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A Scatter-Brained Hard Drive Will Slow Your Computer
If your computer is slow, it might not be malware. Hackers and cybercriminals are much more sophisticated these days. They want your machine to be running well. It helps to avoid detection and they want your computer to be efficient for their own purposes. For example, the hackers may want efficient computers to spew out [...]
Living Life to the Fullest
A few moments ago, I read a tweet by my friend Chris Brogan. It said simply: Know what kills you in life? Not living.. Holy wow… Chris is right. Sure you’ll continue to breathe if you don’t go out and embrace every moment of life. But is that really living? I don’t think it is, [...]
Keep Your Computer in Tip-Top Shape
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The folks at PC PitStop have been a tremendous help to our community during the time we’ve been doing live streaming. We contribute videos to their newsletters as often as possible, and they contribute to all of you via excellent and [...]
Are Registry Cleaners Safe to Use?
People ask me all of the time if registry cleaning software is safe to use, and which one I would recommend. The truth of the matter is – I don’t recommend using any of them! I did a video about this last year, with the help of some very knowledgeable people. As most of you [...]
How to Speed Up Your PC
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed PCPitstop is one of those resources you need, but don’t realize it until you need it! These guys have been around for nearly a decade now, and their reputation is rock-solid. They have a feature called “Ask an Expert” – and [...]
Tips for a Good PC Gaming Experience
Getting your computer ready for gaming can be complicated… at least, if you want a good gaming experience. Here are some excellent tips sent in by a community member. These are things you should definitely do before you install your next game. System Requirements and Hardware Always Read the minimal system requirements. If your computer [...]
Tips for Keeping your Computer Running Perfectly
Even though it has all been said many times and in many places, it will never be enough until every computer user knows exactly how to properly care for their computer… inside and out. One of my regular community members who goes by the handle of Night sent in the following list. These are ten [...]
Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Windows Vista Computer Running Smoothly
Are you using Vista on your computer? If so… have you had any issues with the performance, and how your computer actually runs? These tips were sent in by a community member by the name of Elis. When I used to be on Windows XP, I always had the problem of keeping my computer running [...]
How to Keep from Getting Bored if the Internet Goes Down
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed *GASP* What? The Internet could go down? What will we do? How will we survive? Unfortunately, it happens to all of us at some point. Here are some interesting ideas to keep yourself busy during the “Intarweb’s” downtimes. Clean out and [...]
Defrag Your Hard Drives with Diskeeper for Windows
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Protocol joined me to explain why he chooses to use Diskeeper instead of the built in Windows defragging tool. Diskeeper is an excellent tool. There is a 30-day free trial available for you to check it out. With Diskeeper, it’s faster, [...]
Chkdsk and Defrag
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – One of our community members recently attempted to run a defrag on his computer. During the defrag, he received a message that chkdsk wanted to run. He’s not so sure what this means, or if he should allow it. If your [...]
What is a Defrag?
http://live.pirillo.com/ – Everything you have on your computer more than likely sits on a hard drive – your operating system, music, pictures, programs, and everything else. When you put new data on your hard drive, the data isn’t generally optimized – the files are fragmented across the space of the hard drive. By defragging your [...]
