Do you know how a tiny piece of battery that normally cost a few dollars can bring your high-tech PC screeching to a halt? this battery is called CMOS or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. CMOS is just a little battery located... (Continue reading)
The most common problems originate from corruption of the master boot record, FAT, or directory. Those are soft problems which can usually be taken care of with a combination of tools like Fdisk /mbr to refresh the master boot record... (Continue reading)
My college friend called me asking for some advice about the computer she inherited from his brother. She said that whenever she boots she is presented with two boot options. She was annoyed that she doesn’t have a choice but... (Continue reading)
My friend recently uninstalled his two previous antivirus (McAfee and Norton). He said that after he completely uninstalled both AV’s, His Windows Security Center still reported that those programs are still installed on his machine. What I did first was to... (Continue reading)
A client came to my shop asking why he can’t download any files on his computer using Internet Explorer. I check his computer and his browser, all web pages loaded fine, I can even check mails, I can pretty much... (Continue reading)
If you want to make sure that your directx is running perfectly or you want to fix some 3D application problems then running a directx diagnostic is the best solution. To start the diagnostic, click on Start –> Run then type... (Continue reading)
A friend of mine reach up to me and ask for some advice on how he can solve his memory low problem on his old Pentium 4 machine. When this problem appears he can’t use his computer, all he can... (Continue reading)
When our system encounters an error we normally opt to choose to just format our disk and prepare another clean installation of Windows and all of our programs. But engaging to that process of bringing Windows back to life is... (Continue reading)
Just this morning while I was about to print some documents, I encounter a E27 error on my Canon Pixma MP145 all-in-one printer. This type of error occurs when your waste ink absorber is full. The first thing I did... (Continue reading)
This afternoon I came to visit my friend’s place. I saw him updating his computers to service pack 3. All went well expect for the thrid PC, he received an “Access Denied” error message. What I did to help him... (Continue reading)