computer repair

Data Recovery The Easy And The Hard Way

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We hope that you never need to use any sort of data recovery, but almost everyone does eventually, so here are several different ways to recover your data if it gets deleted or destroyed. Data Recovery The Easiest Way If you accidentally delete a file, you can almost always recover it using the Trash folder [...]

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Warning: Dangerous Way System Administrators Use To Fix Failed Hard Disks

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Sadly, few people make regular and complete backups–so system administrators often need to fix failed hard disks using less than ideal methods. These methods are temporary and designed to quickly get data off a hard drive between the time it fails normally and fails permanently. If you tried all the usual to  fix failed hard [...]

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The Coroner’s Toolkit–How The FBI Recovers Deleted Files Using Free Software

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Bad guys are always trying to cover their tracks by deleting files–so the good guys developed a suite of free tools that let anyone recover deleted files. The tools presented in this article were used in FBI investigations that processed 1,756 terrabytes of data as part of over 4,500 cases in 2009, the most recent [...]

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BoostSpeed 5 Review and Free Software Giveaway

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Have you heard of Auslogic’s BoostSpeed 5 software? I am often asked to review software, however as you have probably noticed, I do not actually do a lot of software reviews. This is usually because the software does not stand out from the crowd, however Boostspeed 5 has caught my eye. I have tested Boostspeed [...]

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The gentle art of trying to understand computer repairs

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If you’ve ever been baffled by the conversation about a car service, as most people have, you’ll be pleased to hear that computer repairs are now almost as difficult. Computer and car owners have one thing in common- They own machines they don’t know a thing about. Most computer users get battered into a level [...]

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My Computer Boots Up To A Black Screen With A Flashing Cursor

December 16, 2010

Amazingly, when it comes to computer errors, getting a black screen with a flashing cursor is far better than just a plain pc blank screen when the computer boots. We have to look on the bright side here and presume that the fact that you can see a flashing cursor is a good sign. At [...]

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Using Windows Remote Assistance To Get Computer Help

August 3, 2010

If you are really stuck with a problem on your computer and you know a friend that might be able to help with computer troubleshooting, here is an easy way to allow them to access your computer through remote assistance. Even if they are half way across the world, if they have an internet connection [...]

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I get an error that says, “not enough server storage is available to process this command.”

May 26, 2010

Here is a question: I have two systems networked to share internet connection thru a residential gateway (router). I’m trying to get them to file share but it never works. I look in my workgroup and I see both systems listed, I have the files/folders I want to share enabled, they even show up, but [...]

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How to Know if You Have a Computer Power Supply Problem

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A computer power supply is one of the hardest working components in your computer. It supplies power to the entire computer system. When you have problems with the computer power supply, luckily most of the time it is obvious because there will be no power to your computer. Unfortunately sometimes problems can occur with the [...]

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Computer Will Not Wake up From Power Saving Mode Sleep

May 26, 2010

When you are on your computer and walk away from it for a few minutes, on returning, it appears your computer has gone into power saving mode. In other words it has gone to sleep. This is all fine, providing you can now wake your computer from this deep power saving sleep. Too many computer [...]

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