Basic PC Troubleshooting

• Avast: Free Anti-Virus Software for your PC

  10May
  Categories: PC Info, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  

  To ensure the top quality performance rendered by our personal computers, we should make sure that we have the most up to date anti-virus softwares. Our anti-virus softwares installed on our computes will be the one to protect our precious computers from threats and viruses. We all know how expensive premium anti-virus softwares can be these days. But don’t fret anymore because there are free anti-virus softwares out there just like Avast Home Edition which I am using for years on my personal computer. The free version of Avast is very much reliable as updates are released often and the software auto-updates itself. With this software, you are sure that your computer is safe from viruses that can degrade the quality of performance your computers is rendering.

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• Stubborn OS – Downgrade it!

  23May
  Categories: PC Info, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips, PC Troubleshooting Tips, Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  It has happened with Vista and is seemingly also being built into Windows 7, the ability to downgrade should the user deem it too stubborn or complicated to use. The beta-testing of Win 7 is already underway and it seemingly looks nice yet Microsoft is again taking no chances by building into the OS a downgrade feature should it suffer a catastrophic failure. Operating system’s are normally better as time goes by and as with Vista, time was not on it’s side that people simply refused to bite into their many advantages (if that’s what they called them). Read more »

• Microsoft Makes it Known – Windows 7 In the Works

  23Apr
  Categories: Information, Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  Microsoft is again trying to mend its ways and maybe has learned a thing or two about the failure of Vista to re-take the world by storm as a new and improved version of XP. It failed miserably and before you know it, people who got their new pc’s pre-installed with Vista were downgrading back to XP. Vista was designed to be more secure than XP, it was, the only problem, it was too secure, asking questions at each and every way of previously already automated tasks nobody cared about them anymore. Read more »

• Updating and running your anti-virus

  11Feb
  Categories: PC Maintenance Tips, Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  Many people underestimate the importance of updating their anti-virus definitions and usually end up getting infected by some random trojan or worm when it could ave been perfectly preventable by a simple update of definitions.

  Anti-virus programs are very simple to update – some even do the updating for you. But if that’s not the case, you can always update at least twice a week manually, of you feel that updating everyday is too much of a hassle. You should also do a full scan of your computer at least twice a month to make sure that everything’s free from any lurking viruses. Also remember to do a full scan of any portable hard disks or flash drives that you’re plugging into your desktop computer or laptop.

• XP to get Extended Life?

  09Jan
  Categories: PC Maintenance Tips, Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  XP support services is set to go offline this mid-year to the disdain of many PC users all over the globe. With moves and petitions to bolster a move to get that deadline extended, they have fallen on deaf ears. While the market may become deprived of the said support systems, XP is still going to ship with new HP laptops till 2010 according to industry insiders who have negotiated with Microsoft for the said service extension. this comes as a blow to the software giant who has been hoping for similar progress with their Vista Operating system but with no bites. Read more »

• AVG AntiVirus Review

  29May
  Categories: PC Tips, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  

  If you’re a Windows user, chances are you also run an antivirus software from startup. Windows is, after all, known for its security vulnerabilities, particularly in terms of malware.

  One of our favorite virus scanners is AVG. Not only is it free, but it also has various features that make it better than many others out there.

  First, it’s a small download. You don’t have to wait hours just for the installation file to finish. It’s also very quick to install. You don’t have to wait 30 minutes before installation is thru. It just takes a couple of minutes. Then, it’s not as bloated as other antivirus software. AVG’s software footprint is just about 20 Megs in your RAM. You also get daily updates and daily scheduled scans.

  Not bad for a free product!

  Best thing I like about AVG is that it is pretty fast. It’s not a resource hog and it doens’t take forever to load to memory everytime I start up the PC.