5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats - Download Squad. Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools. Windows Reinstall - Simple, Easy and Quick. Windows Reinstall - Simple, Easy and Quick Categories: Open Source , DIY , Windows , System Administration , HowTo , From the Files of DCOT... , Support Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 by Tim Fehlman Every few months, I like to completely blow away my Windows system and reinstall it. This is primarily because I install so much junk on the system that it just starts to clog everything up. A freshly installed copy of Windows always runs so much quicker and has that “new OS smell”! I firmly believe that more people would do the same if it wasn’t such a pain to do! Most people figure that you simply need to set aside a full day to do the job right. So, I’ve put together a two part checklist of things that you should do before and after you completely reformat your system to start over.
Before You Reformat Move all of your data off the computer and put it on a different system or drive. After You Reformat Well, you’ve reformatted your disk so there is no turning back. HELP! My computer's full of spyware! - Lifehacker. Dear Lifehacker, I have spyware all over my computer and I can't access a lot of web sites along with other things. Like, I went to click on your spyware cleaners link and lo and behold it sent me to this website [evil browser hijacking link deleted.]
I don't know what to do and I need to use my computer the way I used to. Please help me I'll forever be indebted to you. Signed, Missing my Computer Dear Missing, Wow. You'll have to download cleaning software. Those are the first essential steps to reclaiming your computer. Love, Lifehacker. Put GeekSquad Out of Business remote vnc. Whenever there is a computer problem in my family or circle of friends, I'm the first person they call. It's kinda like what Jay-Z describes as the gift and the curse. I'm gifted to know all of this computer stuff, but I'm cursed to spend the rest of my life doing tech support for everyone.
The problem was that it was hard to get people to click on the right things to diagnose the problem over the phone. I spent a lot of time just figuring out basic informaton about their setup before I could actually fix the problem for them. I wanted a way that I could just remote desktop into their computer and while on the phone with them find and fix the problem, and explain what I'm doing at the same time, so that they understand and can fix it themselves the next time.
Up until recently there were two ways to do this. Here is the best (free) way to do the same thing that GoToAssist charges hundreds for... There is a program called UltraVNC which is a great remote desktop program.