Connecting to another PC using Remote Desktop

{ Written by: admin on March 28th, 2008 }
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Many people use PCs at work and at home. If you’re one of these people, there might come a time when you need to access your home PC from work or vice-versa. Or if you’re a tech-savvy person who works in a small office with no dedicated IT support personnel, you might find yourself supporting […]

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Backing Up Your Files in Windows

{ Written by: admin on February 7th, 2008 }
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One of the things I would advise you to do on a regular basis is to back up your data files. You would appreciate the importance of backups once you find yourself a victim of a hard disk crash, or some other problem in which your PC fails to boot up. If you have a […]

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Defragmenting your Windows PC

{ Written by: admin on February 6th, 2008 }
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When you save a new file on your PC, it occupies space on your hard drive. When you make changes to the file, increasing file size in the process, it saves the old data back to the same space on the hard drive, and the additional data on another part of the drive. When you […]

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Capturing screenshots in Windows

{ Written by: admin on February 3rd, 2008 }
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When you encounter an error running an application, and you need to contact technical support, you’d be of more help if you know how to take a picture of your PC’s screen, giving technicians at the other end of the line a better idea of your problem and allowing them to troubleshoot it faster.
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Encrypting files and folders in Windows

{ Written by: admin on February 3rd, 2008 }
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If you are the type of computer user who is paranoid about security, and your PC is installed with Windows 2000 or higher, encrypting your files and/or folders is easy using Windows’ Encrypting File System (EFS) feature. However, EFS will only work on an uncompressed NTFS partition. If the partition is FAT-32, EFS will […]

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Installing XP on a Windows Vista PC

{ Written by: admin on February 2nd, 2008 }
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If you purchased a PC now, and you prefer Windows over Linux, the Mac, and other operating systems, it will surely come with Windows Vista. If you encounter problems running your favorite applications and peripherals due to incompatibility problems with Vista, you might find yourself wishing to uninstall Vista, and reinstalling XP in its place. […]

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Transferring files and settings from an old PC to a new PC

{ Written by: admin on January 29th, 2008 }
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If you just bought a new PC to replace your old one, you would normally want to copy your files from the old PC to the new one, unless you don’t have anything you consider important on the old PC. If you’ll be using Windows XP (and you should be, considering that all the pre-Windows […]

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Creating a system restore point in Windows XP

{ Written by: admin on January 26th, 2008 }
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Before installing another program, replacing a piece of hardware on your Windows PCs, or tweaking your registry, it is recommended that you always create a system restore point that you can use for restoring your system settings to its previous state, if something goes wrong with your installation of the new program or hardware, or […]

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