pc maintenance

before installing I had windows xp ,but a new pc (1,5 years) and all were fine .I decided to install windows 7 .Always appeared on my screen blue screens .i understood that the problem was caused by the memory ,I have 3gb or ram installed on my pc ,which is 2gb +1gb.When i uninstalled the 1gb i...

Popped into my local ASDA last night and nabbed some 400ml cans of "Air Duster" used for blowing out all the crap n dust from inside desktop cases etc, absolute bargain at £3 a tin (normally £6), lucky to get 200ml size for that price so get 'em while they on offer folks.

Well I have dropped the ball on my own general PC maintenance of my home network. I have spent the last two days cleaning out pc cases as well as running all maintenance software on my pc's on my network. It's just a family home network of 4 desktops and two laptops, two routers...

All right so i'm usually pretty good at figuring out any problems with my pc but this ones out of my league, plus i think theres a wide range of things that it could be. I have a somewhat old hp media center 7580n (pos, bout 3 years old) upgraded it to windows 7. This problem appeared when...

I have Vista Ultimate and had Office 2000 premium on it and about six months after Office 2007 came out i bought the Prfessional Upgrade version of it and installed it. since then we have moved and also have a ton of boxes from storage. Outlook 2007 had a problem and I can't get in there at...

I used to have windows xp. While using it my computer would occasionally freeze up for a second and then go back to normal. It usually did this about every 10-20 seconds. If I jiggled my hard drive SATA cable the problem would go away and then come back about 1 to 2 weeks later and I would just...

bought samsung R519 250gb excellent laptop with free windows 7 just ordered an upgrade vista home premium £17 registration pap found out paretologic products antivirus and privacy control no longer compatible except driver cure and xoftspy also reg cure are OK they are updating the rest...

Soon I will be switching from RC to Retail version of Windows 7 both 64 bit. Right now I am dual booting and all my software works in both. Is there any practical reason to keep Vista My PC it just went out of warrantee? I want to wipe 7 format it then resize partition for the new install. Joe

Computer stats Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Gigabyte Socket 775 Mobo Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 CPU Nvidia 8800GT 4 GB DDR2 Ram MSI TV Anywhere PCI TV Tuner Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS I have recently beginning with last Thursday been experiencing after a good 4-7 hours of the computer being on a massive spike...

Hello, I'd had a fully working PC when I had XP SP 3. My vcard is a 8800 TS 512. Since I installed Win 7 32bit I've been experiencing this annoying error: "The display driver has stopped but has recovered" I've read through forums and I found that it was a common issue. using older / newer...

Hello all, I've created a new task through the Task Scheduler to reboot my PC weekly. It appears that I created it scheduled it successfully, however, I can not get it to appear in the list of "Active Tasks". Has anyone encountered this? I'm not sure if I'm missing a step, or if it is...

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