Advice and Information on Personal Computers

Learn how to maximise your computer's performance, and get the most out of the applications you use. Each week there will be new guides posted here that will provide tips and advice.

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Accelerate your Windows XP

The outcome of each modification will vary to each PC's. I had focused on the XP OS machine regardless of my experience on the individual setup and trouble shooting. Please do not perform any of this modification if you're not sure and please back up your system first before attempting to modify the XP OS system. 1. Disable Unnecessary Services that is install in your system. 2. Defragment Your Pagefile(Harddrive) Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a boost performance...
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Find The Best Computer Hardware

In our age, owning a personal computer is something that most people have the luxury of. In fact, I know several people who have multiple computers in their home and at their office. As the popularity of computers and the internet have grown in the past decade...

PCI-Express vs AGP: Which to Choose?

What is PCI-Express and AGP? There are two ways to connect a graphics card to a motherboard, either via an AGP or PCI Express slot located on your motherboard. A motherboard only supports one of these slots...

Video Cards For Desktop Computers

Purchasing a video card for your desktop should be considered as one of the first performance upgrades you can make to your existing computer. If you bought your computer as a complete unit from a retail outlet, or an online computer store...

6 Steps You Can Take To Speed Up Your Computer's Performance

We live in a fast paced world and we're always looking for the fastest way to get things done. We barely have time to wait for our burger at the local fast food restaurant, our coffee to brew, our microwave popcorn to pop, so who has time to wait around for a slow computer...

Best Computer Buy

Are you looking to buy a computer in the near future? Why are you looking for a new computer, did it break or do you just want a computer with more memory than your old computer...

How To Properly Troubleshoot Video Display Problems

When you have problems with your video display, it can be something as simple as having the brightness turned down to a bad controller on the motherboard. If you have not done, first learn to identify the components of the video display system. When you look inside any open computer...

Custom Gaming Computers: Why Build Your Own?

If you plan on owning a powerful gaming computer to play the latest games on, there's really only one way to go about it. Build your own. Building your own custom gaming computer has many advantages over buying a complete, ready-built PC. It's also very easy to do...

Computer Use And Repetitive Stress Injuries

Repetitive stress injuries have been around for some time but have really come into there own with the dawn of the technology age or computer age. It's been the computer age for awhile now...

Make My Computer Run Faster

Nothing worse than a computer slower than a week in jail, is there? Nothing worse than trying to surf the net or do some work and you have to wait half an hour for a page to load...

Coming Next Week in Personal Computers:
Who Else Wants To Tweak Windows XP For A Faster PC

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