In this article, I have tried to summarise the tips and help for wireless network setup trobleshootings. This is by no means the complete list because the certain wireless adapters and routers sometimes require specialist approach. A lot also depends on the wireless network configuration, operation system settings, hardware and many other little bits and [...]
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Imagine that you have a situation: you’ve been installing and uninstalling some programs for a week or so, was switching your computer on and off, doing some other stuff but then you need to read a DVD and the computer does not recognise it. And I mean not just doesn’t recognise a DVD disk but [...]
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Antivirus, antispyware and firewall software are essential for the modern computers connected to the Internet. Despite the fact that it has been said many times, I’d like to reiterate that every computers should have some sort of protection against viruses and spyware because presence of these nasty things on the computer leads to the personal [...]
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I have recently been persuaded that the firewall that comes with Windows Vista is not a big improvement from Windows XP built-in firewall. It can easily let in viruses, spyware, malware and other unwanted and dangerous executable programs too. Don’t get me wrong - it does protect against some stuff, it also restricts the permissions [...]
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It would eventually happen to anyone who works with the computer - a message that reads like “there’s not enough space on your disk, please delete all unnecessary files” appears out of nowhere. And that is when you’ve thought there’s enough space there to put much more data than you would ever need.
So what would [...]
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