Upgrading to Windows 8 from Windows Vista or XP
Quick article on my first experience upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 8. This falls under the promotion for $39.99, Microsoft will let users upgrade from Windows Vista or Windows XP to Windows 8. Its a really good price to get off of the older versions of Windows onto the latest one. Normally a Windows 7 upgrade kit costs around $140, so the savings is real. I believe this deal is good until January 31, 2013 but I believe they will extend the deal longer. I must say overall the upgrade process was painless. Simply search Google for “windows 8 upgrade” and the...
read moreRegistry Fixes (Windows Only)
Is your computer slow to respond? Does your computer take a long time to boot? Do strange errors pop up at unexpected times? Does your computer freeze or crash often? Do you have trouble adding or removing things from your computer? If you are experiencing these things, then your registry probably needs to be repaired. Although the registry is a vast improvement over its predecessor, there are still technical difficulties with the registry that continue to cause major problems with computer performance. Many people become frustrated and instead purchase a new computer when all they need is to...
read moreHow to Drastically Improve Your Computers Speed with a Solid State Drive
Lets take you through a typical example of how we upgrade the speed on your computer or laptop with a solid state drive. If you don’t know what a solid state drive is, its a new kind of computer hard drive that is significantly faster than the traditional hard drives computers use. The prices of solid state drives have come down so much in the last few years that they are now affordable for consumers ($100-200) Step 1 – Clean up your PC’s unneeded files and programs This step is important to reduce the size of your current drive before you move over to the solid state...
read moreHard Drive Crashes and Recovering the Data
You are at your computer and all of a sudden, your computer flashes black and then the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) appears telling you that you have a fatal error. You try to restart your computer, but unfortunately, the only message you receive is that your computer is unable to boot. Or maybe you are working at your computer and all of a sudden hear a clicking and grinding noise from your hard drive. Your computer shuts down and every time you try to reboot it, all you hear is the clicking noise and all you see is that your computer is unable to boot up. All of your life’s work is...
read moreMigrate Data and Personal Files
You have just purchased a brand new computer and are excited to use it. But all of your favorite programs are on your old computer. Or maybe you just purchased a new, larger hard drive and all of your important work is on your old hard drive. Or maybe you had a severe virus infection and need to save your clean files to a new hard drive. Depending on the operating system of the computers you are moving from and to, transferring everything is not always straightforward. Moving from one operating system to the same operating system on a different computer or on a different hard drive partition...
read moreVirus and Malware Removal
Is your computer acting strangely, responding slowly or doing things you don’t want it to do? If so, your computer may be infected by malware. Malware, shorthand for ‘malicious software’, is computer software written for the purpose of disrupting the operation of a large number of computers, of accessing computers that normally cannot be accessed or of stealing private information. These programs come in several forms: viruses, worms, spyware, adware, rootkits, backdoors or Trojan horses. There is a lot of money in creating and disseminating these types of programs and hackers are...
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