January 4, 2012
One of the things that I find myself doing much more often since diving into IT is monitoring and checking the status of services running on computers that are running across the company. There is the standard way of managing services which most people use because it’s well-known and fairly easy. But what about another way?
December 16, 2011
When computers work well, things are pretty cool. Every component of your PC just….works. But when you get one of those nasty little downloads – one of those little scripts or apps that dig its way deep down into the heart of your computer – it can be unnerving. Luckily, there is a new tool you can use to manually go through and clean up those evil processes.
December 1, 2011
Today’s computers have hardware that do some pretty astounding work. This is especially true when comparing today’s hardware with the hardware from 5+ years back. However, today’s workloads have also been increased alongside the power increase of hardware. In that respect, people have been trying to find ways to make applications run more efficiently on their machines in order to get maximum performance.
November 18, 2010
What is your computer doing in there? On the exterior it is a mass of plastics and metals, roughly pressed together to provide your PC with a protective case. But is it protecting your PC from the outside, or is it protecting you from the strange and arcane things happening inside your PC? Perhaps it [...]
September 24, 2010
Windows Task Manager has evolved into a reasonably good utility. It offers a lot of information about what your computer is doing at any particular moment; the programs running, the load on the processor, and network activity are displayed. There are limits to what Windows Task Manager can do for you however. If you’re interested [...]
February 23, 2010
Although there are plenty of free software floating around on the web, not all freeware are created equal. There is such a large disparity in quality between freeware from different companies that sometimes we must turn towards established, trusted companies, if just to make sure the software comes from a credible source. Although Microsoft isn’t [...]
November 16, 2009
Now that I have your attention, I can tell you that there are a few things that you have to do first, before you can learn how to speed up your computer with that one double-click. When those things are done, though, it will always be a simple double click to speed up your computer. [...]
July 29, 2009
I have been using the Windows hot key combination to kill a running program for a really long time now. For those of you who do not know it is Alt-F4. This will politely request that the open application on your screen is to close. If you have unsaved work, the program might ask you [...]
March 7, 2009
Process Management is at the heart of any modern operating system. While most of the modern operating systems do a really good job of doing so, sometimes you may want to take the matter into your own hands or you may just want to know what is going on in your own system. Windows Task [...]
December 31, 2008
Yesterday I gave you a sneak peek into my Mark Pack which is my collection of indispensible software apps that I always have installed on the computer. But it was too much for one post so here is Part Two of “what Mark always has installed and what he recommends you install too” So, tally [...]
