Free DIY Computer Repair Five Part E-Course

Greetings, So You Want To Fix Your Computer...

I have written a FREE Five Part E-Course on keeping your computer healthy, subjects from 'Why my hard drive shows 10 Gig of space when it really is a 300 Gig drive' to 'Why doesn't my computer BIOS retain the settings?'

Well I think you have came to the right place. Here are some questions I have had asked of me through my support page:

1) Intermittent wireless connections with wireless router.

You are getting a weak signal to and from the router, you need to move the router to a new location with less obstacles or add a signal booster to the router, more information on setting up routers here.

2) i just want to make bootable windows XP usb device.

To make a bootable usb device is not complicated but you need a special program to write the boot sector to the usb device, you can find the instructions here.

3) My wife's computer takes at least 20 mins to shut down. it stop's on windows is shutting down.

To get your computer back to the original shut down time you need to clean out the extraneous programs that are running in the background, the instructions for doing this is located here.

4) I've been using McAfee "Total Protection" for a while, but it seems to slow down my computer. I just
installed it on a 2nd newer computer and am having the same problem. So now I'm looking for a solution's) or some other programs besides McAfee or Norton.

I have found that the 'Do it all' or 'Jack of All, but Master of None' anti-virus, anti-trojan, anti-spyware, and firewall programs add so much overhead to your computer operating in the back ground that they eat up valuable memory and CPU time, the easy way out is to remove them and install individual programs that use up a fraction of the memory and CPU time even though they are running all the time you can find more information on the 'how to' here.

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