PC Help Guide

Errors on your hard disk can be a major problems for any home or business PC user, it will slow down your computer and potentially expose your computer to internet threats. You should always check your hard disk’s for errors and remove them immediatelly.

To check you hard disk for errors do this;

• Open computer from your start menu
• On the drive you want to scan right click
• Select properties
• Select the tools tab
• Click the check now button
• Run the scan

It will now most likely show some errors within your hard disk. This best method to fix these errors is to run our registry repair software, this will seek out the errors and repair them instantly.

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Are you using the new Windows Mail on Vista and are receiving error codes? We have just added a big list of Windows Mail error codes and the description of them.

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You may have heard of drivers, or just not really cared about them until the day you try to use a peripheral on your computer and you realize you don’t have the correct driver to run it. For those of you who don’t know exactly what a driver is then here is an explanation;

‘A device driver, or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a computer hardware device.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is connected. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device.

Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface’

Here are a list of typical peripherals that you may need drivers for;

• Printers
• Video adapters
• Network cards
• Sound cards
• Digital cameras
• Plus more..

With so many peripherals requiring drivers you will get to the stage where you have something that does not have the driver (or you just lost that small cd) which mean you cannot you that peripheral.

So how do you find the correct driver for your peripheral? Simply click this link and you can access a program that has virtually every driver known. From this program you will never need to search for hours on the web trying to find the correct driver (and then it probably won’t be the driver, just malware!), all the drivers will be located in one easy and accessible place.

Thousand of people in the last few months have been accessing this service and we have received so much positive response back from them, and many thank you’s.

So if you need a driver but cannot find it, simply click the link below to get started;

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Do you currently run Windows XP but you want to upgrade to Vista but do not know if your computer can handle it? You need to use the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor tool from microsoft.

The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor will help you to determine if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista. You can also use the Upgrade Advisor to determine if your Windows Vista-based PC is ready for an upgrade to a more powerful edition of Windows Vista.

This small software tool will scan your computer and create an easy-to-understand report of all known system and device compatibility issues, and recommend ways to resolve them. The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can also help you choose the edition of Windows Vista that best fits the way you want to use your computer.

Click here to download the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

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Intel on Monday introduced 16 microprocessors that are expected to deliver significantly more horsepower to businesses that need an across-the-board performance boost for servers and to consumers who play PC games or enjoy editing and playing video.

The desktop and server processors are the first built with Intel’s 45-nanometer manufacturing process, which delivers twice the transistor density of previous chips built on the company’s 65-nm process. The higher density translates into 820 million transistors for Intel quad-core processors.

In addition to the new quad-core chip, Intel is also expected to announce the “Wolfdale” dual-core Xeon 5200 series, which offers higher clock speeds on half as many instruction threads for customers who need maximum thread performance within the same thermals as the quad core chips deliver.

The breakthroughs pave the way for Intel to design suitable products that are 25 percent smaller than previous models, as well as the essential ability to pursue new ultra mobile and consumer electronics “system on chip” opportunities in 2008.

The 12 new quad-core processors boast clock speeds ranging from 2GHz up to 3.20GHz, with front side bus speeds of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 12MB. The three new dual-core chips feature clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz, a front side bus speed of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 6MB. The 45nm Hi-k Intel Xeon processors are compatible with server platforms using the Intel 5000 chipset family.

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As part of its three-pronged quest for worldwide Internet domination—via MSN, Live Search, and Windows Live—Microsoft has unleashed a bundled download of its installed desktop Live software: Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, and OneCare Family Safety. Also included is a slightly redesigned version 8.5 of Messenger, which intimately ties in with the rest of the suite; for example, starting up when you run Mail.

In line with that strategy, this release brings enhancements to popular services such as Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger and Spaces, while introducing new services for sharing digital photos, planning and sharing events, publishing to the Web, and staying in touch with people, Hall said.

“This is the first release that really pays off on that. It pays off with a suite of Windows applications that not only work well with Windows Live but also work with many other popular online services,” he said. “You can have your AOL Mail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail—if you have POP access—all coming in to one client. We are also releasing support for 64-bit Windows this week.”

Not all the products that had been in beta are in full release, however, Hall said. Two services will remain in beta and will be released in final versions at a later date, he said. Those are Windows Live Skydrive, an online file-storage service, and Windows Live Calendar. “They’ll be ready when we feel like the quality and scale is there,” he said.

Microsoft will continue to release new Windows Live services in beta form over the next year as it does quarterly updates to its current round of services. The company will do another major release of services when a new wave is ready, Hall said.

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I have been asked recently about hard drive errors and the best way people can tell if they are getting one. I recommend that if you really believe you have a disk error that you take it to some IT support so they can diagnose it for you, or if you want to do a quick check at home you should use CHKDSK.

CHKDSK is a command in Windows that lets you check for errors on your hard drives, it will also repair errors. CHKDSK creates and displays a status report for a disk based on the file system, it also lists and corrects errors on the disk. Used without parameters, chkdsk displays the status of the disk in the current drive.

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From time to time you will need to remove (or uninstall) programs and software from your operating system. I was surprised when I found out how many people just delete the icon from their desktop and believe that has deleted the program, that just delete’s the shortcut to the program.

To delete the program you must fully uninstall the actual program totally from your PC, some people may have the need to do this to speed up their computer.

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