Most of us have had the experience of dropping our computer off at a repair shop for days on end, or sitting on hold with tech support. It’s not a fun process, either way we feel helpless and at the mercy of the technician. For some computer issues there’s a straight forward answer. For example [...]

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Registry cleaning software is easy to download from the Internet, and can help to optimise the overall performance of your computer, by keeping your registry organised and up to date. The registry is the section of your operating system in which key information about all the software and system settings are stored, and having [...]

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Error messages are triggered by your operating system, to alert you to specific faults that have occurred in either hardware or software installations. There are a number of error codes for Microsoft systems, and it is easy to find out more about them on the Internet, either through visiting the Microsoft online help pages, or [...]

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Microsoft Operating systems utilise a number of executable (exe) files that can run basic routines and applications without the need for user interaction, and these perform a variety of important tasks including running the processes needed for initialising and maintaining stable Internet access.
However although these types of files are necessary, the fact that they can [...]

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This is another post from our series of posts helping you understand various computer file extensions and their applications.
It is important to understand what file extensions are and how they work as they can tell you what type of format the files on your computer saved are in, and what they are used for. File [...]

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Whilst your system is on, there are many things running in the background. This can include things which are in your Task Bar located on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, such as AntiVirus Protection. There are, however, other things running on your system, which you are probably not aware of.
To get a [...]

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This is another post from our series of posts helping you understand various computer file extensions and their applications.
For the newbies - ‘Computer file extensions’ is the term used for the suffix that appears at the end of file names and these are used to identify both what format the file has been saved as, [...]

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