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Home » Archives for June 2009
1:34 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
If your computer is running slow, the cause can be one or more of the following: Virus/Spyware/Malware infection Your applications needs have outpaced the amount of memory you have available. Your hard drive is too full.Part 2, will focus on not having enough memory.In general, more memory is better. Here are some general guidelines for the minimum amount of memory you need.For a Windows system (before Vista), anything less than 750MB of memory will make your computer sluggish.For Vista systems, consider at least 2GB of memory.For Mac OS X, consider at lease 2GB of memory. If you are going to use Photoshop or other memory intensive applications, double the amount of memory to 4gb. Also,...
11:02 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
If your computer is running slow, the cause can be one or more of the following:Virus/Spyware/Malware infectionYour applications needs have outpaced the amount of memory you have available.Your hard drive is too full.Your hard drive contains both the operating system (Windows, MAC OS X, etc.), your applications (Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) and your user data (iTunes library, photos, documents, address book, etc.).The operating system and applications running on your computer require a scratch pad in order to function efficiently. That means at least 15% of the total capacity of your hard drive must be free to act as a scratch pad. In other words, your hard drive is totally full...
8:05 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
I am asked all the time how to protect children from accessing or seeing stuff their parents would find objectionable.Deny access to your wireless network for your children. Make your child's access the Internet under your supervision. It is pretty easy to add a WPA or WEP key to your wireless network that a computer must have entered in order to access the Internet. Your wireless network should be WPA or WEP key enabled to protect your network anyway.Add parental control software that attempts to prevent access to undesirable features of the Internet. Software such as Net Nanny (www.netnanny) or SafeEyes (www.internetsafety.com) can be installed. Software as provided by High Speed Internet...
10:23 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
My last three homes did not get a cell signal unlessI was on the top floor, went outside or walked up the driveway. So much for the convenience of a cell phone!T-Mobile has a solution that works for T-Mobile subscribers. If you get new cell phones from T-Mobile that are Wi Fi capable, have a home wireless network, and sign up for the plan, your cell phone will be able to send and receive calls using your wireless network.Here are some of the advantages:Since you are not using T-Mobile's cellular network, these call are not charged against your cell phone plans minutes.No noticeable degradation quality of service.Cell phone works where ever your wireless internet network connection works.Easy...
10:43 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
In this economy, who can afford to spend more money than they have to on a new computer?Here is a list of things to consider when evaluating a deal:Does the computer come with CD's that let you re-load the operating system and hardware drivers? In an attempt to penny pinch, many computers take up space on your hard drive with a recovery partition to restore your computer to its factory settings. If your hard drive crashes, all your software you would use to restore your computer with a replacement hard drive is gone. You are faced with re-buying an operating system and any other application software that was bundled with your computer. You may not be able to find the correct drivers for your...
6:40 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Notice the term recovery. If you don't test your backup by trying to read it, the backup is useless. Did the backup succeed? Can I read the files from the backup? Are the files I need, part of the backup?Is the backup stored in a safe place? If your laptop is connected to the external hard drive you are using for your backup, do you think the thief that steals your laptop will take your external hard drive too?Are you sure that your emails, calendar, address book, tasks and notes from Outlook are backed up? Copying the outlook data file (*.pst), is not the way to go. You should export your files to a backup file using the built in Outlook export utility and make sure your backup procedure copies...
10:39 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
I have preferred anti-virus software I use, but whether you contract a computer virus comes down to these factors:Keep the virus definitions up to date. If definitions are not downloaded automatically, manually download them yourself once a week.Keep your subscription to virus definitions up to date. An expired subscription means that you are no longer protected from newly created and discovered viruses.Never update a subscription online. Buy a new copy of the software from the store. Something always seems to go wrong when updating your subscription via the Internet. If you need to re-load your anti-virus software, it is much easier from a CD than trying to download the software again. Also,...
9:58 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Do you want to help same energy? Here are some factors to consider before you turn off the switch:Printers need to remain on all the time. When the printer is not in use, the printer "exercises" the print heads so that the ink does not dry out clogging the print nozzles. It is next to impossible to clean out dried ink from the tiny print nozzles. A new print head always seems to cost the same as a new printer.Turn your computer off at night to safe energy? If your weekly virus scan or your daily windows update download is schduled for the time when your computer is turned off, do these scheduled events get run when you turn your computer back on? No! Make sure your virus scan and windows update...
