PC Troubleshooting Guide

System Restoration

Did your personal computer or laptop just don’t “act” the way it was before? Did something go wrong, though you are not really sure what, but you hope that it will run correctly like it did yesterday? Sounds almost impossible unless you go to a service center and demand the repairman to bring it back to the way it was, possible, though it will cost so much. Maybe you should tinker with your gadget a little more, so you will discover the relief System Restoration brings. When you use System Restoration, your operating system will be supple enough to go back to a starting point that the user have configured. Because every change that programs and applications go thru, gets recorded in System Restoration.

New Computer that Viruses Love

You got to love that smell of new laptops or computer, straight from the box together with the styrofoam and the bubble plastic that kids love to pop. And you know what else loves your brand new operating system?: Viruses. Once you plug in that brand new computer to connect into the internet, viruses are just waiting for you to get connected and in 30 seconds or less, here comes the internet virus worms faster than any real living earth worm. Who’d want that to their new laptop or personal computer? Nobody, so why don’t you enable your firewall or install anti-virus software.

Manual Back-up for Lucky Windows XP Users

Ray of light must have come to you Windows XP users, cause you do not need to purchase or download softwares that will back-up for your system, because it is already in your system! Just follow the steps made by http://www.toejumper.net/

<>Installing Windows Backup Utility in Windows XP Home Edition:
Insert the Windows XP Installation CD in to your CD drive.
Select “Perform Additional Tasks” from the XP Welcome screen.
Select, “Browse this CD”.
You will now be taken in to Windows Explorer. From here, you will need to double click on the following folders: ValueAdd>> Msft>> Ntbackup.
With the Ntbackup folder open, double click the file titled: Ntbackup.msi
The Windows XP Backup Utility will now be installed on to your Windows Application.

<>Using Windows XP Backup Utility:

To access the Windows XP Backup Utility, go to Start>> All Programs>> Accessories>> System Tools>> Backup.

Defragging Windows Vista (Part 3)

To actually defrag a certain drive, type:

defrag c: -v -r

This option will also give you a detailed report and will defrag all files that are less than 64 MB in size. If you would like to force Vista to attempt to defrag ALL files no matter the size of the fragments, type:

defrag c: -v -w

Again, you will receive a detailed report and with the “-w” this will tell Vista to attempt to consolidate all files wherever possible.

In all cases, you will not receive a report of fragmented files of 64 MB or greater. Also, you still will not receive a progress bar during the defragmentation process. You at least now have greater flexibility over how Windows Vista is defragging your system files.

Defragging Windows Vista (Part 2)

Defragging manually is not possible and you will never know how much have been fragmented. You can manipulate it though. According to http://www.toejumper.net/, you can follow this step to defrag your Vista.
To open a command prompt window, click the Windows button>> All Programs>> Accessories>> Right click the Command Prompt button and select the “Run as administrator” option. A command prompt window will now appear.

To receive information about how defragmented a certain drive is, type:

defrag c: -a -v

The “defrag” lets the system know that you would like to activate the command line defragmentation utility.

The “c:” indicates the hard disk that you would like to work in.

The “-a” indicates that you would like to perform an analysis of the C: drive.

The “-v” indicates that you require a verbose (all possible information) report.

Substitute the “c:” with any other drive that you would like to analyze.

Defragging Windows Vista (Part 1)

Windows XP is way different from Windows Vista (though they may sound the same because of Windows). So if you had a Windows XP, it may take a while to get used to Windows Vista, like you got lost in a city you are known to. But when you are lost, there will always be maps available to get yourself thru the big city. As for you Windows Vista you got this to solve your problems, but particularly, on defragging. Vista system engineers made it sure that your Windows Vista’s hard disks are defragged weekly and automatically to get your system a good clean and run faster.