How to tell if you have a virus
There are two simple ways to tell if your computer has a virus: if your PC is suddenly incredibly slow and there appears to be no explanation, then it’s probably a virus. The other way to tell if you have a virus is to resort to a good [...]

Keeping your operating system updated is vital to take advantage of the latest performance tweaks and bug fixes. This chapter is incredibly short because there’s not much to talk about when it comes to updating your PC. Simply click the following link: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and you’ll be able to quickly upgrade your operating system to the [...]

Limit startup processes
There are many applications that, once installed will launch automatically when you start up your computer. Whilst this is designed to be convenient by meaning you don’t have to manually open them, more often times than not you don’t need the application straight away and therefore it just becomes a burden on your [...]

There are several software products on the Internet that promise to speed up the performance of a PC. Some of these products are commercial software that comes at a price, others are free software packages. There are good free products out there but one must guard against those that install adware, spyware, and sometimes even [...]

Heat is one of many enemies of electronic devices like computers. It causes parts to wear out faster, and can cause devices to behave or operate erratically. In a computer, the most important item that needs to be kept cool is the CPU. A CPU that is overheating can cause blue screen errors, applications errors, [...]