Operating Systems
How to Uninstall McAfee or Norton antivirus and security Products
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how to uninstall McAfee or Norton antivirus and security products. Maybe its because trial versions of these products were preinstalled when the customer purchased the computer, or maybe you want to uninstall McAfee and install another antivirus software product. Some computer users try to install an antivirus product and they are told to uninstall McAfee before they can proceed even though it appears McAfee is not running on the system. Follow the instructions below to safely remove McAfee security products including their antivirus and firewall from your computer. Removal through the Add/Remove Programs Control...
Read MoreRETRIEVING YOUR SERIAL AND MODEL NUMBER/NAME
If you are a computer tech then this will me awesome for you, as getting the model and serial number can be the most tedious part of the job; whatever the reason you lost your serial number like laptop stickers rubbed off very quickly and manufacturer’s website has not been helpful then the commands am giving you are the best because within a few seconds you will know your serial and model number again. Desktops and Laptops comes with a serial number (or service tag) and a model name. If you ever loose this information, then you can use MS DOS commands to retrieve the information To retrieve serial number of the computer run the following command wmic bios get...
Read More23 suggestions to improve your Windows XP performance
Since defragging the disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all; most of them will cost you nothing. 1.) To decrease a system’s boot time and increase system performance uses the money you save by not buying defragmentation software — the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine — and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer. 2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically...
Read MoreTEN REASONS WHY YOUR PCs CRASH a MUST KNOW
Who has seen a pop up like the one below; Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.” You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1 Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique...
Read MoreWindows XP Shut Down and Automatic Reboot/Restarts Problems
This topic was prompted by a problem that one of our clients was facing. He ran into a problem trying to get his computer to shut down: He was running Windows XP Professional and it absolutely refused to shut down. Every time he tried to shut down it could go through the motions, but when it got to the point to turn off the machine, the BIOS screen could come up and the machine reboots. Annoying; well let’s look at the causes before we tell you what worked for our Client. There are three basic sources of automatic reboot problems: · Recovery settings · Software incompatibilities, including driver issues · BIOS problems Recovery Settings One of the things that is...
Read MoreAdvanced troubleshooting for “Stop 0x0000007B” errors in Windows XP
This step-by-step article describes how to troubleshoot “Stop 0x0000007B” error… This step-by-step article describes how to troubleshoot “Stop 0x0000007B” error messages in Windows XP. This article describes issues that can cause this Stop error including boot sector viruses and device driver issues or hardware issues. If you cannot resolve the problem after you review these issues, use the general troubleshooting steps that appear at the end of the article. This article is intended for advanced computer users. If you are not comfortable with advanced troubleshooting, you might want to ask someone for help or contact support. When you start...
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