Computer Health Check & How to Guides
Why not give your pc a complete computer health check, make it run faster, iron
out it's problems and learn how to do much more, many more related articles at
the bottom of the page ..
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 you have already begun to slow down your computer.
Give it a few months and unless you perform a frequent maintenance checks for
fragmentation , errors , unused files such as general temp files , temporary
internet files , odds and ends left behind from uninstalls , it will get slower,
so a good computer health check that covers everything is a must to keep any
computer running well.
This is guaranteed
Today mid and high end computers are pretty damn fast , but they still suffer
from the same performance degrading problems as all of the earlier models, the
only difference being, they are so much faster , this then means the performance
degradation also happens much faster.
A good complete computer health check should include operating system maintenance such as defragmenting or removing unused files all
helps.
There are a number of ways to perform a complete computer health check , check
out our guides below.
Some software and hardware problems are hard to pin point they can either be
very intermittent or it looks like it might be one thing and then, of course
something else happens, so it looks like something else.
We are at present putting together a list of common problems and issues, both
hardware and software ,
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but in the meantime , those nice people at Microsoft have given us an array of
tools and utilities such as scandisk and system restore , built into the
operating system. Check these out below.
If you have a problem with your computer, drop us a line and we’ll add it to our
page for you,
What is the best way to get your computer to run faster ? ,
Generally you have a couple of choices, you can either choose to replace the
whole computer or , upgrade your systems bottle necks or weak links.
Remember a computer is only as fast as it’s slowest
component.
NOTE..
Remember the expression , there’s no such thing as a free lunch , this goes
for software too.
If you install some free software , make sure it does not install anything else
, usually spyware .
On this very day I installed some software that was freeware , it actually
quoted spyware free but after installing I began to get pop-ups ,
Running a spyware scan I then found something called Adware.Blockchecker
this is spyware , it also sets it’s self up as an exclusion to your firewall
software , “ pretty cunning & nasty “
Ok you’ve looked into various reasons why a computer can run slow or crash and
the bottom line is , if you want your computer to run as fast as it should, then
your computer health check has to be complete. computer health check article
Hard Drive Computer Health Check Help & Tips
Cleaning
hard drive computer health check tips for speed and reliability
Cleaning a hard drive can offer many benefits such as a speed increase, better
resiliency and even better battery life on laptops if the hard drive does not
have to work so hard ..
Running
scandisk on your hard drive
If your computer is experiencing problems such as frequent
crashes, slowness running scandisk across the hard drive is the first level of
maintenance to run, run out more..
Hard drive
installing tips
If your hard drive is running slower than it should read more on
how to tune it such as changing data channels and more ..
Erasing a
hard drive
Erasing a hard drive enables us to setup a drive exactly the way
we want in terms of format, to go one step further and partition a drive ..
Format hard
drive
Find out how to format your hard drive and which file formats are
best for your needs ..
Windows How To
Windows system restore
If your having Windows problems system restore might be
just the answer, find out how to restore your computer to an earlier time..
Backup / image
hard drive
Imagine being able to completely rebuild your computer the
way you want in in around 30 minutes, hard drive imaging makes this possible ..
XP repair
Before completely rebuilding your computer why not attempt a system repair not
only does it make it possible to repair 90% of Windows problems, but it's also
much quicker than completely rebuilding your system ..
How
to install Windows XP
Find out how easy it is to install Windows XP from scratch with our FREE guides
..
Screen dumps /
capturing windows
A screen dump enables you to capture the
current image on your computer screen, taking a Screen capture or dump is always
a very useful piece of knowledge to have, some documents are protected against
direct copying or printing which can be very frustrating ..
Creating
a windows shutdown or restart button
Looking for a fast and simple way to restart or shutdown Windows with a single
click, find out how to setup desktop buttons to do this ..
Convert
your system from fat32 to ntfs
find out what's better FAT32 or NTFS, why should be convert to
NTFS ? and find out why ..
Find
out the correct way to delete or remove windows user profiles
By simply deleting a Windows user profile is a messy process, not
only does it leave file fragments, but it also leaves invalid registry entries,
find out how to delete or remove them correctly computer health check article ..
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Pc remote
control
Imagine being able to remotely control a computer anywhere in the
world just as if you were sat in front of it, Windows offers us this
funtionality, but checkout some of the other packages on offer as well..
Using
windows remote desktop connection software
Find out how to use the windows remote desktop control software
which is built into Windows XP & Vista, checkout our free guides ..
Building a cheap media centre computer
Just adding the words media centre computer adds bucks to a computer, but
what's the difference between a standard pc and a media centre, checkout our
guide where we cover this and how to build your own on a budget ..
Install all codecs
Getting Windows media player to play all needed media files can be a headache,
of course we can opt for another video player, but what if your limited as you
need to use Media centre, find out why we should not install all codecs and how
to install exactly what's needed ..
Basic
CPU overclocking
What is basic cpu overclocking ?
How can you do this ? What are the risks ? What do you need to look out for ?
How to use
WiFi
Find out more about using WiFi and how to get the most from it, make sure it's
working to it's best ..
Beginners guide to databases
Regardless of what you want to catalog index or store a database
can make it easy, one of the best things about a database is the ease at which
we can search for specific data, find out more ..
Customize your computer
Find out how to customize your computer using software such as
the quick launch group, set your internet favorites as your home page, plus more
..
Searching a
computer
Find out how to do a custom hard drive search, more here ..
Computer
questions we've been asked
View our most common questions & answers covering a wide range of
computer hardware & software, feel free to ask us questions too..
Cleaning
computer RAM
Is your computer freezing for no
apparent reason? Like most electrical connections if it's not a permanent
connection over a short space of time the connections can begin to dull or
tarnish, this in turn leads to poor conductivity between contacts.
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article
Password protect Outlook pst or personal folders
If you need to password protect folders
within Outlook this can be done a number of ways, probably the easiest would be
to keep everything within your mailbox, so then it’s stored on the server.
OST to
PST converting
Find out if it's possible to convert an Microsoft Outlook OST offline folder to
PST personal folder ..
Outlook cannot add contacts as address book
one symptom of this is when you see the option Show this folder as an e-mail
address book is grayed out.
This in turn stops us from being able to create new emails and resolve the
recipients address to an address in our Contacts.
Outlook
PST / personal folder password recovery
If you have a password protected
Outlook personal folder or PST that you can’t gain access to, the following PST
/ personal folder password recovery tips may be able to help.
Copying Yahoo messenger profiles
Transferring Yahoo messenger settings is
easy to do even if you don't remember your password, find out more here ..
Free up
disk space on your pc
If your computer has low disk
space this can be the cause of other problems such as a slowness, system lockups
and crashes, plus of course the inability to save files to your hard drive if
they are larger than the remaining disk space.
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How to backup
files
Backups are a vital part of any
disaster recovery plan, of course a restore should only be a last resort, but
it’s something that needs to be put in place before the worst happens.
Windows
XP administrator accounts
Increase your user access find out about setting up Administrator access on your
computer ..
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