Archive for 'System Repair'
Fixing the XP SP3 reboot blues
What can I say? For me, XP SP3 was the cat’s meow, the best Windows client operating system ever. But, for other people ‘upgrading’ to XP SP 3 is like being fed to a roaring lion.
They’re seeing endless, and I mean endless-reboots. Many can’t even escape to the relative safety of Windows’ Safe mode much [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2008 under Desktop, Operating System, System Repair, Windows.
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Deep, down and dirty PC repair
Sometimes, no matter how much you try to protect your computer, you need to get down and dirty with the hardware. Sometimes it’s the obvious. I never cease to be amazed at how many PC problems turn out to be loose cables or-the shame of it all!-an unplugged electrical cord. But, others times, it will [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Applications, Desktop, Linux, System Repair.
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The best Linux system repair disk graduates to 1.0
If you need to repair PCs, even if you don’t use Linux as a rule, you should have a Linux repair CD. These self-booting Linux distributions give you all the software tools you need to bring all but the deadest computers back to life. The best of these distributions is, hands-down, SystemRescueCd.
I’ve been using SystemRescueCd [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 under Apple, Applications, Desktop, Linux, System Repair.
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