Microsoft has been receiving so much complaints from their Windows Vista operating system compared to any other previous ones they have released. It’s downsides as a new operating system almost made the old Windows XP flawless. In a short span of time, the Company released a better one, a much faster and efficient operating system known now as the popular Windows 7. As Windows 7 share lots of the previous Vista’s core tech, it doesn’t seem appropriate to even call it just a Vista service pack. No, Windows 7 is the operating system Windows Vista should have been. Clean and glossy graphics and interface with a very significant difference in speed and performance compared to the crappy Vista. Windows 7 is the Microsoft’s eye candy. Continue reading
The Real History of Pop-Up Ads
Pop-up ads are a kind of online promotion on the World Wide Web for the purpose of profit-maximizing web traffic or acquiring email addresses. It operates when websites unfold a new browser window to show advertisements. It normally uses JavaScript but it can be created in other means also. It acquired its name because of its nature that suddenly pops out of nowhere and into the screen giving hints on what you should do or suggesting clicking on buttons it has. Continue reading
The Three Scans that Every Computer Users Should Not Live Without
So you have a computer. Whether it is newly acquired or not, it is your responsibility to take care of it so you will have the best use of the machine. Aside from not spilling any liquids or tiny solid fragments like bread crumbs onto the keyboard or the monitor and maintaining a good ventilation, one must also maintain some up-to-date scanners for the protection of the stored files, programs and others softwares against the ever attacking computer viruses, malwares and other harmful programs that are over the internet. Continue reading
The Truth about Slow Internet Speeds
If you have been wondering why your computer’s internet speed is slow, you must first know if the internet service provider that you got has a fast connection installed in your computer. If they did install the fast one, then you must check the computer’s system to see if it is up for the internet speed. The computer itself affects the internet speed in many different ways. Slow internet speed doesn’t have to be because of the internet service provider. Oftentimes, the internet’s speed is due to hidden factors that are in your computer that you need to know about. Continue reading
The Only Thing Slowing Down your Computer is you!
One of the top things in a computer users top priority list is having a fast computer. In times like this, a fast performing computer comes in handy but some people just don’t know how to use the computer properly thus making the computer slow. Yes, the only thing that is slowing your computer down is you. There are plenty of common mistakes that computer users commit without even knowing that they’re doing things wrong. In this article, we’re going to tackle the things that could be done to prevent a computer to work slowly. Continue reading
The Sound that Will Ruin Any Computer Users Day
There is nothing more painful for a computer users computing life than getting a hard drive failure. There is nothing more frustrating than experiencing a hard drive crash one can have in having a computer. When the ability of the computer to read and access data from the hard drive is rendered useless, the computer almost automatically become as useless as the drive. The only known way to restore the data saved on the particular hard drive is when you have the backup of the hard drive and put it in a new drive for the computer. Continue reading
Top Five Most Annoying Malware Infections
Of all the thousands of malicious software ever to swim the tides of the internet, there are five that I consider most common and most annoying of all. They are the malware types that are commonly called browser redirects, adware, malware infections that will force a countdown to restart, malwares that slows down the computer significantly once it gets infected, and the malwares that slows down the internet speed of the computer to a tediously annoying rate. The days of deleting malwares just by a simple scan and remove in the computer are already long gone as the modern malware has evolved into somewhat nasty bugs in the computing world.
Two-Minute Technique to Improve Startup Speeds
Wondering why starting your computer takes a lot of time? Have you ever asked yourself what has happened to your supposed-to-be fast computer, now that it takes more than five minutes to load up and allow you to navigate the desktop? It is quite annoying when you are hurrying up on doing something online but your machine took ages to finish starting up as it tries to run programs you don’t really need to use at that precise moment. Those programs that load up when you turn your computer on are called startup programs or startup items.
Startup items are the programs that are enabled to automatically run whenever you start to use your computer. These items can be important but others are not necessarily needed every time your computer is turned on. It generally slows your computer down by a multitude as the computer simultaneously runs all those items while boosting itself up. That is the time you have to wait for the computer to finish the entire task while you sit down, helpless and getting annoyed by the minute. This easy, anyone-can-do-it, two-minute technique to improve startup speed is very effective. Continue reading
Laptop or Desktop: Which is the Best Choice for You?
So here we are at the crossroads on which kind of computer to choose. A portable, lightweight, great for mobility kind of computer or a huge, faster, easily upgradable, desktop computer. If you are trying to decide which kind of computer is best for you here are the pros and cons of having a laptop or a desktop computer.
More Simple Changes to Speed up Windows
There are plenty of different methods that one can do to improve their computers overall performance and speed, and to save more resources with regards to the computers CPU or the processor and RAM. So this article is intended to give you more solutions on how to change your computer to speed up Windows. One of these methods is the turning off of the computer’s indexing service in Windows.
For many advanced users, indexing is one of the services run by the processor that is not necessary and can be stopped without affecting the computer systems stability or speed performance. The main purpose of indexing is to help you find the files you are searching for faster in your computer. To stop the Indexing service, you should open up the Services box of windows, just click start and type in Services and the Services will show up. Locate the Indexing Service and click to stop it. That way, the computer can use the resources that service is using to improve performance for a speedy computer. Continue reading
