• Your Keyboard is Worse than Your Toilet

    12Dec
    Categories: Hardware, PC Info, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips Comments: 0

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    I have to admit, I haven’t cleaned my keyboard since I opened the box. No, don’t ask me how many months ago that was—it’s in years.

    After reading this article I got scared pretty quick.

    A desk is capable of supporting 10 million microbes and the average office contains 20,961 microbes per square inch, according to research.

    The key offenders are telephones, which harbour up to 25,127 microbes per square inch, keyboards 3,295 and computer mice 1,676.

    By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 microbes per square inch, the survey showed.

    Immediately I googled the web like crazy until someone was able to show me how to PROPERLY clean my keyboard (that is if I ever bother to clean it at all). What? You thought your keyboard was self-cleaning? Time to get on your knees boy and start some scrubbing. Read this article

  • Slow PC – Too many Files ?!?!?

    22Mar
    Categories: Hardware, Information, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips, PC Troubleshooting Tips, Windows XP Comments: 0

    crammedharddriveHard drivesare quite reliable, so reliable today that they have gotten cheaper and better, lasting longer than their predecessors. Along with the many innovations, they have also grown in terms of data density or the amount of data that can be stored within the same footprint. Having a Pentium 4 that you bought a couple of years back might still be working right but as you may have noticed, it may have gotten a tad bit too slow. Read more »

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