How to Fix your Slow Internet Connection

Let’s say you have subscribed to a fast broadband Internet connection at home and you are getting the expected download speeds that were initially promised by the ISP.

However, sometimes it may happen that the speed of the same Internet connection slows down and then even simple websites may take forever to load on your machine.
Troubleshooting your Slow Internet Connection

There can be several reasons why you may be getting slower-than-usual Internet connection speeds. For instance, you could be accessing the web during peak hours. Or your download manager could be downloading files in the background thus consuming all the bandwidth. Or, if you are accessing the Internet over Wi-Fi, maybe you’re too far off from the wireless router.

Then there are external factors that may slow down the Internet. You are probably getting Internet through your existing phone line so if there’s a fault in the wiring, that may negatively affect your connection speed. In fact, if your Internet connection is not stable and keeps dropping off frequently, blame the phone company.

Does Your Telephone Line Need Repair?

You don’t need any special equipment to determine if your phone line is the real culprit but before we get there, let’s run a few simple tests to discount all the other possibilities.

Test #1. Power-cycle the router and modem – unplug the cables, wait for couple of minute and then power on the modem followed by the router.

If you have been experiencing connectivity issues after a power-outage, power cycling will most probably fix the issue.

Test #2. Close all applications including any firewalls and anti-virus software. Then open speedtest.net to determine the actual download and upload speed of your Internet connection.

If you have Wi-Fi at your place, remove the router for a moment and connect the ADSL modem directly to your computer’s Ethernet port via a physical LAN cable. Repeat the speed test. Did you see any improvement in the connection speed?

Test #3. To ensure that none of the viruses or spyware programs are responsible for your slow Internet, open command prompt and run the following command:

This will easily help you figure out if any of the programs on your computer are silently connecting to the Internet without your knowledge. Should you find a strange process in the netstat result listing, kill it through the Task Manager.

Test #4. If your Internet speed woes aren’t over yet, it’s time to inspect the phone line. No, you don’t have to climb that telephone pole as the stats from your DSL modem /router will alone give the required data.

Open the web dashboard of your modem /router and note the following values for the downstream connection (not upstream). The fields are generally available under Statistics –> ADSL.

ADSL Line Stats

1. Line Attenuation (or Loop Loss) – It measures how much signal is lost between the phone exchange and your modem. Great the distance between the exchange and your home, the higher the attenuation. Anything below 50dB is considered acceptable.

2. Sync Speed (or Rate) – The speed at which the router connects to the exchange equipment.

3. SNR Margin (or Noise Margin) – This represents the difference between your current SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) and the SNR that’s required to serve a particular speed. If the SNR Margin is low, you may experience frequent disconnections. Ideally, this should be 12dB or higher.

Once you have all these values, paste them into the ADSL Calculator and it will give you an estimate of the maximum speed that you get from the ISP.

If the SNR Margin is low or the Line Attenuation is high or if the calculated maximum speed is lesser than what you are paying for, the fault lies somewhere between your modem and the phone exchange. Keep a record of all these values at different times of the day and give your phone company a calls at its something that only they can fix.

Source:-labnol.org

Repair And Fix Internet Explorer 8 With Fix IE Utility

If you are having some problem while running Internet Explorer or it got corrupted from a malware attack, then you can try the Fix IE utility to get it back to normal. Usually, the source of such problems is that the DLL and ocx files of the Internet Explorer get unregistered due to a malware attack or some other reason, this tool simply re-registers them.

If you are wondering what I meant by the registering and unregistering of DLL files, you can read this Previous post to get some idea of it. Running this utility is very simple, download it from the link mentioned at the end of this post, unzip it and run its executable file Fix IE Utility. Since it is a portable utility, it doesn’t need any installation. Here is the first screen which is displayed when you run it.

Hit the Run Utility button, it will ask you for the confirmation to re-register the DLL and OCX files.

Click OK and it will fix the problems regarding the internet explorer’s system files. But please make sure that you close all IE windows before running this tool.

Download IE Fix Utilit

I have successfully tested this utility over Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7. It also works with Internet Explorer Enjoy!

Source:-addictivetips.com

Internet Explorer 9 Hits 10 Million Downloads

Microsoft has revealed the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded by 10 million web users, just six weeks after its launch.

As research by Microsoft revealed web users only use 12 of the features in the browser regularly, the software company decided to give IE9 less-cluttered user interface. In keeping with the look of Microsoft's recent OS, Windows 7, the browser is framed in "glass" so web users see a page's content first and foremost.

IE9 also makes use of a number of functions first introduced in Windows 7, including the ability to pin sites to the taskbar, tear off a tab -- by dragging it away from the browser -- and using Windows Aero Snap to view two sites side-by-side.

"We are particularly excited about developer reaction and feedback to IE9 Beta, with 37 million pages views of our Test Drive site and 13,000 pieces of feedback submitted," Microsoft said, adding IE9 is "on track to be our fastest adopted browser ever."

The web browser hit the two million downloads mark just two days after its September 15 launch.

IE9 can be downloaded from Microsoft's site.

Source : PC World

Online economy in UK is now worth £100bn

THE UK’s internet economy is now worth a staggering £100bn a year, according to a landmark survey commissioned by search giant Google.

The online economy now represents 7.2 per cent of UK GDP – more than construction, transport or utilities. The report shows this share is likely to grow by about 10 per cent a year, reaching 10 per cent of GDP by 2015.

The survey, carried out by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), shows the UK is among the top e-commerce economies, exporting £2.80 for every £1 imported. This is at odds with the offline economy, which exports 90p for every £1 imported.

Overall, the UK ranks sixth, scoring similarly to the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland and better than Germany, the US, and France. The highest-ranked country is Denmark. Within the UK London was the leading region.

The industry now employs 250,000 people in the UK. Around 60 per cent of the online economy is driven by online shopping and the cost of users’ connections to the internet.

The number of adults who bought goods or services online in the past year totalled 31m, or 62 per cent of all adults.

Source : cityAM

E-mage: a new tool to secure personal information online

An increasing number of internet users are now taking the help of a new online identity security system --e-mage-- to secure their personal data over the cyberworld .

"At E-mage management, we help people to hunt for their fake profiles online on different websites and social networking groups that defame their entities, posing problems for them in seeking jobs, etc.," Karnika Seth, Cyber lawyer and provider of E-mage service, said.

"What we do is after having fetched such profiles, we sort out ways and means to get them deleted permanently," she said.

On an average, Seth addresses one such case every week. There has been an increasing number of fake profiles online on different websites like blogs, microblogs or social networking sites where fraudsters avenge their grudge or harass someone by creating their profile online that hampers his or her reputation.

"These fake profiles not only affect an individual on the personal level by creating difficulties in employment, ruining his or her social and professional connections, damaging reputation, but it also has an effect on their finances, in case of customers' or corporate data being stolen," another cyber crime specialist said.

Rashmi Sood (name changed), a researcher with a firm in the US, had sought the help of e-mage management to deal with her derogatory 'fake profile' which someone had created.

"I was not getting a job despite being the best in my field because someone had created an online fake profile of mine that had derogatory remarks about me.

"Here abroad, employers conduct an online screening of individuals before incorporating them in their organization. When I enquired with the organization, they directed me to this respective website."

Sood had registered a case with the police but it yielded no results, after which she turned to e-mage management for help.

"The police is not well trained or equipped to handle cyber crime cases and as such most of the time such cases are not registered. Even if they are registered, there is no investigation. That is why despite the IT Act being so old, conviction rate in cyber crime cases till date is only three," another cyber lawyer said.

Source : The Economic Times

Internet Explorer Browser Slowly Losing Users

According to StatCounter.com, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing web browser users.
The web analytics revealed that the amount of Internet Explorer users has fallen to below 50% in the month of September. Although Internet Explorer is still the leader in the web browser market, the combined market of web browsers is now larger than Microsoft’s browser.

At one point in time, Internet Explorer controlled over 90% of the web browsing market (mostly because most Windows computers were preloaded with Internet Explorer as the web browser). However, antitrust suits filed against Microsoft in the United States and European Union forced the company to offer Windows customers a list of web browsing operating systems to choose from.

Additionally, there are more web browsers in market now that are more sophisticated than Internet Explorer and are catching the eyes of many users, such as Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and Mozilla’s Firefox.
To stay in the game, Microsoft has noted the features it’s rivals offer (but they don’t) and rolled it into their latest version of product, Internet Explorer 9.

According to Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter’s CEO, “Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%.”

Source: Concept News

Fix Wireless Connection

If you need to fix your wireless connection, here's some troubleshooting tips to solve your connectivity problems. You are probably on a computer with a network connection, you wouldn't be able to see this page otherwise. :)

Many new laptops come with a physical switch that disables the wireless connection. Consult your computer’s manual and make sure that if you have such a switch, it is switched "on".

But what if the switch is "on" and your wireless connection still does not work?

Take a look at Windows Device Manager and make sure that the wireless card is listed there Learn how to access your Windows Device Manager.

If there is trouble with the Network adapter in the Device Manger, it will have a yellow exclamation mark next to it.

Next, log to Windows Control Panel/Network Connection, and make sure that there is Local Network Connection for the device.

If there is no icon for your Local Network Connection, Reboot your computer with your wireless switch "on". Windows would install the Network Connection.

Right click on the Local Network Connection icon, and choose properties.

If every thing is good thus far, look at the TCP/IP properties of the Wireless Local Connection.

Notice that the TCP/IP is set to "Obtain an IP Address and DNS Automatically", unless you were instructed at the first time when you set the Wireless to use a Static IP, you should leave it on "Obtain Automatically".

Many new wireless laptops and wireless ready desktops come with a configuration that loads the original wireless manufacturer’s utility at startup. The wireless connection can be maintained only by one agent. As a result, most of these utilities are programmed to switch off the Windows Zero Configuration (WZC).

Many people prefer the flexibility of WZC. In such a case the 3rd party utility has to be disabled from starting, and WZC has to be initiated again.

What if the wireless connection seems to be working and you can see in the wireless application that there is a signal and an available Wireless source but you still cannot use the Internet?

Seeing a signal in the wireless configuration application does not mean that you actually have a functional Wireless connection.

If you can use the Internet with your wireless computer, the wireless connection is OK. If you do not have an Internet connection available (or the connection does not work) a simple way to ascertain that you have a basic wireless connection is to try to use the Internet browser in a wireless client computer and find out if you can connect to the (Access Point). Most AP's are encrypted with a key, it is this key that is needed to complete the connection. Once you have the key and you try to connect WZC should ask to enter the key.

Hopefully these troubleshooting tips will help you with your wireless problems. If you have other tips or troubles, please leave a comment.

source:- www.computerrepair.com

Five reasons to use Internet Explorer 9

Wondering whether to try the just-released beta of Internet Explorer 9? I've put the beta through its paces in a review for Computerworld. Here are five reasons IE9 is worth a try.

It's fast

IE 8 is slow and sluggish --- according SunSpider tests I ran a while back, it took about six times as long to complete SunSpider JavaScript tests as did its next slowest rival, Firefox 3.6.

It's sluggish no longer. Tests I ran on IE9 show that it's now faster than Firefox. It completed the benchmarks in an average time of 432 ms, faster than Firefox 4 beta, which completed them in 535 ms. It was still slower than Safari, Opera, and Chrome, but not by a wide margin: Safari completed them in 387 ms, Opera in 343 ms, and Chrome in 322 ms.


It's better-looking

IE9 features a cleaner-looking, stripped-down interface with tabs at the top. Gone are most buttons, menus, and controls. True, now all the browsers look basically the same, thanks to Chrome's interface innovation. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. And in IE9's case, it's a very good thing.

However, by default, a Bing toolbar is turned on, conflicting with the clean look. If you're not a fan of toolbars in general, or Bing specifically, it's easy enough to turn off.

It warns you about add-ons' performance problems

Add-ons can add a lot of overhead to browser load time and browsing time. Load down your browser with enough of them, and no matter the browser's basic speed, it can become sluggish.

IE9 has a very nice feature that automatically warns you via a pop-up when your add-ons increase load time and browsing time, and let you disable them. (If you want, you can later turn them on.) You can see the new tool in action, below. Other browsers, notably Firefox, would do well to follow suit, and develop tools like this as well.

It integrates with Windows 7

If you're a Windows 7 user, you'll find some useful features designed for that operating system. You can pin a Web site to the taskbar for easy launching, especially important in a world in which Web-based apps are replacing desktop apps.

When you launch a pinned site, IE9 automatically takes on the color of the site for its forward and back buttons, and displays the Web site's icon on the upper left of the browser.

In addition, developers can make use of the Windows 7 Jump List feature for pinned sites. So a news site, for example, could let people immediately navigate to a sports or technology section directly from the taskbar, without first having to launch the browser, and navigate.


It has a double-duty Address Bar

IE9 takes not just its new look from Chrome, but another innovation as well --- having the Address Bar do double-duty as a search box. So you can either type Web addresses or search terms. Microsoft calls it One Box. No matter what you call it, it's useful.

Source: blogs.computerworld.com

Rogue Antivirus Attack - Warning Microsoft

Microsoft is advising users to be wary of a rogue antivirus program that creates fake warnings that appear to come from the user's browser.

The program, called MSIL/Zeven by Microsoft, detects what browser is being used and then launches a page virtually identical to pages generated by Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that warn users when they are about to surf to a malicious site.

A key difference is that there will be a place on the page for users to click to download an antivirus program to protect them.

"All the 'updates' point to a copy of MSIL/Zeven that promises to provide 'a new approach to windows detection,'" blogged Daniel Radu of Microsoft Malware Protection Center Dublin. "Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome do not offer such a solution when a Website is blocked. When installed, the product [Win7 AV] looks very genuine: It allows you to scan files, tells you when you're behind on doing your updates, and enables you to tweak your security and privacy settings. ... However, the features don't work; everything is there just to look nice, not to offer any kind of protection."

When another warning appears telling users about malicious files discovered on the machine, users are told the files cannot be deleted until they update. The idea is to get users to pay for the full version of the product, which has the ability to download updates, Radu wrote. However, these files "are totally bogus."

"If you decide to buy the product, this rogue opens an HTML window enabled with 'Safe Browsing Mode' and high strength encryption to 'help' and 'protect' you while completing your purchase," he blogged. "Of course, these features are totally worthless and don't actually do anything in the way of securing your credit card details."

The main page of the fake AV itself is designed to look similar to the Microsoft Security Essentials Web page, Radu noted.

"The people behind it have even copied the awards received by Microsoft Security Essentials and link to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center - pretty sneaky of them," he blogged.

Microsoft couldn't say much about the attack vector the mind or minds behind Zeven are using to infect people in the first place, but told eWEEK users should keep their computers protected with up-to-date antivirus.

Source: securitywatch.eweek.com

How Browser Addons Affect your PC

Add-ons, also known as ActiveX controls, browser extensions, browser helper objects, or toolbars, can improve your experience on a website by providing multimedia or interactive content, such as animations. However, some add-ons can cause your computer to stop responding or display content that you don't want, such as pop-up ads.

If you suspect that browser add-ons are affecting your computer, you might want to disable all add-ons to see if that solves the problem.

Hide all To disable all add-ons temporarily

• Click the Start button , click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Internet Explorer (No Add-ons).


• If disabling all add-ons solves the problem, you might want to use Manage Add-ons to disable all add-ons permanently and then turn on add-ons only as you need them. To disable an add-on, follow the steps below.

To disable add-ons by using Manage Add-ons

1. Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Internet Explorer.


2. Do one of the following:

•In Internet Explorer 8, click the Tools button, and then click Manage Add-ons.
•In Internet Explorer 7, click the Tools button, point to Manage Add-ons, and then click Enable or Disable Add-ons.>

3. Do one of the following:

•In Internet Explorer 8, under Show, click All Add-ons.
•In Internet Explorer 7, in the Show list, click Add-ons currently loaded in Internet Explorer.

4. Click the add-on you want to disable, and then do one of the following:

•In Internet Explorer 8, click Disable.

•In Internet Explorer 7, under Settings, click Disable.



Repeat step 4 for every add-on you want to disable. When you are finished, click Close in Internet Explorer 8, or click OK in Internet Explorer 7.

Source: windows.microsoft.com

Free Dell Web Browser Tool Protects Desktop from Malware

Dell, through its Kace unit, is making available free Web browser security software that works by creating a protective "sandbox" on the desktop to isolate the user's desktop from malware or other harmful actions that might be encountered browsing the Web.

"Browsers, we all know, are a big target," says Bob Meinhardt, president of Dell Kace, the systems management vendor acquired by Dell earlier this year.

[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and Security Central newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]

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Calling it simply Secure Browser, Dell Kace executives acknowledge the free browser security software works somewhat along the lines of that seen with browser sandboxing technology from GreenBorder Technologies, which was acquired by Google in 2007, and integrated into the Google Chrome product. Bob Kelly, senior product manager of Dell Kace, says Kace derives its technology, which it likes to call "application virtualization," from its acquisition of the company Computers in Motion two years ago.

The Dell Kace Secure Browser tool is said to use a kind of re-direction so that browser activity is shifted to an alternate area of the computer to isolate and contain harmful code. The 10MB security software, available for download from Dell's Kace site, is based on the current Firefox browser and Adobe Flash and Reader Plug-Ins.

The security tool also lets the user create what are called whitelists and blacklists of Web sites allowed to be visited. In a managed environment, the Dell Kace browser security software can be included as a managed application with the Dell Kace K1000 v5.1 Management Appliance, typically used in mid- to large enterprises.

Microsoft offers web browser choice to IE users

Millions of European Internet Explorer (IE) users will have the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, Microsoft has announced.

It follows a legal agreement between Microsoft and Europe's Competition Commission in December 2009.

Microsoft committed to letting Windows PC users across Europe install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Microsoft IE as a default.

Figures suggest that over half the world's internet users have IE.

Testing for the update is already underway in the UK, Belgium and France.

The software update choice will arrive automatically for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 customers, according to a blog post by Dave Heiner, Microsoft's vice president and deputy general counsel.

The blog also contains screen grabs of the message as it will appear.

"Users who get the choice screen will be free to choose any browser or stick with the browser they have, as they prefer," wrote Mr Heiner.

Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera are among the alternative browsers that people will be offered.

"Millions of people who have never really thought about which browser to use will now be forced to make a choice," said BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on his blog.

"That presents Microsoft's rivals with a unique marketing opportunity."

Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker described the news as "an important milestone towards helping people take control of their online lives."

Internet will run out of IP addresses in just 500 days

Computer experts have expressed the opinion that in around 500 days, the internet will run out of IP addresses. IP addresses are widely used to differentiate one computer from another and that getting running out may crate many problems in the computing world.

The unique numbers, which are known as Internet protocol addresses, help identify the world’s networked devices. An IP address generally has four numbers from 0 to 255 which is mainly used to distinguish one computer from another. It has been observed that about four billion combinations can be made out of it. But the proliferation of networked devices means soon that will no longer be enough.

In a way, IP addresses are like phone numbers, which need to be entered correctly if a right connection is to be made. So the ability to uniquely identify everything in the computer world is essential. IP addresses are like phone numbers in another way, too.

“Unlike the telephone system, it’s not easy to just add more digits,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Geoff Huston, as saying.

Although every telephone number in Australia was successfully altered, the phones themselves didn’t change. Humans simply dialed an extra number and get connected to the person.

Source: dailynews365.com

Web Users Tracking without Cookies

If you're interested in protecting your online privacy, you've probably taken steps like deleting browser cookies or turning on the private browsing features of Safari and Google Chrome.

That's supposed to prevent Web sites from tracking you across repeat visits. But a forthcoming paper prepared by an Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist shows that they're not really effective at all.

The reason is simple, but counterintuitive: Modern browsers have been designed to send Web sites a torrent of information thought to be innocuous, including detailed version numbers, operating system information, screen size, what fonts are installed, and sometimes even in what order the fonts were installed. Firefox, for instance, sends every Web site a version number such as "Intel Mac OS X 10/Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9."

Once this collection of facts--which are individually anonymous--is combined together and compared against other users' web browsers, the data can become personally identifiable. (It's like being able to find someone's name if you know their birth date, ZIP code, and gender, which is not that difficult a task.)

Peter Eckersley the Australian computer scientist working at EFF who wrote the report, calls the technique "browser fingerprinting." Eckersley's paper will be presented at a privacy symposium in Berlin in July.

"There are implications both for privacy policy and technical design," concludes Eckersley, who believes that the law should treat browser fingerprints as personally identifiable information, which can be subject to greater restrictions. He also recommends that browsers be changed so they send less information about their configuration settings to Web sites.

If a Web browser has Flash and Java activated, Eckersley says, the odds of its fingerprint being unique are about 1 in 450,000. He collected data from hundreds of thousands of people who connected to EFF's "Panopticlick" Web site.

Source: news.cnet.com

Microsoft Software Support

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In addition with Windows operating system, Software giant Microsoft has also introduced a large number of products under different categories, targeting towards the different user group. A few of them are summarized here:
Internet applications
• Internet Explorer
• Windows Mail
• Windows Live
• Windows Live Messenger
• Windows Live Writer
• Microsoft Messenger for Mac
Office applications
• Microsoft Office, including:
o Core — Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
o Others — Access, InfoPath, Publisher, FrontPage, Microsoft Groove, Visio, Picture Manager, Microsoft Project, OneNote, Communicator, Assistant, Student, Producer
o Mac — Entourage & Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
• Office web services — Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Office Update
• Office companion servers — Live Communications Server, Project Server, SharePoint Portal Server
Utilities
• Microsoft Calculator
• Microsoft Paint
• Microsoft Notepad
• Microsoft Chart
• Microsoft Reader
• Windows Defender
• Windows SteadyState
• Microsoft Security Essentials
Each product offered by Microsoft has a particular software program. These software are developed and designed to make computing a better experience for you. However, there might be some issues with the software of Microsoft product that you are using on your computer, which might lead you in trouble at times.
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Online PC Repair

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Online service providers offer a wide range of services at variant rates. iYogi Technical Services is one of them. iYogi offers round- -the-clock PC support and a variety of services at an affordable price. Some of the services offered through online support for PC repair are enlisted below:
• Installation, un-installation, re-installation of software
• Troubleshooting computer hardware and software errors
• Configuring settings of different applications
• PC Optimization
In addition to all the aforementioned services, many services are also offered through remote support. In online support, you just have to contact any remote service provider and they can reach out to you at the comfort of your home or office. Any tech expert from your service provider will remotely access your PC after taking your permission.
After accessing your system, tech experts will diagnose your system with great care in order to find out the root cause behind the occurrence of these technical issues. After diagnosing your system, the tech expert will carry out the necessary steps in order to repair your PC. In this manner, your PC gets repaired without any pain of transportation.
In case, you take your PC to any service centre, it would take roughly around three to four days to get it repaired and you will have to pay every time you go there. But this is not the case with online support; you just have to pay once and you can access unlimited services for the specified time. If you call any technician at your premises, you have to pay an extra amount for the services. So, it would be better to say that online technical support for PC repair is more beneficial as compared to on-site tech support.

Trojan Removal without Installation of any Antivirus Software

Trojan is basically a software program that can perform enviable functions on your computer. In addition to this, it offers the facility to intruders to easily access your system. Trojans can get entry into your system from many methods, such as e-mail attachments, software downloads, etc.
Once any Trojan gets entry into your system, it allows remote access of your system to hacker. After getting access to your system, hacker can perform various tasks like, stealing your confidential information, installation of software, deletion or modification of files, keystroke logging, etc.
You can scan your system with Windows Live OneCare safety scanner in order to get information about malicious programs installed on your system. This scanner consists of various scan types and you can select any scan for your system. Its protection scan will check your system for Trojans viruses and other malicious software.
In addition to this, it will check for the open ports of your computer, which can make your system more vulnerable to online threats. After scanning, it will produce a report, which contains the number of files scanned, the number of infected files found, the type of infection and virus name, the number of common open ports, etc.
Another scan type of Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is clean up scan, which will find out the redundant temporary files of your system. Tune up scan will provide you the information about your hard disk drive. After scanning your system with Windows Live OneCare safety scanner, you can remove Trojans with Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.
This tool can check the systems running Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 for infections and can also remove these infections. When its detection and removal process gets complete, it will display a report, which will contain information about all the malicious software detected and removed.

Online Computer Repair Services

At times your computer behaves strangely like, taking much time in launching applications, automatically shutting down, hard disk becomes inaccessible, etc. Under such circumstances, it is required that you should go for proper computer repair services.
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Features
You will receive a lot of services while accessing online support for computer repair. Some of them are enlisted as:
• Installation, re-installation, and un-installation of software
• Diagnostic & repair of the hardware issues
• Troubleshooting software errors
• Optimizing your PC’s speed and performance
• Resolving driver conflicts
• Resolving Internet browsing problems
After accessing online support for your computer, it will become fit and healthy once again.
Usability
When you will subscribe to remote support for repairing your computer, then you just have to give your permission to access your system to its tech expert. After accessing your system, tech expert will diagnose your technical issues; and will carry out the necessary steps, in order to resolve your technical issues.
Limitation
If you opt for remote support for computer repair, then you do not have to take pain of transportation. But in on-site support, you either have to carry your system to any service centre or you have to call any technician at your premises.
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Windows 7 File Recovery Software & Tools for Recovering Lost Data

Features
There may be manual fault or some unavoidable circumstances related with technical issues, when you lost your important home or business files (such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Bkf, Zip), e-mails, photos, music and other rare things.
Although this happens very rarely, but the data once lost can take long time to recover or may be not be recovered at all, so there should be adequate management for data backup to assure that you access important files and folders anytime.
You would be considering me too much obscene, but I have suffered from data lost on my Windows 7 computer recently, that’s why I want to discuss with you about some important data recovery methods for Windows 7 and you must add the data recovery agent.
First I want to tell you about prevention, because it is an old saying that “prevention is better than cure”. As you do Ctrl+S with your word document every time to ensure it is saved regularly, similarly you should make a practice to take data backup of your hard drive memory on an external hard disk or other optical device, which can be used to combat such situations.
Next, when you are trapped under the situation and you don’t left with much of options, then Windows 7 recovery software is a better alternative. Some of the best recovery software available in the market are Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery v4.1, Advance Windows 7 Data Recovery Software and Recover My Files data recovery software.

Usability
Windows 7 data recovery software can effectively restore or recover entire data of your hard disk including deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, infection with computer viruses, and unexpected system shutdown or software failure. You can also recover your data, which is located in corrupted partition, such asFAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS & NTFS5 of Windows 7 based hard drive. Windows 7 data recovery software are also compatible enough for recovering data from other types of data storage media such as floppy drives, flash drives, USB digital media, pen drive, zip drive, memory stick, multimedia card, secure digital card & many more.
Limitation
Data recovery is not possible with Windows 7 Recovery tools if it has been physically overwritten by low level disk format. You may face issues while recovering files located on hard disk which is well encrypted.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install Without Losing Data?

Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, and media centers. It was released in 2001 and has been the most popular operating system all over the world.
If your computer is not working properly then, you might need to repair or format your computer. Repairing a computer will fix the corrupt operating system, and it will not delete your data.
Follow these steps to repair Windows XP computer without any data loss:
Step 1: Firstly, you need to insert the XP CD into CD drive and restart your computer. As computer shuts down, keep pressing DELETE to enter the BIOS setup. In the BIOS setup, set the 'First Boot device' to CD-ROM and exit saving these settings.

Step 2: Now, your Windows XP computer will restart and a message will appear saying 'press any key to boot from CD'. Press space bar or any other key to continue.

Step 3: Next, you have to wait for few minutes as setup will inspect your hardware and Windows on computer. Setup will also load some necessary files to repair the Windows XP computer.

Step 4: Now you have to press F8 to accept the Windows XP license agreement, and then you have to select the drive which you want to repair. There may be more that 1 drives in some cases, then you can select the drive by using UP/DOWN arrow keys to select the drive which you wish to repair.

Step 5: Now, setup will examine the drive which you have selected and will go through 1 to 100% and a new window will appear on screen, hit F3 to continue and setup will reboot the Windows XP computer.

If you follow the above steps, you can repair your computer without any data loss.

Home Computer Repair Services - Save Money & Time

Nowadays, computer has become mandatory equipment for every home. Therefore, it is important to take care of computer’s health for its prolonged life.
Most of the problems faced by computers are simple and common in nature. There causes too, are more or less similar. Some basic issues are computer freezing, blue-screen error, no sound, auto restart, etc
You can easily resolve the above mentioned issues, if you take some important steps. Microsoft has enriched its operating system with memory management tools like Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter, which can take care of your computer’s memory. These are easy to execute even without much of computer knowledge. These utility organize your important files and remove the temporary and unwanted files, which are created while uninstalling and installing a program. This helps to create more space on your hard disk. These applications provide you a detailed report about your hard disk and help you take the right decision about your hard disk and we offer a computer support service so you can fix PC problems with our advice.
You should also check Windows start up programs, to repair your computer against slow performance. There can be lot of programs, which are not required or are outdated. You should remove those applications from your computer’s hard disk. In addition to that scan your computer with a compatible registry cleaner tool, which can fix Windows registry related issues.
To ensure good speed over Internet, you must delete your browser cookies on regular basis and also modem driver should be updated, if required.
In addition, you should ensure that you have a good antivirus protection, because viruses make your computer vulnerable towards other damages. This can lead to blue screen error, slow performance of computer, and hard disk crash. Above all, you should keep regular data back of your important files, so that you can combat any situation of data loss.

Your Windows XP Problems Resolved

Undoubtedly, Windows XP is a good operating system. But sometimes you may find certain issues with your computer running on Windows XP OS. Some of the randomly discovered issues are slow startup, SVCHOST.EXE error, blue-screen error, slow internet browsing, registry related error, shutdown issues, generic host WIN32 error and upgrade issue.
Most random issues of your Windows XP, like slow boot performance, slow browsing, blue-screen are easy to fix, with some basic tips and tricks. They just need your proper attention. For example, you should be habitual of defragmenting your hard disk on regular basis, scanning your PC with effective virus scanner every month, cleaning your windows registry with registry cleaner tool. Also don’t open any e-mail attachment, which comes from unknown destination, because it might be a source of virus. Keep your anti-virus program updated and to get effective results, contact your tech support provider without any delay.
When you keep working for a long time on your computer, your hard disk get cluttered with innumerous temporary files, Windows registry get flooded with invalid entries as a consequence of which, your system starts freezing or becomes totally unstable. You can fix hard disk related issues of your Windows XP, by using the disk defragmenter tool available in System Tools. You can access it as: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmenter. You can customize the tool to do partial or complete defragmentation. The process takes some time, so have patience.
To counteract the invalid entries in your XP operating system, you can go for online registry cleaner software, which can automatically fix Windows XP’s registry. You can also perform manual tweaking of corrupted Windows registries, if you are confident with your tech skills. The Windows XP Support platform is a comprehensive and resilient operating system for the Home and Business PC user.
However, if you fail to fix any of the Windows XP issues, you can contact some authentic organization, which is offering support for Windows XP. For regular support you can avail some suitable subscription too.

HP Support

Since its inception in the year 1947 HP has covered a long distance. Throughout its journey in this highly competitive sector, it has focused itself in developing models which are more and more user-friendly.
It debuted as a manufacturer of electronic test gadgets like signal generators, voltmeters, oscilloscopes, frequency counters and others.
From 1966 onwards, it started focusing on the computer manufacturing. The very first model was a notebook series HP laptop 2100/HP 1000.
But now it has become a global leader in computer manufacturing industry. It has dominated every segment, whether it is for home user or a business user. In addition to computer, it has also made entry in manufacturing of peripheral devices like scanners and printers. It has created such a reputation and trust in the market that every user before buying, does make a search on the latest available model from HP.
Let’s have a glance at a most recent HP model, HP Pavilion p6300Z series. This model was introduced with the launch of Windows 7. User will be getting its Home Premium version absolutely free. This machine will be empowered with AMD Sempron(TM) LE1300 processor [2.3GHz, 512KB L2, up to 1600MT/s bus], 4 GB DDR2-800MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs] memory, 750GB 7200 rpm SATA 3 GB/s hard drive and 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 [DVI, HDMI, VGA] graphic card. Hence, you will be getting incredible performance from your HP computer. In addition, Internet Explorer 8 will give you a better Internet experience.
Understanding the mind setup of customer with the launch of Windows 7, it has become an active partner for offering upgrade to eligible buyer.
To keep a deep penetration into the market it has also collaborated with major tech support provider so as to address any issue on the priority level.

Common computer problems and Easy fixes

If you have computer, then you have probably face these computer problems before. Once you purchase a computer, you must accept that sooner or later it will eventually crash due to a virus or some other massive error. If someone told you that your computer will last more than a decade, don’t believe it because it is just a myth or another sales pitch. But of course, you should take care of it if you want it to last for its third year without any defects. However, there are many people that would prefer to buy a new computer than spend some time trying to fix or figure out the problem with their laptop or desktop.
Usually you will need some kind of maintenance because your computer will tend to lose its original speed and performance. Well, here are some if the common problems that a computer user usually experience. Most of the time the biggest problem that your computer has is YOU – the owner or the user. There are many people that neglect the first signs of computer problems. You shouldn’t neglect those simple maintenance tasks that can enhance or prolong the life of your computer.
1. Computer speed or performance has slowed. There are several reasons why this happens to your computer. Lack of maintenance, fragmented data, corrupted registry, spyware, and unnecessary loading of computer programs and services can surely affect your PC speed and performance. Managing your programs and cleaning your registry can easily boost your computer’s performance speed up to 30%.
2. Computer system freezes and blue screens of death. You need to do some serious diagnostic procedures to effectively know the problem with your computer. Computer virus or spyware are maybe some of the reasons to your computer. Update your anti-spyware removal immediately to avoid this kind of problem and thoroughly scan your computer to see if it has any viruses or spywares. If you find that your computer is free from spyware then updating your hardware drive is the next step. Hardware drives makes it easier for your computer to effectively communicate with other hardware components. Without an updated driver the CPU locks up and may cause problems when you are using your computer. If that doesn’t work try to increase your Computer RAM to help avoid computer freezes. By increasing the RAM you get more use out your computer's computing power.
3. The computer keeps on rebooting again and again. This kind of problem is usually associated with hardware issue. Faulty power supply is usually the cause of this problem. Dirty or defective cooling fan is another reason why your computer is rebooting spontaneously. When your computer is trying to cool itself when the fan is defective it automatically switches off. Dust that accumulated in your computer can trap the heat inside which makes it hotter. What you should do is to clean the fan and make sure that it is running properly. Do not forget to check your power supply.
4. Noises and vibrations. This one is almost certainly that you have hardware issue. High pitched noises can be caused by electronic components. Whatever the reason, you conduct a small investigation. Unplug your computer and remove the case and run the computer to discover the origin of noise. If a loose wire or faulty fan is not the one that is making the noise then it may be time to call a computer tech to help you with your problem.
5. Your browser home page changed itself. It is known as "high-jacking" which is also caused by a Spyware installed on your system. The spyware in your computer installed a java script into your web browser that tells your browser to change settings hence changing the default home page of your browser. What you can do is to run an anti-virus or spyware program to remove the spyware from your computer. All of the problems stated in this article can be avoided easily by simply maintaining your computer.

Are you looking antivirus support to remove spyware embedded in PC?

Are you looking antivirus support to remove spyware embedded in PC? The typical computer purchase usually comes with some form of installed antivirus software, but it is worth noting that these programs cannot deal with a wide variety of threats such as adware and spyware simply because they cannot detect and destroy them.
Antivirus support program is capable of detecting them while they run. However, you may also want to take note that different programs have different ways of scanning, with some scanning the system memory that the applications use while others scan the files directly to try to detect malware.
Another way Spyware generally costs the user a lot of time not only by slowing down the PC but also displaying many pop up advertisements that distract the user. Also, people tend to spend a lot of time looking for solutions to spyware removal problems online. There are many programs online that can help you scan your computer system for malware and viruses, but not many can permanently get rid of all the detected malicious software.
Some people want to try removing spyware on their PCs manually but usually do not end up with very good results. Some even end up deleting the wrong entries and damaging their computer permanently.
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Computer install to get the desirous software

In today’s computer world no software is the ultimate one. As developer are working deliberately to give the best to the users. Hence, computer install is an essential part, both for beginner and the experts.
For critical software install user can take the help of reputed organization who are offering remote support for installation purpose. But, you must be aware of some general installation procedure so that you don’t have to frequently call them up.
Let’s get acquittal with installation of some important software program on your computer.
Installation for Security software and web browsers
Users can make use of CD/DVD of the latest security software like Windows Defender, Spyware Doctor, No adware and so on. For browser you have plenty of options, you can go for Firefox, Opera, IE 8. If you have the internet connectivity you may go for online download from authentic sites. General steps can be followed as:
STEP 1. Download and save the startup program to a desired location.
STEP 2. Run the setup file and proceed on following the prompts.
STEP 3. Accept the agreement and enter the suitable key words.
STEP 4. Click on “Finish.” Restart your system.
Communication has been revised well with the latest email clients. Programs like email client can be installed internally from the web browser.IE 8 have been designed to automatically launch your default email client.
However, if you have the ambition to install a different email client on your computer, you can change your default client in the browser's Internet Options menu. Proceed as follow:
STEP 1. Explore the Internet Explorer.
STEP 2. Navigate on to the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options."
STEP 3. Select the "Programs" tab.
STEP 4. Click the button "Set Programs." Select "Set Your Default Programs" from the window that appears.
STEP 5. Select your email client from the list of programs on the left side of the screen. Next, click "Choose defaults for this program."
STEP 6. Check the box next to "Mailto" and click "Save."
Hence, you have got your preferred email client installed on your computer. Hope, that the above computer install article would be useful for you.

Computer optimization

Computer optimization can be understood as the vital tonic to boost up the system. It has become the major area of concern for the users. Many computer support firms are making campaign for computer optimization. They are making use of troubleshooting techniques and implantation of third party software to resolve the issue.
I will concentrate this blog to resolve some general issues. Unfortunately you may face issues where your screen freezes and programs stop responding. Even you are unable to close the windows of some application. This is the disgusting situation. The reason behind could be scarcity of RAM, infection of virus or fault in windows registry.
Notice the time of the freezing, in majority of the cases your system will be able to restore the normal condition by default without any attempt. But if the things are not in favor bring out the Task Manager utility with simple keyboard activity: Press the ‘Alt’, ‘Ctrl’ and ‘Del’ buttons all at the same time. You would land to a Window format, now scroll down the program which is causing the error and choose to end the program. Now, again you can start the program and get the normalcy.
Note: Lower value of RAM is the prime reason behind hence to avoid regular repetition you may upgrade the RAM.
However, you may not be lucky every time. If the concern is not addressed with the Task Manager then the root cause may be virus infection or corruption of Windows registry.
If you don’t have any compatible anti-virus, than opt for the best one available in the market. Some trusted names includes, McAfee, Bitdefender, Kaspersky and so on. Before making download, make sure that they are compatible to your windows platform. The role of the anti-virus program is to scan and remove any virus, spyware, malware, keyloggers, rootkits and so on and do the computer optimization.

Many independent software are available for computer optimization which can fix, Error messages, slow performance, slow internet browsing and many more within few minutes. Some of the best are RegCure PC optimizer, XoftspySE.