15 free tools to pimp your old computer

Got an aging Windows laptop or desktop computer, but money’s too tight to buy a new one? Fret not. There’s plenty of life in your old PC. It may seem sluggish and on the point of expiring, and its hard disk may be nearly full to bursting, but there’s plenty you can do to clean [...]

How To Manage Windows Vista Services

Services in Windows are quite a controversial topic for various reasons. In this article I will try to clarify them as much as possible. Therefore, I will describe what services are, how they work and where to find the list of services installed in Windows Vista. At the end, I will show you how to [...]

10 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer

There is nothing more frustrating on this Earth than a slow computer — especially in these tough economic times, when running out and buying a new high-end PC is not necessarily an option. But here’s the good news: There is plenty you can do yourself, right now, that’ll speed up your computer. We’ve compiled a [...]

(99) ways to make your computer blazingly fast

Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista.
In this article, [...]

10 lightweight apps to make older PCs fly

Your desktop PC might have been slim and speedy five years ago

How to use the Task Manager

If your PC starts to slow down after you’ve been using it for a while, or one or more programs completely stop responding, you can use the Task Manager, a utility built into Windows, to help regain some of your system resources

Why defragmentation is so important for your PC

Everyone who owns a computer for a some time, knows (or will), that eventually needs to defragment the hard drive. When we use the computer more and more, files become disordered  and our system slows down as a result. Why?

MSConfig - how to use it efficiently

Built into Windows is a special tool called the "Microsoft System Configuration Utility" or simply "MSCONFIG." Designed to help you troubleshoot problems with your computer, can also be used to ensure that your computer boots faster and crashes less. Most people know that the more programs you have running on your computer [...]

When Your Wife Is Right - How To Prevent Computer Problems

My wife has got her own laptop computer. She uses it every day to work and learn. Just as everybody. Whenever I use her computer I am always inspired by how good it works. Why? Well, the machine has twice weaker processor than mine, twice less of RAM, almost 2 times smaller of a disk. Her laptop and mine both have Windows Vista installed and both are the same brand and series. How is it possible that her laptop works faster and better, boots quicker and does not crash? I also have to add that she has no knowledge whatsoever of computers, all interventions in case of problems or installations are done by me. She merely uses it?

GMail 2 (new) crashes Firefox - solution

Few solutions has helped in my case:

just switch to old GMail version - it sounds like a joke