Ready to Drop Kick Your PC?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

There's a famous scene in the classic movie Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that's ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like that: To recognize and fix what's ...

Go green: Shut down idle PCs

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Q. I've heard that frequently turning my computer on and off can hurt the performance of internal parts. But I don't want to leave it on all the time either and waste power. What's the best course? A. While it once might have been true that computer hard drives ...

Beginners Guides: Back up and Restore Data in WinXP

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

PCStats has published a guide about backing up data in Windows XP "Sure, if you've read our article on hard drive restoration you know that there are ways to recover lost data cheaply and easily, but this can lead to a false sense of security. What happens when a hard drive ...