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From the monthly archives:
Defragging is like putting air in your tires. It’s something you need to do every once in a while, but it’s awfully tedious. Windows comes with a defragging tool, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t better ones out there. Certainly, there are great commercial-grade defrag utilities, but we like free. Auslogics Disk Defrag is a [...]
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SyncToy is a free folder syncronization utility that allows you to effortlessly keep all of your data up to date with a single push of the button. In the day of thumbdrives, external hard drives and other portable devices, this type of software should be built into any Operating System. At least Microsoft is offering [...]
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Your router has a firmware chip on it similar to your computer’s BIOS. It is called firmware because it is a combination of software and hardware and can be updated regularly to improve functionality or fix problens with security or other issues. It is very important to make sure you keep up to date with [...]
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Everyone knows how important it is to backup their data. Whether it’s photos, movies, Emails or documents our data is important to us. Keeping that data safe is not always an easy thing to do. It’s easy to forget about backing up, or even worse, backing up to a single location and losing that backup [...]
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Our amazing computer tip today deals with the ultimate Doh! moment we’ve all had at some point in our computing lives. Scenario: You just remove have your recovery disk or your Windows install disk from the CD drive and look up at your new, shiny installation of Windows and realize you forgot to save you [...]
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Today we reach deep down into the moist, juicy bag of computer tips and pull out a tip we didn’t even know was there. We had forgotten all about our furry little friend the System Restore Point. He was introduced several years ago in Windows ME, but it is probably one of the best–and most [...]
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Any frequent Windows user has encountered the big bad BSOD, short for the Blue Screen of Death. This common error will make its presence known whenever the system senses that an application, piece of hardware or device driver is experiencing issues behind the scenes. What makes this particular issue so tricky is that it can [...]
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