Bluemind Is an Ultra-Lightweight Mind Mapping Application. The Basic Guide to Troubleshooting Common Windows PC Problems. This is a fantastic list, even for the experienced.
Often times when troubleshooting - I'll be the first to admit it, I forget the basics. My only addition is for viruses: there is no such thing as overkill when cleaning. My preferred method is this, when noticing a system is seriously infected: 1.) Remove the hard drive from the system and place it as a slave on a "lab" PC that boots from a USB drive 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) It's excessive, but there's some nasty crap out there today. The best way to avoid virii? Just sayin' ProEject Disconnects USB Drives Cleanly and Safely. Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks. How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer. HOLY CRAP.
Windows CDs are possibly the most dangerous things a person could get their hands on. I work in a computer repair shop and a good percentage of the system problems we have are caused by morons that installed Windows OVER their recovery partition (I mean, yes, into an ~8gb partition, with their original Windows inactive in the big 150gb partition next to it that they're unaware of), or tried "repairing" it with an old XP Pro Corp CD they had laying around. And here, this article is saying to just "run it, erase partitions, let it do its thing"?! Without any regard to what type (home/pro, oem/retail) the disc is? Or even DRIVERS? Rule of thumb: ALL SYSTEMS have a recovery partition, with few exceptions. But to tell people to just grab a Windows CD?
Turn Your Spare Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives. Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick. Platform and Suite Support. Many of the most common issues that arise when using PortableApps.com Platform and PortableApps.com Suite are addressed here.
Please read through the various topics to see if any of them address your question. You can also post a question to one of the forums for the apps within the suite. << Return to the PortableApps.com Platform and Suite homepage PortableApps.com Platform and Suite Issues Installing the PortableApps.com Platform or Suite To install the PortableApps.com Platform or Suite, just download the installer for the version you'd like from the PortableApps.com Platform and Suite homepage and run it. Using the PortableApps.com Platform To start up the PortableApps.com Platform, just double-click StartPortableApps.exe in the root of your portable drive. When using any portable software, here are a couple tips: Adding PortableApps.com Format Apps to the PortableApps.com Menu The PortableApps.com Menu can automatically add apps in PortableApps.com Format.
Running an App As Admin. USB Flash Drive Comparison part 2 – FAT32 vs NTFS vs ExFAT. Ok, a little while back I ran a somewhat large USB Flash Drive Comparison with 21 drives compared, today I got part two of that comparison.
I’ve taken the 8gig and 4 gig drives, nine in total, and formatted them FAT32, NTFS and ExFAT and ran all of the tests over again for a comparison of how the file systems work on the drives. And yes I truly ran all of the tests over again, I recently upgraded to SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP2, so I needed to re-do all of those tests as well. I’ve been at this for quite some time now, and I’ve got a whole lot of information for you inside.
The reason for this is out of my curiosity and other people mentioned as well why not compare the file systems, so to satiate my curiosity and to give everyone as much information as possible I took a very large chunk of my time and dedicated it to this rather large article. So sit back, relax and continue on, I’ve got tons of graphs for you all broken down and separated by file systems and tests. The drives are: Next is NTFS: Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod)