pc maintenance

This may be off topic from vista but I was just wandering. What temps should I look at? Rite now core0 is at 53C and core1 is at 55C. My office has no cooling or insulation so it can get hot in here. The other day the temps hit 62C and my fans fired up for the first time in the 2 years sence I...

Question: when and how often should one update/upgrade one's bios on there PC? Even if that PC is not having any problems. I am a firm believer in "if it's not broke don't fix it" saying but would like some sort of answer to this question.

A corrupted data file in my PC (Vista 64 bit) makes it impossible to backup my PC. The error message 0x80070570 appears if I try to delete it or move it. I have also tried to delete it from the Safe mode but without success. I am very reluctant to go back to square one reloading everything...

Hi I am feeling a problem with windows vista. Whenever I change power plan from "Power Saver" to "Balanced" or "High Performance" it shuts down within few minutes (Maximum half an hour). I thought my vista operating system has become corrupted so I formatted my PC and installed a new...

Hi guys I think if you've read some of my posts you know exactly how I feel about those Hideous prpgrams that offer to scan your computer for drivers and then come up with all sorts of NAG/SPYWARE usually saying you need to BUY something before you can access the data base etc etc. I REALLY...

These apps will help you keep vista running smooth and are absolutely free. You may find that you already use one or two (as I did) but it's worth checking over the others. I can particularly recommend the defrag utility which works a treat... Enjoy.... Five must-have FREE apps for Windows...

Yesterday was spent removing dust from the inside of the pc although the graphics card had fluff crammed right insde the cooler so had to come off. I eventually took the whole cooler off the card to clean it. This meant that on the rebuild some new Thermal compound was needed (which replaced the...

I have a PC that I bought a little over a year ago, I have Vista home premium on the computer and I have recently been receiving a message that the computer is predicting a hard disk failure. I have backed-up my files onto an external hard drive and I have tried to do a chkdsk scan but it is...

Hi, i just want to know a couple of ways of cleaning ur pc,like what kind of software is good for that or can it be done manually. i mean is system mechanic any good? i just want to keep my laptop fast,clean and running. deleted unwanted files,and etc

hello, my vista locks up after 1 minute or so and i can do nothing, i have to shutdown it with the power button. how do i solve this problem? regards, Deependra