One item people underestimate when they buy a computer is mass storage capacity. A 500-gigabyte hard drive may seem like an ideal size a few years ago, but today,...
Reviewing events To discover what’s happening, or has happened in your computer, you can review the Windows Event Log. The Event Log, is a chronicle of the computer’s...
Great excitement surrounded the registry when it was introduced with Windows 95. People were thrilled because the registry offered a centralized location for internal settings and controls the...
The Windows Task Manager is a tool that shows you which programs, processes, and services are running on your computer. It also offers insight into how the PC...
Its real name is the System Configuration Utility. But most people know it by the program name, MSCONFIG. The utility is ideal for troubleshooting PC Boot issues and Windows...
The root of PC trouble is change. Microsoft recognized that change happens unexpectedly. So they included a tool to help unwind the clock. It’s called System Restore. The System...