problems And How To Fix Them
Don’t toss your inkjet or laser out the window — you need that printer, after all! Here’s how you can channel your inner tech support rep to repair that which has failed you.
Printers: Can’t live with them, can’t nuke them. You could always toss a misbehaving inkjet or laser out the window, but where would [...]
Make Windows XP Blazingly Fast
I’ve been using Windows since before “Windows for Workgroups 3.x” and have used most of the Windows releases since, on a wide variety of cheaper than cheap computers and platforms that are slower than slow. I’m always interested in new ways to maximize speed and over the years I’ve picked up quite a few little [...]
Don’t wait for your computer to crash and die
A survey done of Staples EasyTechs, indicated that more than 80 percent of the chain’s customers don’t bother with routine maintenance and most of the problems they call in the techs for could have been prevented.
The problems the techs found included the personal record number of viruses cited above as well as some much, much [...]
How to Clean Your Laptop
My main computer is an hp zv5000 - it uses two heat pipes with heat sinks and two fans to cool the processor. Through use, those heat sinks (copper?) and pipes collect quite a bit of dust reducing the machine’s cooling capacity. The more dust that collects inside your computer, the hotter it’ll run. The [...]
How To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast
Windows 7 is Engineered for speed. Special attention has been given by the Windows 7 team for making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating systems. Windows 7 is much faster than Windows Vista, but even then most of us don’t get satisfied with it. There are many who still have their old PC. Installing [...]
Win 7 packed in a complete, easy-to-read guide.
Installing Windows 7 Beta, and Getting It Ready to Use
How To Use Windows 7, or Why The New UI Is So Great
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s biggest user-interface overhaul since Windows 95. It’s no surprise, then, that even Windows veterans could use a crash course on how to use it.
Device Stage Hardware Fun, Plus More Productivity [...]
Clean Up & Enhance The Right Click Context Menu
The right-click context menu is one of the most helpful interface elements in Windows, but sometimes, especially when we have lots of applications installed, it can be slow and filled with shortcuts we don’t actually use. I always wanted to simplify it so that it would include only the options I want to use. After [...]
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