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My Computer Will Not Turn On!

“My Computer Will Not Turn On” is a very common complaint with computers. Sometimes your computer may have been acting up intermittently before it finally failed completely or it may have just happened out of the blue. Whatever the situation was, there are things you can do help prevent this from happening.

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How to Take Care of Laptop

How to Take Care of Laptop

Laptops vary in shapes and size, even color and should never be dropped. We share our lives with them and would be devastated if we ever lost it. As with anything, they should be kept clean and cool, and well-fed, so to speak. Another aspect of Laptop is that it has joints that need to be exercised. And when your day with laptop is over, you should put it in a soft and safe place so that it will still be there the next day.

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New Year – Same Computer Problems?

The Story For those of us who were already using computers when the internet was taking off around 1995, that was only sixteen years ago. For those of us with teenagers, you probably know what a critical age sixteen is for a teen. Whats funny is that your teen has probably learned  more about computers [...]

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Computer Preventive Maintenance: Ignorance vs Neglect (Part 3 of 3)

More on Logs and Other Things (Cont from Part 2) Other logs you should be monitoring are your security software logs such as for your Antivirus or Firewall programs. But aside from threats to your software, I want to recommend another program that can monitor the health of your Hard Drive where all your data [...]

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Computer Preventive Maintenance: Ignorance vs Neglect (Part 2 of 3)

Two Main Causes of Computer Malfunctions (Cont from Part 1) If you read Part 1 of this article, you can see, I pretty much pointed out the 2 main causes of most computers malfunctions, “ignorance” and “neglect”. To make matters even worse, our weakened economy is exploiting these problems by making people run their computers [...]

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Computer Preventive Maintenance: Ignorance vs Neglect (Part 1 of 3)

Computer Preventive Maintenance: Ignorance vs Neglect (Part 1 of 3)

The weak economy is sure having an effect on the computer repair industry, but not the way you might think. People are relying on their computers more than ever before for entertainment, to find jobs, and to hunt for good deals. But as much as they depend on them, they tend not to put much [...]

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Are You Slowly Killing Your Laptop? Read This Before You Do!

I got such a response from the article about the Dirty Dell Computer that I had to add one more thing about the heat issue. My last article had to do with “neglect”, but now I have to be blunt and tell you about another heat issue that has to do with “ignorance”. If this [...]

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Do You Clean Your Computer? Check Out This Dirty Dell Computer!

The 2 biggest killers of computers are Power Problems and Heat. All I’ll say about avoiding power problems in this article is to get an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). You can think of a UPS as a big surge suppressor with a battery that makes it own power. It only needs to be plugged-in to [...]

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