Everyone who’s used a Mac has seen this spinning wait cursor in action. It means your Mac is slowing down and your CPU is struggling. Here’s how to fix it.
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We’ve all experienced it: endless buffering on the Web when streaming video. Here are some ways to alleviate that problem.
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The MEMORY_MANAGEMENT Blue Screen of Death error is usually exactly what it sounds like: bad RAM. Here are steps you can take.
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When transitioning from a Mac to a PC, it helps to be aware of how a PC’s desktop works.
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User Account Control in Windows Vista & 7 allows you to adjust security levels for each user, allowing or disallowing access to many Windows functions.
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Antialiasing, framerate, and other PC graphics settings are important to understand to get the most out of your PC gaming experience.
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Modern apps in Windows 8, also known as Metro apps, offer numerous advantages and disadvantages over their standard Desktop equivalents.
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Most new laptops have multitouch trackpads; you can control them with more than one finger, like a touchscreen. Here’s how to configure them in Windows 8.
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Your PC has a a limited amount of resources, and some apps can take more than their fair share. Find out about them here.
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There’s no need to choose between wired and wireless connections in your home or office. Why not have the best of both worlds?
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Roll back a Driver and Restore Driver Updates The best practice when it comes to computer hardware drivers is to always keep them up to date. Usually newer versions of drivers bring with them better compatibility, more stability and sometimes new features. Why wouldn’t you want to upgrade? Because some times after upgrading you might start seeing one of these: Well sometimes new drivers that are released (especially BETA versions of drivers) can actually cause problems including Blue Screens, crashes and hardware malfunction. If you have found yourself in the […]
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Coming up with a password that is secure these days is not easy. Quite often you need to have both uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Not to mention that for best security you should have different passwords for every different account you have online. Creating these passwords can take some time. This is why in today’s video we though we would show you the easy way how to create passwords using our free Password Generator.
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Another new feature of Windows 8.1 is the ability to resize live tiles on the Windows 8 Start Screen.
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Scheduling maintenance allows you to perform processor-intensive tasks, such as checking your disk for errors, during a time where your PC isn’t in use.
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Find out if your Password is Secure enough: These days you have passwords to protect almost every website you visit online. Whether it be for banks, accessing your email or even to leave a comment on an article, you need a password. Passwords are also becoming easier and easier to break. Advanced hackers use some sophisticated (and some not very sophisticated) algorithms to try and randomly guess your password. If you are using easily accessible information such as your birth date or first and last name as your password the […]