Commercial polishing compounds in liquid form can be used to polish off lightly scratched disks but do it only in the affected area to see if it works. Use alcohol to remove the glare caused by the cleaner before sticking it into the drive. If that still doesn’t work, the scratch is so deep that there is no turning back and you’d have to go to a friend’s house or buy another copy for your purposes. Good luck and remember, keep all important disks stored in a safe place where they would be easily accessible for future use. If you need drivers, you could search for the in the manufacturer’s site or in the many driver sites such as driversguide.com and others.

The advent of the Terabyte hard drive has many techies drooling about the endless possibilities in terms of the amount of data they can hold. Though still quite expensive, there are certain situations where such a huge drive would be advantageous such as with use in video and animation which tends to be quite hard drive space hungry. Bigger is better, right? Not always, for consider this, you may have a terabyte of data stored into a compact drive but what would happen to that very terabyte of information should your hard drive suddenly fail? Having several drives is still better due to the redundancy that exists, and is the reason why servers have several hard rives in a RAID configuration that has the ability to either have several hard drives having the same information, ready for hot swapping should the primary hard drive fail without much problems. (more…)

That would be a question that you yourself would have to address for determining the feasibility of such a task depends mainly on cost. Consider these points, if you are upgrading your computer because it has considerably slowed down, then a total retrofit or even replacement would be in order. This would be more akin to older machines that may have already been serving you for a good couple of years, besides, you may not be able to find any compatible hardware anymore due to the fast pace at which technology advances. (more…)

The Restore point option of Windows XP has the operating system taking a snapshot of your overall system (mostly the system areas on the hard drive along with documents), saving compressed information about the hard drive’s contents at regular intervals allowing almost instant file restoration should the computer experience a system crash. These restore points can be set manually on when it is to take snapshots of the system for backup or as experienced XP users know, every time you opt to upgrade a critical part of your operating system that may have bearing on the overall stability of your computer. (more…)

Here are a few tips to help speed up your computer and / or laptops’ boot up speed:

1. Run disk defragmenter.

It helps compress and organize all the files in your disk, eliminating empty spaces on the disk that delays the computer when it starts up. it’s a long wait, but the benefits are worth it in the end. Try defragging your disk when going on an errand or before going to bed so you don’t have to suffer the long wait too much.

2. Eliminate any useless startup programs.
Simple type ‘msconfig’ in your Run box in the Start Menu, and go to the Startup tab. There you’ll see which programs Windows loads during start up. Look at the Command column and look at the programs which you can do without at startup, and uncheck the appropriate Startup Item.

Errors have been detected by the motherboard’s diagnostics and may be preventing the system from running to protect itself from damage due to faulty components. Turn off the power so you can visually check the internal parts of the CPU to check for possible fans that may be failing, turn on the power momentarily then off again if you spot problems like the CPU fan fails to run smoothly. Open the casing and remove any dust bunnies that may be blocking the fans from working properly. excessive dust can also prevent them from functioning properly hindering their movement.
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世界のコンピュータの新しいざわめきは、新しいオペレーティング・システムのWindows Vistaだ。

この新しいオペレーティング・システムは、いくつかの新しい機能を持っている。 Vistaのコンピュータを機能するための最小の必要条件は、８００MHzと少なくともRAMの５１２MBが必要だ。
もしあなたがWindows Vistaの最高のパフォーマンスとグラフィック・デザインを利用したいのなら、利益を得る為にいくつかのチップが必要だ。 ハードウェアが必要条件、これが全てだと言った方がよいだろう。

• Windows Vistaを十分な状態で機能する為には、あなたのパソコンのCPUは３GHz程、RAMは2GB程必要だ。
• Vistaは全ての３２ビット版はRAMの4GB以上の物には耐えられず、一部の６４ビット版はRAMの128GBまで耐えられる。
• あなたのパソコンのハードドライブをディスク管理オプションを使い、最大限利用する必要がある。

ネットでVistaの能力を高めるもっと多くの方法を見ることが出来る。 Vistaの最大の可能性を利用出来るように、時々パソコンの微調整をすると良いだろう。 だが何が起こるか分からないので、あなたの全てのファイルをバックアップする事だ。

Down with the Windows XP slow boot? Feels like an eternity, eh?

According to the experts the best way to go about this is to find the source:

Legitimate programs usually put an icon in the SysTray, next to the clock on the Windows Taskbar. Right-clicking an icon will often let you tell the program not to load. However, Microsoft provides msconfig, a good utility for controlling how Windows starts up. To run it, click Start, select Run, type msconfig in the box and click OK. The Startup tab on the far right lists the programs being loaded, but it’s worth looking through the other tabs. Microsoft has a trouble-shooting guide to using it: search Google for Q310560.

More info here.

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Now this is one annoying problem you may encounter occasionally when you’re on your computer. Sometime its hard to detect where the problem is coming from because the computers sounds is controlled by one major hardware and a driver to be able to work on that hardware. Firstly, what you will need is a little amount of patience to keep your cool while trying to figure out this tiny bit of a problem.

Check for Power. Make sure your electric cord is connected properly to the socket.
Make sure your speakers are turned ON. Sheesh, right, do that!
Have a headphone in hand and plug it in the headphone jack, if there is sound, you can be pretty sure the problem is with your speakers.
Also, check the Volume Controls on your Windows. Make sure the Mute button is unchecked.

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What to do when your personal computer’s cursor grows big and grows small, some letters font appear and suddenly disappears on its own. Your graphics go crazy. Most of the time, when these strange things happen, the culprit is the graphics card driver. This is the program that allows the harwdware to work with the operating system. The first thing to do is make sure that the graphicsdriver is the reason behind this. You’ll need to install the Windows VGA driver. On the desktop, right click, click Properties, click Settings, click Advanced, click Adapter. Then select Change, the Update Wizard will open. Select Display a List, click on Show all Hardware. You’ll see Manufacturer’s, then select Standard display types and then install the VGA driver.