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10 symptoms of virus infected PC

Monday, October 13th, 2008

These are the 10 symptoms, showing that your PC might had been infected by a virus.

Good for those PC that run no antivirus software (Do you ever need one) in background.

  1. Your PC run slower than usual.
  2. Loading of programs slower than usual.
  3. Some of your files are missing.
  4. The size of some of program files are expanding.
  5. Crashes occur very often.
  6. Problem in saving and opening Word documents.
  7. Appearances of strange messages.
  8. Some of the devices suddenly fail to work.
  9. Other PCs on the network experience the same problem with your PC.
  10. Very frequent access to the hard drive, even when you are not running any program

If your PC ever experience any of these symptoms, perhaps you should start to diagnose your PC for virus.

Please note, however, that virus is not the only reason for these symptoms.

Sometimes, the time might had come for you to dump your PC for a new one.

Disable Error Reporting Notification in Windows XP

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

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When a severe error occurs in a program, Windows XP will usually halt the program, and then Windows XP ask whether you want to send the error messages to Microsoft. However, you can actually disable this annoying features.

To disable this feature:

  1. Bring up the System Properties dialog box. (In case you don’t know how to display the dialog box, please refer to How to display the System Properties dialog box)
  2. Click on Advance tab.
  3. Click on Error Reporting.
  4. Click on Disable error reporting.

2 Ways to Display the Windows System Properties Dialog Box

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

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There are multiple ways to display the Windows System Properties dialog box.

  1. Click on Start -> Right Click on My Computer -> Click Properties.
  2. On the keyboard, press and hold the Windows key (usually located besides the Alt key, which is usually located besides the long Space Bar key). Then, while holding the Windows key, press the Break key (or, the Pause key). Those keys usually located on the top right of the keyboard.

note: Some notebook may require you to press and hold the Fn key in order to access the Pause or Break key.

Portable defrag tool 2

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

In the previous article, I had shown you a portable defrag tool, called Defraggler. This article will show another portable defrag tool called JKDefrag.

JKDefrag a freeware by kessels, is a portable disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. It means that you can put it inside floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.

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Sending big files

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Ever wonder how to send big files to your friend?

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Don’t defrag flash drive

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Should you defrag your flash drive? The answer is no. This article will gives you two reason why you shouldn’t do so.

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Drag file to print

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

This is a quick way to print a file without opening it yourself. What you need is a shortcut to the printer icon on your desktop. In order to print a file, just drag the file to the printer icon, and get your print.

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Vostro 1400 Bios Update

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Dell had released the bios update for Vostro 1400 notebook: version A08.

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New Yahoo! Mail Addresses

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Yahoo! Mail is now offering new mail address:

@ymail and @rocketmail

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Portable Defrag Tool

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Do you ever need a portable file defragmentation tool? Now you can bring one in your thumb drive. It is called Defraggler.

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