Should You Use ReadyBoost on Your PC?

Should You Use ReadyBoost on Your PC? We break it down to 9 simple points With the introduction of Windows 7 came a cool sounding new feature called ReadyBoost. It was the talk for a while about how you could instantly speed up your computer by just plugging in a USB drive and BAM, you have additional RAM to work with! This feature is also available in Windows 8 and Windows 10....

October 20, 2011 · 4 min · 809 words · Kristina Avila

CD/DVD Drive Missing in Windows?

CD/DVD Drive Missing in Windows? Here are a number of different things you can try I recently ran into a problem where my DVD drive on Windows was missing from the list of devices in My Computer. It was there earlier, but simply disappeared! After doing some research, I found a couple of solutions that worked. Unfortunately, the solutions are different depending on which OS you are running: XP, Vista or Windows 7/8/10....

October 19, 2011 · 4 min · 797 words · Danielle Dodson

Fix Internet Explorer 9 Issues

Fix Internet Explorer 9 Issues It seems with every update there are new problems! With every new edition of Internet Explorer, there are always a new set of problems that one must contend with! IE 9 is a good step forward in that it supports many standards and will make designing web pages much easier, but it does have a few technical problems. Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes flash crashes, sometimes webpages don’t display properly, etc!...

October 16, 2011 · 4 min · 737 words · Corey Williams

5 Free Programs to Completely Wipe a Hard Drive

5 Free Programs to Completely Wipe a Hard Drive You get the same results as the paid ones Looking to sell an old computer and want to wipe the hard drive clean before you sell it? Whatever your reason may be, there are lots of programs out there that can help you to not only erase the data on a hard drive, but erase it in such a way that it can never be recovered again....

October 14, 2011 · 5 min · 944 words · Peter Moss

Export, Clear, and Increase Size for Event Logs in Windows

Export, Clear, and Increase Size for Event Logs in Windows Can bog down your load time The Event Viewer in Windows is a centralized log service utilized by applications and operating system components to report events that have taken place, such as a failure to complete an action or to start a component or program. There are several sections in the Event Viewer, such asApplicationandSecurityunder Windows Logs andApplications and Services Logs....

October 13, 2011 · 5 min · 931 words · Ashley Hernandez DDS
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