Category Archives: Diagnostics
Abruptly shuts down.
Hi, I run a windows 7 64 bit edition on a desktop. – 8 GB ram, Quadcore system with dual graphics card. For the past week or two, my computer was freezing up after about a couple of hours of use. I attributed this to over heating etc, because after waiting for a while and [...]
Laptop and Desktop Computers Slow Performance
Sluggish or slow desktop or laptop performance can be attributed to lots of different things, but if your finding slow performance after your computer has been switched on for a few hours this may well indicate a cooling issue. Generally the longer a computer is kept on the warmer it will become, especially if it’s [...]
Wrong CPU Speed Getting Accurate CPU information
If you have a new computer utilizing the one of the latest generation of processors you might be disappointed when you find out that its apparently reporting the wrong CPU speed , to be more accurate its actually not giving wrong CPU information its very accurate. Why does it do this? This is all to [...]
Disk Partition Management
An extra disk partition can make a computer look as though it has more than one hard drive, as in effect a hard drive can be broken down in many partitions each with a unique drive letter for example. If we have a 100gb hard drive and we choose to create 2 partitions, one with [...]
Pc Booster
Checkout our pc booster to make your pc run faster If your computer is running slow there’s no reason why you can’t improve it’s performance significantly. Especially if it’s never been cleaned up or tuned there are a number of ways to do this, but they fall into two categories hardware and software , Here [...]
Part 3 Cleaning up your Computer
For more on cleaning up your computer Checkout our earlier articles. 9. Old User Accounts Did you inherit a computer, or has anyone else been logging onto it using a different username/account? If so removing unused user accounts is a great way to free up hard drive disk space. When removing a user account its [...]
How to Repair OST Files
How to repair OST (Outlook offline folder) If you’re using an Exchange server or any other server that stores a copy of your emails on the actual server itself the OST file will only contain a copy of the server, if this is the case I will always go to the OST file location and [...]
Running Windows Chkdsk or Checkdisk
Using Windows Chkdsk or checkdisk should be the first line of defence When analysing or troubleshooting Windows disk errors and it is always useful to run this as a preventative measure to help safe guard against possible disk errors. Using Windows Checkdisk is a simple fix that can in many cases revive or fix many [...]
ESD Computer Damage How can you reduce the risk ?
ESD Computer damage is one of the most common reasons for hardware failures in computers – ESD or Electro Static Discharge can damage just about any electronic component is less than a second, make sure your computer is protected against static electricity damage. How many people give a thought to Electro Static Discharge ESD computer [...]
10 Steps to Declutter a Computer
Need to declutter a computer ? What’s involved ? How easy is it ? A computer that is cluttered up will generally run slower, not be as resilient and of course will have less disk space than it should. When a computer starts to slow down; and they all do to a certain degree as [...]
Reinstall Internet Explorer version 6 & 7
A reinstall of Internet Explorer can fix a whole multitude of browser related issues such as slowness, missing or corrupt files. To reinstall Internet Explorer you first need to ascertain which version your computer is running . To find the version of internet explorer launch and go to the Tools menu > Help > About [...]
Headaches and Computer Monitors
Headaches and computer monitors are a very frequent occurrence, but there are a number of steps that can be taken to help prevent this. Monitor Images To one degree or another the image of the monitor is the biggest culprit when it comes to headaches and computer monitors. This includes the following. Screen resolution If [...]
Motherboard Diagnostic Card Basics
The motherboard diagnostic card is nothing new, but the computer diagnostic card has changed recently, not only is it now available as a USB device which means it can easily be swapped between any computer with a USB port, but the interface is now usable without a degree in computer science, plus we have seen [...]
Computer Health Check & How to Guides
Windows XP tips tweaks , make your pc run faster, iron out it’s problems and learn how to do much more with our totally free articles. A good computer health check covers many aspects of a happy computer. Sadly as soon as you install a new computer or operating system , then install some software [...]
Easy ways of Viewing Computer Configuration
Viewing computer configuration allows us to perform many tasks ranging from simply checking computer specs, fault finding, or even pre checks to find out possible upgrade information such as RAM amount and types, processor types and socket or even which type of USB ports a computer has. There are many different ways to view computer [...]
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