It used to be that defragging your hard drive was the best thing you could really do to speed up your computer. Since defragging the disk won't do as much to improve Windows 7 performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing. How To Speed Up Windows 7 1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, … [Read more...]
87 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I find that if I am using a lot of Windows shortcuts and am avoiding the mouse as much as possible that I can double my effectiveness on the computer. Everytime that you take your hand off the keyboard to use the mouse, you will need to go back and reset your hands on the keyboard. … [Read more...]
Fixing Windows 7 Tips
While the latest windows version is Windows 8 or even 8.1 there are a lot of people still using windows 7 which is still chock full of features, functions, and capabilities. Still there are plenty of problems and errors that could arise which can cause all sorts of headaches for users meaning you need fixing Windows 7 tips. There are many ways to repair and fix windows 7 and any one of these solutions will work. Fixing Windows 7 … [Read more...]
10 reasons why PCs crash you must Know
Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? Hardware conflict The number one … [Read more...]
First Windows 8 Experience
Well Windows 8 is out soon and wow is it going to change things. I just finally got a chance this weekend to check out the Windows 8 Preview from within a VM on my computer and here are my initial thoughts. Log on with your Live account - I logged in with my throwaway Hotmail account when it asked me too. This should be interesting as hopefully we can link our email to our Windows account just like a domain will bring policies and save … [Read more...]
Google Chrome Internet Browser
Today, apparently, Google will be making available a new web browser called Google Chrome. Check it out when it comes out. I am not sure what Google can offer to make me move from FireFox, I am a web junkie and all the extensions that FireFox gives me are something that I can not live online without now. Saying that though I am still very excited as a company as big and innovative as Google could have a lot of ideas inside that no one has … [Read more...]
Caught A Virus?
If you've let your guard down--or even if you haven't--it can be hard to tell if your PC is infected. Here's what to do if you suspect the worst. Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you'll lose all your data, and you'll incur the wrath of every e-mail buddy you unknowingly infect because of your carelessness. You know they're right. Yet for one reason or another, … [Read more...]
burn a bin file with cue file.
You do exactly the same as for iso files, but when you click on "burn image," you don't browse to the bin itself, but instead to the cue file, and you open that one. When the writer starts to burn, it will automatically search for the bin file and start burning it. In fact, the cue file tells the burning program where it can find the bin file that is attached to it. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you use the right cue file when you burn a bin. i.e … [Read more...]
Acronis True Image
I first heard about and used Acronis True Image a couple of years ago. I used the desktop imaging software as an option to Norton Ghost and PQDI I had used PQDI Image Center in the past and was pretty happy with it so at the time I did not really care much about Acronis although it seemed to work well. No I see that Acronis has released version 9 if True Image and the software is a great piece of software that is full of features. I especially … [Read more...]
New Apple stuff
Well I did not really know where to categorize this stuff But i was just listening to the announcements from Apple and wanted to driop the highlights somewhere on the blog.... Well there are some updates but most exciting is a new set top box coming out in the first quarter of 2007 Nano All models are 52% smaller in volume than previous nano. new charger, new armband, new lanyard 8GB is $249 in all colors 4GB is $199 in all colors but … [Read more...]
