DTI Data Recovery have made a useful piece of software for investigating hard drive errors. Sometimes when diagnosing your PC for performance issues, there is only so much you can do with tweaks. If the problem is physical.. then you need to get physical and fix it directly. If a hard drive(s) is faulty, then you will definitely have performance issues. Windows Surface Scanner steps in here to help zero in on those bad sectors and...

In fighting viruses, malware, trojans and spyware, it’s important to know your enemy. A rookit is your biggest enemy and the hardest to fight. Understanding rootkits are your only hope of ridding your machine of them. They can do an enormous amount of damage. I was about to write a long explanation on this and then I found this great explanation over on Online-Tech-Tips. The term rootkit or root kit originally referred to a...

Some people don’t realize that when they get their brand new, super fast up to date laptop from the shop, that it is restricted to balanced battery performance. All it takes is a couple of clicks and you re-gain the full potential of the laptop. Its worth noting that this uses more battery power. So, you could use it selectively, when you know you may be away from a power source for a while. There are usually three default power...

I decided to do two Support Sunday slots today. I stumbled across this simple and free piece of software for XP machines. OK, so it wont actually repair a smashed screen that you took your technophobic rage out on. However, it does help to fix those little annoyances in XP, but without having to google every step and manually change them. As the screenshot shows, its a simple click and click. Its provided by a company called Leelu...

OK, to kick off our new slot called Support Sunday, that will feature an IT support article every Sunday, so that you don’t have to call the IT guy again, we are looking at Licence Crawler. Licence Crawler So you backed up everything on to an external drive or CD’s DVD’s and have your re-installation disks all ready. For the last before you re-format, you reboot, pop in your operating system disc and go for it. It...