Computer Health Usefulness
Save Your Computer’s Life
Friday, July 11th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.Do you keep your computer in good working order? When was the last time you cleaned out the computer case or keyboard?
This article about cleaning up and prolonging your computer’s life is very informative and something you should seriously think about doing.
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Backup Your Computer Or Suffer a Data Grievance
Friday, July 4th, 2008
When was the last time you backed up your computer data? How many files and folders do you have on your computer? A rough guess will do. Personally I have over 85GB of data, music, Photoshop files and emails that I desperately would not want to lose.
Backing up your data files on Windows is a [...]
Windows Sysinternals Is a Useful Collection of Utilities
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I came across this handy Microsoft [shock, horror!] utilities website recently and thought it was very handy indeed.
There are many handy tools available from checking your internal system clock, monitoring DLL files in real-time [that has been at the top of my list of things to monitor, sort of, well ok not really, but I [...]
Hold On A Minute Before You Upgrade To Windows XP Service Pack 3
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Before you download and install Windows XP Service Pack 3, take a deep breath, think of a tranquil place in your mind and read on. Installing XP SP3 isn’t as easy as actually downloading it and installing it on your computer! No, that would just be too easy…
You may or may not have read about [...]
Tweak XP File Indexing To Speed Up Your Computer
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Here’s another handy little tweak that you can action that will speed up your computer. Windows XP keeps a record of all files on your hard disk[s] to try and improve searching speeds. The drawback to this is that your computer will be indexing all of the files. If you don’t use the search facility very [...]
Windows Service Pack 3 Is Imminent
Friday, April 18th, 2008The beta version of Service pack 3 for XP is out now. The official release date for XP SP3 is rumoured to be made available via Windows Update on April 29 2008. This final service pack update for XP will offer security updates rather than anything else. There will be no cosmetic changes although a [...]
Spring Clean & Speed Up Your Computer For Free
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Spring is just around the corner, although in the UK last week it snowed. Along with cleaning your home or even your car, you should be thinking of spring cleaning your computer. All those files and programs that you no longer need are clogging up your computer and causing it to slow down. Spring cleaning [...]
Microsoft Make Some Tuesdays Worth Remembering
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Patch Tuesday is the 2nd Tuesday of each month where Microsoft release software patches to plug up the security vulnerabilities in their products. Most patches are for 2000, XP and Vista operating systems, whilst the rest are for Microsoft Office or other Microsoft products.
Microsoft does try to keep the patches to the scheduled 2nd Tuesday of [...]
9 Ways to Help Protect Your Computer From Viruses
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I cannot claim credit for this as this is actually from Microsoft themselves! It’s helpful for both XP and Vista users. Some of it is common sense and some blatant plugging for some of their products, but overall some helpful anti-virus advice.
Click here for 9 Ways To Protect Your Computer Against Viruses.