Despite what anyone tells you, troubleshooting a desktop computer is usually a very straightforward thing. There are just 10 “moving” parts to a standard desktop or tower PC. A laptop has exactly the same parts (if you exclude the “built-in” screen, keyboard and glidepad)only miniaturized and squeezed into a much smaller case. The Ten...
PC Clean Up and Maintenance Techniques Delete all old programs Go to “Start > Programs” and use the “uninstall” tools on any old applications that you or your family no longer needs. If a program doesn’t have an uninstall program, then go to “Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs”. Remove any programs here...
Do You Ever Degunk Your PC? “It’s like a closet…your hard drive is like a closet. You can’t keep putting all these programs in here. You have to clean stuff out every now and then.”, I kept telling him. But he would just nod and smile. He wasn’t getting it. He was an older...
