Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on How to use Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (MBAM)
What is Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware? Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM) is an easy-to-use tool that scans for malicious software (malware) and removes it. It's widely recommended and used by PC security gurus around the ... Read more..Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Posted in Guides | 2 Comments »
This is a follow up to my first article on backing up data. It's a video demonstration of how Microsoft's Sync Toy can be used to back up files ... Read more..Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on How to Use Spybot S&D
What is Spybot Search and Destroy? Spybot is a simple anti-spyware tool that both scans for "potentially unwanted programs" (PUP's) and immunises against a range of potential threats. It's not necessarily ... Read more..Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on Make Backup Copies of Your Data
How valuable is your data to you? Family photos, emails and contacts, important documents and so on... Do you make backup copies of your data? Several of our customers have ... Read more..Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on How to Search for Files
Have you ever saved a file to your hard drive knowing that it's there somewhere, but you can't find it? This guide shows how you can track it down. Recently Used ... Read more..Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on How to use MSCONFIG
About MSCONFIG allows you to temporarily prevent programs from loading when Windows starts. It was designed as a simple troubleshooting tool, centralising options to enable or disable commands and programs that ... Read more..Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on Defragmenting Your Hard Drives
What is Fragmentation and why is it a problem? In a nutshell, fragmentation is when files on your hard drive are broken up into seperate parts and stored in different areas ... Read more..Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on Optimising Paging Files
What are paging files and scratch files? Basically paging files are reserved space on your hard drive, designed to be used like an extension to physical RAM. The physical RAM and ... Read more..Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on PC Performance Guide
One of the most common complaints we hear people make about their PC is poor performance. There are a few ways to make it run faster, which is what this ... Read more..Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Guides | Comments Off on Computer Security Guide
You're probably familiar with words like Adware, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Rootkits, Worms and so on... All forms of Malicious Software (malware). Each year they get more deceptive, harder to remove ... Read more..