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Archive for March, 2010

Can laptops be to cold?

If you are using your laptop in a cool environment of chilling weather you shouldn’t have any problem with your laptop running. Problems are caused when your laptop becomes hot so the cooler the better, even if you aim a large desk fan at it you should be alright. Things to avoid; Wet Environments Hot [...]

If I restore my laptop, will all viruses be gone?

If you have a laptop, and you use the CD to restore it back to when you first got it this will remove all viruses as it will format the hard drive of the laptop. But beware as all your files will be deleted too so it’s only recommended if you have made a backup [...]

Password Protect Windows 7 Laptop

In this tutorial I will cover how to password protect a Windows 7 Laptop. It’s highly recommended if you travel with your laptop to put a password to secure it as if your laptop was to fall into the wrong hands it could cause serious problems such as confidential data lost. Turn on your Laptop, [...]

Laptop Saying “Operating System Not Found” on start up

If you experience your laptop “Operating System Not Found” upon start-up this means there is a serious problem, this normally means ones of the following problems; Your laptops Windows has been deleted (C:\Windows\ Folder) Your laptops MBR (Master Boot Record) has been corrupted Your laptops hard drive is broken Chances are that either the first [...]

How do I reset my laptop back to factory default settings

If you want to set your laptop back to the state you got it in (Factory Default) it really depends on your laptop make and model, but there are generally three ways or resetting your laptop. A Laptop Recovery CD (Should have come with your laptop) A hidden restore partition that can be accessed when [...]

My laptop screen has gone dark

If the brightness on your laptop has gone really dark this is normally because you’ve hit the keyboard combination for turning down the backlight on your laptop, its easy to fix this problem, if you look on your keyboard you should see an FN Key and you should see either a brightness up and down [...]

Can I use my laptop while on charging?

You can use your laptop while the battery is charging. It might take slightly longer to charge as it will be drawing more power while your computer is on, so it may be best to keep your computer turned off when you charge if you can help it. But there is absolutely no reason why [...]

Why is my laptop not playing music or sound?

If your computer is not playing any sound or music at all you may have simply muted your laptops volume, or you may be missing your Audio/Sound Drivers for your laptop, to find out what one of the problems you will have to see if you can change the volume for your system, if you [...]

My laptop takes ages to Start Up

After using your laptop for a short while, installing programs, updating software you may notice that your computer startup may start to take longer to start up, this can be fixed by removing programs from your “Start Up List” by removing programs from your start-up your computer does not have to load so many things [...]

Laptop become slow over time?

Has your laptop become slow over time, is it not as fast as it used to be when you first got it? Then chances are the problem has occurred because your computer hard drive has become fragmented and can no longer open files and programs as fast as it used to be able to, it’s [...]