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By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in Speedy Computer | 0 comments

Does it ever occur to you that you were cramming for some paper works and your computer won’t cooperate? Are you tired of how slow your computer gets? You can fix this problem and speed up your computer by just some simple computer maintenance activities. First, you would need to uninstall your unused programs in the system. If you have not been using a certain program for a long time you may want to uninstall it. You can do it through the Add or Remove Programs utility in the Windows operating system. Or you can also use a third-party program uninstaller to be certain of the complete removal of the program. Secondly, you can disable startup programs that are not that important. Often, when you download or install programs on the computer, they add services that load to the system startup. These are not usually required yet they run in the background system. They end up consuming your system resources for no cause. This is the reason why you would need to disable these startup programs. This can de done with the aid of Windows System Configuration Utility (msconfig) or any third-party registry cleaner tools and program uninstaller tools which has startup programs manager that would make it easy to run startup programs. Thirdly, you would need to clean your registry. If there is large information in the registry, it can cause to slow down the computer and result to many computer errors. Building up of a large number of outdated, unwanted, and incorrect information can result to bloat up the registry. You must frequently scan and clean the unwanted information from the registry in order to prevent these registry problems. With the aid of a reliable registry cleaner tool, these cleaning can be done with this ease. Fourthly, you need to clean the hard disk. Disk Cleanup tool can be found in Windows XP and Windows Vista computers. You can clean up the hard disk with the help of this tool. You can also get rid of temporary Internet files, compress old system files, delete old system restore points and clean up unwanted program setup files. Fifthly, you can Defrag the hard disk. Disk Defragmenter tool are contained...

By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in spyware | 0 comments

When you browse the internet, spyware programs lurk and you never know when they will invade your system. They will usually silently creep into your system and without you knowing it, they have started to wreak havoc, destroying some applications and intruding into your privacy. They will also bombard you with unwanted pop-ups or redirect you to websites that you don’t want to go to. Worst, spyware may even steal your personal identity and use it maliciously. Computer experts disclose that 90% of computers are infected by spyware programs with the users not knowing that their computers are infected. This happens because one needs a separate uitlity to be able to detect spyware infections. Spyware are hardly detected by anti-virus programs. Here are some of the things that will tell you that your computer has spyware: You see frequent pop-up windows containing advertisements whether you’re online or working offline; Your computer slows down; the performance has been dramatically reduced; Frequent website redirects especially to websites that are considered as affiliates or with marketing content; Frequent unauthorized changes in your home page and searches; Unauthorized and unwanted toolbars like Mirar toolbar that are added to your browser. Don’t fret. You can do something about these spyware and prevent them from attacking your computer. Here are useful tips to prevent and delete spyware from your computer: You need a reliable anti-spyware program that will be able to scan your computer and detect and remove the spyware from your computer. There are many programs to choose from when your browse the internet. It is essential that you choose a reliable program. As much as possible avoid the freeware anti-spyware as they have limited capabilities and some are even used as a disguise by spyware. The moment you download these spyware in disguise, they will bring more harm than good. After you have downloaded the anti-spyware software, you need to run a full system scan of your computer to detect spyware that may have entered your system already. Once detected, these spyware will be removed from your system. For maintenance and prevention, you need to enable the real time protection and run a full system scan from time to time. For more effective...

By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in Registry | 0 comments

Computer crashes and Windows errors are the worst things that could happen to your computer. It is an unpleasant experience and not to mention costly and inconvenient. Computer technicians do not come cheap as well as computer parts. The good news is that such computer problems can be avoided with proper maintenance and prevention. You could be spared the loss of important files and cash by cleaning your operating system’s registry, where around 80% of computer problems start from. Computer registries cause problems when they overflow with unwanted data and information fed to it by the Internet. Users should therefore exercise utmost responsibility in their Internet surfing activities. The frequent installation and un-installation of applications, utilities, programs, and games can slow down your system. For every program or application you install, data is entered to your registry. They continue to accumulate as you keep on installing more programs. Your registry is bound to crash if you keep this up and do not remove unnecessary data as you go. It is also not advisable to remove programs without following the appropriate steps. If you try to remove programs incorrectly, there is a tendency to leave several “orphan registry keys, which also add to the size of information your registry is already carrying. Bulky programs such as Norton products come with hundreds of registry entries that using the correct removal tools would not suffice. Furthermore, when you remove entries from the registry, place holders or empty registry keys usually remain, not much help to reducing your registry size. Malicious spyware and viruses are also capable of inputting fallacious entries to your windows registry. They could even alter existing entries that cause errors in your system. Your PC system works by loading the registry into the hard disk. Each time you shut down, changes made to the registry are entered in the registry files in the physical memory. So when your system crashes, the registry files cannot be updated with the new data. This results in abrupt shutdowns and system crashes. Your registry also sustains damage. What to Do To make sure that your registry is clean and get peace of mind, take the following simple but often taken for granted steps....

By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in Registry | 0 comments

The Windows registry of any Windows Vista Computer is a directory containing all the options and settings set up on that particular PC. This registry is a hierarchial-based directory of thousands of keys grouped into sections known as hives. These hives are the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU), HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM), HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_USERS (HKU), HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM), and the HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (HKCC). The first two hives the HKLM and HKU contain the true root entries or keys. The HKLM key contains all of the information that has something to do with the hard ware and the soft ware currently installed in your computer, while the information on user accounts implemented on your computer is saved in the HKU key. The HKCR hive contains information that concerns filetypes, extensions, URL protocol prefixes, and registered classes. All the data in the HKCR key is taken from these 2 keys”HKLMSOFTWAREClasses and HKCUSOFTWAREClasses. If both keys contain duplicate information, it is there in the HKCR. But if there are conflicting data in the two keys, then only the data in the HKCUSOFTWAREClasses is shown in the HKCR. The HKCU hive contains settings and user-based system information configured for the user who is currently logged on. Details like desktop settings, environment variables, available printers, folders and Control Panel configurations for the user currently logged on is shown in this hive. In reality however, there are no real information stored in the HKCU hive. Rather, it serves as a subkey to the HKU hive, which contains the actual information pertaining to that user. The HKCC hive consists of hardware configuration settings for the current user. Said key also lacks any exclusive data. No actual data stored in the HKCC hive; it serves as a subkey to the HKLM hive that contains the actual data. In addition, the information on this hive is not saved on disk; the information is being regenerated on boot time. In summary, the HKCR, HKLM, and HKCC hives are contain information which is more relevant for the user who is currently logged-on to the computer. The registry is continuously updated as additional keys are being entered by the system. Some of these keys are required by your PC; there are others which contain unnecessary...

By admin on Oct 2, 2009 in Common Errors | 0 comments

Microsoft Directx handles tasks like game programming, videos and other multimedia related forms. In short description, it is a collection of application programming interfaces which is also known as APIs. It is also considered as an expansion of the Windows Operating system that’s comprised of runtime module for users and d=for developers is a suite of programming tools. All who owns a computer needs directx because any program will not run without it. Applications, especially modern ones like multimedia and games always used it to get the most benefit out of the hardware. You should be able to know your computer’s version of directx and you must always get the latest version when one is available because there are programs that you might use and needs the latest version of directx. It happens more often that if you have an old version of it, there are errors that will appear in your computer like not being able to get the file d3d8.dll, ddraw.dll or d3d9.dll, won’t initialize dinput9.dll or a fatal exception error in dplayx.dll. To some, fixing those kind of errors is easy as there’s new version of directx. Errors of this kind can be as frustrating for anyone. That’s why it’s important to avoid them in the first place. As it has been used for much different applications in Windows, directx was designed to be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Direct X, and should work fine with a newer version of Directx. Fixing directx errors can be easy more easily to professionals, but to some like the novices it would be a great challenge. It is best to use as stated the latest version, install it and use a registry cleaner. By using it, be sure not to make any mistake as it can possibly get your operation system to crash and totally get lost of its precious life to you. DirectX affects the registry like every other DLL, which resides there but just like other DLL’s it should get fine. Your computer should always be taken care of even if there is no problem like those of the directx errors. Like us humans, it needs proper nourishment to get us going each day. Always maintain...