Alabama Computer Repair: Why do my friends have defective computer and I'm the one
sitting at home fixing them while they are out on the town?
To be reasonable the wife is out today evening time so I'm
watching the children / fixing pc's so I'm not as mad as you first thought.
In any case I thought I would make good utilization of this
time now the children are in bed to talk about the simple fixes that you can do
yourself and safe a fortune in repair bills.
Firstly I fixed over two hundreds computers a year ago and
98 percent of these issues were spy-ware and viruses that any home user could
fix with a few of pointers.
Some of the people who owned there PC's thought there
computers were getting slower as they were getting older, this is because the
poor execution came on gradually and the computer owners did not know what to
look out for.
One of the most serious issues is spyware, people
automatically think spyware is visa card theft or to steal your name and
address from your computer, although this can be the case, this entirely
uncommon in comparison to marketing companies - Alabama Computer Repair.
Let me clarify, numerous websites offer free chartroom or
games add-ons and numerous more free programs that people think they need to
download, problem is that people never read the small print, and in the small
print there is text somewhere telling you that your web searching propensities
are logged and sent to a third party.
This is so that marketing companies can sell this info to
retail companies, and they build insights that can tell that town A are
searching for designer shoes or Town B is looking for cookers and fridges, this
is huge business but a real pain to you.
Think about it, is you have four or five programs sending
your online searching propensities somewhere, this is utilizing your broadband
bandwidth which means less for you, think about it you pay for it and companies
are hijacking it from directly in front of you.
So what
do you do about it?
This is where your absence of experience shows through,
chances are your computer came with virus-ware and security spyware programs
pre-installed with a trial period that you ended up purchasing or you installed
a free anti virus product, ring any bells.
One major thing you don't ever do is to install 2 ant virus
programs on the same computer as the both try to scan your files at the same
time causing your computer to very nearly stop or run at a snails pace.
The next thing you need to check is your running procedures,
to do this press "Ctrl" and "Alt" and "Delete"
keys at the same time, a window will popup, this is called your task manager,
click on the procedures tab, then tick the box at the bottom "Show
processes from all users".
Now comes the fun part, you need to take the file name under
the "Image Name" column and type it into your favorite search engine
this will tell you if you have any suspicious programs running on your
computer, write down the name of any issue files, then type the file name into
your search engine of choice followed by forum and remove (Alabama Computer Repair).