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Having your own computer at home was not an unusual or luxurious. Development era of human demands for more forward thinking and fast, with the help of a machine called a computer is used as a supporting tool.

Have a moment you feel the decline in the performance of your computer? your computer becomes slow and slower to access data, open an application like music player, video player, copy data, or other standard applications ? when you only use the computer for ordinary jobs such as typing, editing pictures, chat or other regular jobs.

If the answer is YES, why it happen? The decline in computer performance is affecting many aspects, infected with the virus, the program / application is damaged, corrupted system operation, processor temperature is too hot, or have a weak / damaged your computer hardware. Computer troubleshooting should require special expertise. But what if you live far from downtown and your computer through the same thing (a decline in performance)?

I will try for a little help to find answers to the problem, until we can to fix it yourself with little risk of further damage.

Before go to a deeper analysis (install the system, change the program, update the registry or change the computer’s memory), you can try to restore the first step to your computer’s performance.

Try these tips restore your computer’s performance before convicting damage to the hardware

Some functions to take care of your hard drive and restore that performance :

ScanDisk:

program ==> Accessories ==> systemTools ==> Scandisk

Defragmenter:

program ==> Accessories ==> systemTools ==> Diskdefragmenter.

Defragment help to locate files can be ordered so as to accelerate data access.

DiskCleanUp:

program ==> Accessories ==> systemTools ==> DiskCleanup

Allows you to clean hard drive of useless junk. It can be delete the garbage. By removing this will save remaining space on your hard disk.

Clean all Inside Prefetch Folder:

explorer ==> Drive C: ==> WINDOWS ==> Prefetch.

Allows you to clean log/ remove all traces of all applications ever run / in the execution of stored in the prefetch folder.

If the above tips can not solve the problem, there may crash the program or the possibility of damage to computer hardware. Please contact your computer services in your town.

Computer errors are very common and every computer user may face different kinds of issues so they should learn about the solutions of the common computer related problems. The common factors that cause problems in computer are viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, adware, corrupted registry, faulty hardware, low memory, low capacity hard disk, low CPU speed and stuffing computers with large number of software applications. In this article, I have compiled a list of the most common computer problems and their solutions.

Computer is very slow

This is very common issue and it arises due to the several factors such as too many programs running at the startup, low RAM, low processor speed, spyware running as a background application, errors in the Windows registry and the buildup of the garbage files on the hard disk. Scanning your computer with an up-to-dated anti virus and anti spyware program, cleaning and repairing Windows registry, increasing memory, deleting temporary files, deselecting the programs at startup and uninstalling unwanted software applications can solve this problem to a very large extent.

Network Server is not accessible

In a networked environment every computer depends on the server for logon authentication, files access, internet and printing access and sharing server resources. The downtime and the communication failure with the server are very problematic and frustrating for the users. Check both end of the network cable and make sure that the attached RJ-45 connectors are properly plugged into the LAN card and hub/switch. Ping the server’s IP and make sure you get the reply from server. Ensure that your server is on and working fine. A large number of the running applications on the server and simultaneous access to the server from a number of users can slow down the performance and speed of the server. Scan your PC with an up-to-dated antivirus program because certain viruses and spyware are responsible for the communication failure. Replace your LAN card with new one and assign different IP address and try to connect with the server.

Computer locks up or freezes

Missing .dll files, viruses, faulty registry, defective RAM and spyware slows down the performance of the server and it locks up frequently. Scanning PC with the anti virus and anti spyware program, cleaning and repairing registry and increasing RAM can solve this issue.

Computer won’t boot

Faulty power cable, power extension and power supply all contributes to this problem. Checking one by one each of the above components can pinpoint the problematic part. Simply replace that part with new one and your compute is okay.

Computer reboots itself

Defective cooling fan, power supply, RAM, viruses and spyware can cause this to happen.

Memory usage is maximum in computer

Either the memory is less than the recommend memory to run certain applications, swap memory chips with each other, scan your computer for viruses and spyware, increasing the page file and physical memory can overcome this problem.

Browser’s home page has changed itself

This is most likely a spyware problem and scanning computer with an up-to-dated anti spyware program can fix this issue.

Computer’s clock losing time

If you see that your computer’s clock is losing time frequently replace your CMOS battery.

My computer can’t get connected to internet

Check IP address, gateway address, scan your PC for viruses and spyware, check network cables and make sure that server’s or gateway’s firewall application is not blocking http requests from your PC.

Computer making noises

Faulty RAM, VGA, hard disk, Sound card, Processor and other components produce noises. Make sure that each hardware device is properly connected inside the PC and if the problem is still not resolved then replace the faulty hardware component with new one.

The below information is for Computers with Windows O.S

How to increase the computer speed using msconfig utility? How to hide your important data from other users?
How to increase the computer speed using msconfig utility?

You can configure windows XP to boot up using minimum list of startup programs and services. You can boot your system faster by short listing the startup programs and services list. Each item in startup list loads automatically after windows starts. By using the “Windows System Configuration (msconfig)” utility, you can create the list of windows necessary programs which allows for performance improvement while starting up your computer.
Perform the following steps to edit the msconfig utility:

To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button to open “Run” and type “msconfig” then press Ok button to run configuration utility.

Here a small windows dialog box will appear with the title “System Configuration Utility”. There are many options tab here, for example
General
System.ini
Win.ini
Boot.ini
Services
Startup
But we will discuss here on only Services and Startup tab.
First click on the Startup tab to view the programs list that begins on windows startup.
Here you can examine the all programs list and uncheck the program that is unnecessary or slow down your computer boot up process. Click on Apply button to save the Startup tab setting.
Now click on “Services” tab to view the all running windows services. On the bottom, first check the option “Hide All Microsoft Services” to hide all windows necessary services.

When you have checked the option “Hide All Microsoft Services” then you can see what unnecessary services are running. Uncheck the unnecessary service box to remove it and press Apply button to save the Services tab setting.

How to hide your important data from other users?
Normally when you need to secure your important data from other users, then your first choice is to burn it on CD or put it to removable drive instead of hard drive. But imagine if your data size is more than 100 GB then it is not easy to burn it on CD. No worry, you can save your full drive from other users access using this trick.

Perform the given steps to hide your system data partition:

To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. First click on Start button to open “Run” and type “CMD” (without the quotes) then press Ok button to open Command Prompt.

Now type diskpart on the blinking cursor and wait for 5 seconds to appear diskpart> utility.

To show the list of volume, type list volume command after the diskpart> prompt, this command will show you all system drives detail.

if you need to hide F drive then first type select volume 2 (in this case) and press enter button.After loading volume, type remove letter F (in this case) to hide F drive.

Now exit from command prompt and open My Computer to verify drives.
But next time, when you want to unhide the D drive, just run assign drive F command after loading volume 2.