It seems that every day we go online and there’s some new type of nagging Web annoyance to deal with. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to worry about auto-playing video ads, leaping pay walls to read the news, fake emails phishing for our bank details, or Farmville spam from Facebook. But for now, [...]
Windows 7 does a pretty good job of detecting applications made for older Windows versions and offering a compatibility fix. If you’ve got an app that just won’t run, though, take a dive into the Compatibility Mode’s deeper settings for a solution.
Mysticgeek writes at the How-To Geek’s home away from Lifehacker about the ins and [...]
When you are on your computer and walk away from it for a few minutes, on returning, it appears your computer has gone into power saving mode. In other words it has gone to sleep. This is all fine, providing you can now wake your computer from this deep power saving sleep.
Too [...]
Ruption18 asked the Answer Line forum what regular chores will keep his PC healthy.
Back in December, I recommended ways to remind yourself to do regular PC maintenance tasks. But I neglected to discuss the actual tasks.
Here they are:
var addthis_language = ‘en’;
Recently in my organization, I came across a workstation that would flip a blue screen when trying to save an office document to the network. The usual investigation began for viruses and spyware on the computer, which yielded a few cookies and some pop-ups,but nothing that a thorough scan could not [...]