PCaholic Computer Tips
Keep Your PC Hard Drive Clean
The first tip we want to share is concerning keeping your PC clean. Now many of you may be thinking that we are talking about washing your monitor screen, or dusting off your keyboard.
Actually we ARE talking about literal cleaning however, what we are really focusing on, is your hard drive in a literal and non-literal sense.
How many of you have your hard drive crammed under your desk, or hidden behind a door next to your desk?
This is OK however, your PC will needs to be removed and dusted regularly. Simply unplug all of the cords and bring it outside with a can of air air.
Open the case up and blast the dust away! A good rule of the thumb is to focus mainly on the areas where your cooling fans are; usually in the back.
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Review Installed Programs & Defrag Regularly
Another important tip would be to review your installed programs regularly and uninstall ones you either a) no longer use, or b) ones you only use once in a while. Just make sure you have the disks before you uninstall programs you may wish install again at a later time.
Make sure you run your system defragmentor tool regularly. Some individuals run this utility once per week, while others prefer once per month. We recommend not going longer than one month without defragging your system.
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Delete Your Temporary Internet Files
If you are an avid internet user, make sure you delete your temporary internet files regularly. You can do this by clicking “Tools” and “Internet Options” in your Internet Explorer menu bar. Once you delete these files, make sure you also delete your “History” which is also located there.There are also programs that can automatically delete these files for you. As a matter of fact, it is a great idea to have a software program that can permanently delete these files as they contain (in some instances) logins, passwords and other private important data that you don’t want anyone to see or know. Learn More
Protect Yourself From Spyware & Adware
What is SpyWare? SpyWare are small applications that get installed on your PC without you even knowing it that monitor your internet activity and serve you pop-ups and other ad types. Many SpyWare applications will slow your PC down to a crawl.
It is a good idea to scan your PC for these applications and remove them, and to protect yourself from further threats.
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Scan & Maintain Your Windows System Registry
Your system registry is the most important part of your actual operating system. As you install and uninstall programs and delete files, your system registry can become corrupt. Your system registry needs to be scanned and fixed regularly.Luckily there are software applications that can handle all of this for you in 2 minutes flat! SpeedyPC is our recommended choice!
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What do you do if my computer at home has the STOP: C0000218 error and will not boot properly. How do I get this app on my computer?
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please i tried to download a software from the internet to my laptop ,but i keep getting the reply that ” the file is not a valid win 32 application” anytime i download it and i tried to run it, please what can ido? meanwhile i had downloaded it before and deleted it..
Is it safe to give someone my system info file. I purchased and downloaded a program and now it’s acting funny and the tech support want me to email a copy of my system info file? thanks
Hello,
I have an IBM laptop (ThinkPad):
Hard Disk Drive Space Total Size of 142 GB.
Memory: 2 GB.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU; T5250 @ 1.50GHz.
This laptop has been slow for a while and got some sort of delay. I ran an analysis on the C: Drive and the report says that “Data on the C: Drive takes 2 times longer to read and therefore slowing the laptop. The report also says that “The files are defragmented are the cause of this slowness.”. I cleaned the internet cookies/history and I often run the disk clean up option and then restart. I wonder if I need to disable some programs that run in the background under the msconfig.exe option?? Or do you think I should add more memory?? Please advice.
Thank you very much!
Hi, I am a NOVICE PC user & I searched but couldn’t find the forum I needed to post my question and or PC problems in. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP3 with IE7. (Installed IE8 but it wouldn’t run) so I went back to IE7. I use Windows Firewall and I recently upgraded my Security from Avanquest Fix-it Utilities 8 to Avanquest System Suite 9. I have DSL HighSpeed & my ISP is QWEST with MSN Browser which I use as my Home Page. I am completely NOVICE with the configurations and settings under all Tabs in Internet Properties (General through Advanced). I do not know what to enable or disable and or what to check or uncheck. My problems: I never had problems when playing at POGO before but now I get a pop-up error: In order to play Pogo games you need to install the latest version of Java Plug-in,(which I already have). So I verify & tested & I do have the latest version, but I still get the same error when clicking a game. So maybe my settings are not correct. Also, when I am on the Internet my PC sometimes reboots by itself then it will disconnect me from the internet about every 20 to 30 minutes with a Pop-up Error: MSN was unable to load a required library msnmetal.dll; with then, another Pop-up Error: Windows Delayed Write Failed: Windows was unable to save all the data for the file…data has been lost. May be caused by a failure of your hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere. Then, my mouse freezes and I have to reboot. After rebooting; I went to the Control Panel, clicked on the Add/Remove Icon to uninstall Avanquest Sys. Suite 9 because I thought this may be the problem. However, the Add/Remove Page only opened for a split second then I was taken back to the Control Panel. Now I can’t add/remove programs. I rebooted again & ran a deep scan for any AV and or AS using Avanquest System Suite 9. When it finished scanning, it reported: No Problems Found (which I didn’t believe). That is when I Shut Down my PC and will not turned it back on until I get some advice and support from this forum on How-to fix it & or troubleshoot. I am now using my daughter’s VISTA PC which runs great with no problems. THANK-YOU, HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Sincerely, Bonnie Lou
hi,
i am using thunderbid and my inbox file just went deleted.
i am trying to recover it with aything possible, including an editor but when i open it says “invalid access to memory location” any idea how to solve?
thanks!
Help! I lost 15 hours of work editing a book. How can I retrieve this?
I’ve this message when i starting windows, when i first time turn on my laptop “axioo” mnc 820 dual core celeron
The system has recovered from a serious error
A log of this error has been created
BCCode : d1 BCP1 : 0000746E BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000008
BCP4 : 0000746E OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1
I have winxp, ie7, firefox 3.6 and I want to know what processess i can stop or keep from running all the time to help my computer.
I have a program I want to remove but when I try, a box comes up that says “setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”. Is there another way to remove it? I am no longer using it and it slows my computer down because it is such a large program. It was a free Bible commentary of the internet.
Thank you for your time and help.
My wife’s computer has the dreaded blue screen and we try to start it in safe mode with networking but more times than not it will not boot. I wish to log on to windows system32 driver update if I can get on. Do you think that this may solve the problem. Thank you. Ian.
Hello :) I was hoping you may be able to help explain what this error message means and how to fix it. I’m designing a website for a friend and his hosting company loaded Joomla into the CPanel but when I imported the artisteer template this error is now on the home page “Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessageQueue() on a non-object in /home/futurewo/public_html/templates/futurewood2/functions.php on line 17″. I would be so thankful if you are able to help me with this.
Sincerely Theresa