We all have our brush with stubborn Windows Installer pop ups. And we’ve felt every imaginable shades of annoyance toward this. What’s most annoying is the phrase that says “Preparing to install” without saying or showing you anything else. If that doesn’t get at you, wasted time probably will. What is Windows Installer Windows installer [...]
The day you installed Vista into your PC, you heaved a sigh of relief. Slow days are over, you thought. Called Microsoft’s next generation operating system, Vista has earned a name for ease of use and performance, far more and above Windows XP. For good reasons: Vista capitalizes on these features: It can spy hardware [...]
Your lap top is no different from the average PC. So the reasons why it freezes now and then must surely be no different from the PC’s. But before you start trouble-shooting, you need to answer these questions: (In truth, these are trouble-shooting questions.) 1. When did you last clean your laptop’s Registry? You know [...]
Freezing and turning off of laptops don’t happen to old models only. Even relatively newer ones may shut off if something’s amiss. You can think of the usual suspects, and your hunch may just be correct. First, let’s clear up some terms here. A computer or lap top shut down is called system freeze. And [...]
Your mouse hasn’t seen a cat, all right. It’s just that its cursor freezes where it points. And you yank your mouse back and forth to see if it’s still alive and breathing, but it doesn’t respond. It’s not dead, OK– it just freezes over. But don’t jump to conclusions yet: you have to make [...]
You’ve had computers that shut down and freeze all of a sudden. And then you’ve had all sorts of virus infection. You’re well on your way to finishing work and your deadline is barely an hour ahead. Now it’s no ordinary beep like a stopwatch beep—it’s almost like a grate. So, how do you explain [...]
Looking at a frozen computer makes you feel like looking at a corpse. If it happens all too frequently, you’d either flare up or grow cold yourself. And this is no exaggeration. From the outside computer freeze may just be one of those ordinary PC quirks we experience everyday. But if it gets in the [...]
Browsing is never easy when your computer lags. If you’re looking to beat a deadline in minutes, you’re dead. You stare at your screen for minutes while time ticks away on your watch. It’s that feeling that gets to you. The reasons for a computer lag are as many as its parts, but the most [...]
It’s next to getting embarrassed in public when your own computer locks you out. Well, it happens to the best of us. We’ve thought of many reasons why it does, and figured out different ways of solving it. But first things first: It’s called a lock up. What is a computer lock-Up Obviously a lock [...]
When your computer shuts down, there’s close to a dozen reasons why. And each reason stems from a whole lot of PC issues, so if you want to take the first line of defense, better get down to the bottom by asking yourself: What kind of shut down is going on? Common causes of computer [...]