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Email Upgrade System Requirements
Migrating to online email services only requires that your computer can load the webpages quickly.computer hub image by Albo from Fotolia.comTo upgrade your email, you will need to have several general system requirements, so that the upgrade can be successful. If you are using a...
How to Find Your Gateway Address for Internet
Your Default Gateway address is the address of your router. It is how the router is identified when routing IP packets sent to and from your computer. When you connect to a web page, you are sending a request through IP packets for access to the information on the site. The site receives these packe
How to Wipe My Hard Drive Clean & Start Fresh for Free
There are a number of advantages to wiping a hard drive completely clean. One of the top perks is that you get to start fresh. This is important, because many people overload their computers with so much data that the computer runs like a snail. Wiping the hard drive means that you will not have wor
How to Burn Music From a Media Library to an Audio CD
Windows Media Player, or WMP, is a media library application and digital media player that was developed by Microsoft. This program is used for listening to music and watching videos, but it can also burn audio CDs. You don't have to be chained to your computer to listen to your favorite music. You
PC Games Keeps Your Brain Young!
Computer games have been around for centuries and are among most system-intensive applications available on the market today. PC gaming industry is now at its peak these days as people are always finding for ways ...
Laptop Repair: Common Hardware Problems
Laptops are much more fragile than their sturdier counterparts, the desktops, and because of this, they can be expensive to maintain. Battery life is also much less. Replacement parts may be difficult to source in ...
How to Update UTorrent for Mac
The uTorrent ("micro-torrent") application is a BitTorrent client with a very small memory footprint. It can run in the background without using a significant slice of your computer's resources. BitTorrent clients allow you to download large files in many small pieces from different sources simultan
How to Erase a Hidden Hard Drive Partition
Most companies reserve an area on the primary hard drive to store a recovery utility program and/or diagnostic tools. This reserved area is in the form of a hidden partition. When looking at a hard drive by normal means, the user may not see this hidden partition. In some cases, a drive letter is no
How to Change the Jumpers on a Maxtor IDE Hard Drive
Hard drives have jumper pins on the back of the device that designate if it is a master or slave. A master hard drive is the main storage device in the machine and it has control over the slave drive. When you install a new hard drive or you build a new machine, the jumper pins in the back of your
How to Fix Path Errors
The innards of a computer are a very complex place. There is castle upon castle of information that would take you years to decipher. The operating system is a thick web of commands and orders that create a delicate atmosphere. The operating system keeps your library of files, photos, videos and doc
How to Configure a PC to Run Faster
There are a number of reasons a PC will run slower than it should, based on its specifications, but it's not always necessary to upgrade your hardware to get better performance. Some of the things that hinder how fast a PC will run are startup programs, cluttered disk space, a fragmented hard drive
How to Identify All the Potential Security Threats on a Home Personal Computer
Protecting your computer from the many threats poised by unwanted hackers and identity thieves can be daunting. Spyware, Trojans and viruses are some of the threats computer users face. Most, if not all computer threats, come under the umbrella name of malware. Luckily, malware can and should be eli
Everything About Optical Drives
Optical drives or optical disk drives are assigned to do retrieval and data storage in optical disks like CD and DVD.
How to Make a Screenshot of a Screen Saver
Taking a "screenshot" of your computer display is a simple task, but taking one of your screen saver is a little more difficult. Pressing the print screen button will automatically end the screen saver. Luckily, there are solutions for both Windows and Macintosh computers which allows an image of th
Buying an SFP Module? Here’s What to Look for
As each year passes by, newer and newer devices seem to surface on the market with fresh new designs and features to assist people in better configuring their computer servers to help meet their business ...
How to Set Two Images on My Desktop
Windows allows you to use any digital picture you want as a desktop background. However, it only displays one at a time. If you have two images that you want to display, you can make a slide show and Windows switches between them. You can get them both to show at the same time, however, with a littl
How to Set Up a Dell 720 Inkjet Printer
Windows will set up most printers, but sometimes your printer cannot be automatically set up because Windows cannot find the driver on your computer or on the Internet. You can ensure that your Dell 720 Inkjet printer works on your computer by manually downloading and installing the printer drivers
How to Build a Liquid Cooled PC
Liquid conducts heat better than air and a cool processor is a happy processor. Your computer generates a lot of heat and most of it comes from the central processing unit (CPU) and the graphical processing unit (GPU) if you have a graphics card. Keeping these components cool can add years onto the
How to Troubleshoot Kerberos Issues
Kerberos is a programming protocol used to authenticate log-ins. When you log in to a website or database, programmers can use Kerberos as part of the security measures for entering that site. The goal is to keep your log-in information safe. However, nothing functions correctly all the time, and so
How to Disable and Change the Local User Password
An important security feature of most operating systems, including all versions of Microsoft Windows, is the ability to prevent unwanted access to a PC by disabling user accounts and resetting passwords. While you cannot disable the first administrative account Windows creates during setup (usually