Rather than trying to replace my hard drive — or buy a new computer, for that matter — I’ve come to love Seagate’s line of portable external hard drives.
All you need to do is plug the drive into one of your USB ports and you’re ready to go. The drive will show up on your [...]
Hard drives fill up fast these days. Digital photos, movies, mp3 audios and all the other fun downloads take up a lot of space.
The Practical Solutions
Obviously, the first thing you may want to consider to free up space on you computer is to delete files that you never use. If you don’t want [...]
When you want to share a document with others, who may all have different word processing programs that may not be compatible with your software, converting the document to Adobe’s PDF format is the way to go! PDF files can be universally read with Adobe’s free Adobe Acrobat Reader program that most people already [...]
Learn more...It’s a nightmare that happens to every home or small business computer user once in awhile. All of the sudden, email doesn’t work right. Maybe software programs such as Microsoft Word refuse to work. Sometimes your programs won’t even load. Or perhaps your Internet browser is all messed up. The [...]
Learn more...Is your computer making an awful, grinding noise because it’s so old? Or are you running around from computer to computer, using CDs or floppy disks to store and transfer data?
It’s time to upgrade your systems and maybe even install a small network. You can get $10 off of every $200 you spend [...]
It seems like it was just a couple years ago when getting a computer with an 80 gigabyte hard drive was a big deal. Nowadays, however, 80 gigs fills up really fast, especially with movies, mp3 audios, and graphic downloads.
My main computer was filling up at an alarming rate with software downloads, digital products [...]
Organizing your electronic files from the beginning can save a lot of time later. A lot of home computer users that I have worked with have a rough time finding templates, web pages, word processing documents or other materials on their computers. A simple thing to do is to use the “search” function [...]
Learn more...Do you ever have trouble finding a document or image that you stored on your computer a week, month or year or so ago?
If you’re using a Microsoft operating system (like Windows XP, Windows 2000, for instance), there’s an easy solution.
Look on the bottom left on your screen and your should see a [...]
Learn more...I’ve run my anti-virus program and my computer is still slow and doing weird stuff. What’s wrong?
Sometimes your programs won’t work right, weird pop-ups show up in the middle of a project, or your web pages redirect to porn or other types of sites. You run your anti-virus software and the program reports [...]
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