TIPS TO TROUBLESHOOT YOUR COMPUTER Youve had a couple of issues with your computer lately, and dont know what to do next. Its gotten to the point that its annoying, but youre loathe to spend the time and expense of having a tech guy come and fix the problem. Try these quick fixes for some common problems before installing that fixmyPC program from the Internet or carting your system down to the repair depot. At the very least youll eliminate a few frustrations in your digital life, and thats a good thing, right? Theres a whole bunch of icons on my desktop, and I dont know what to do with them. Simple: Remove the crap and bloatware from your PC. Trust me on this. You dont need every program that comes with your PC, particularly if you bought it from a big box store. While any program you use should be kept, there are likely a half dozen more that you dont need. If there are three ebook readers on your PC, uninstall the two you dont need. Likewise, remove the video streaming services you dont use and games you dont play. At the very least, these programs are taking up space on your hard drive; at worst they will slow your system down when they look for updates. The Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. Youll see this issue eventually on systems that have a lot of programs that youve installed and uninstalled. Your Windows systems graphics drivers are either corrupted, or some program isnt quite compatible with the driver you are using now. The solution is to update your display driver. Simply go into Windows Update and look for Graphics Driver under optional hardware updates. Go ahead and update your driver. If youre more tech savvy, go to the website for your graphics card ((Nvidia GeForce), (Intel) or (AMD Radeon)), and install the correct driver for your graphics card. It takes forever to load a program or it crashes once you do. For the programs you do use, check to see if there are updates. These will either be found in the programs help section, or if its a program you got from the Windows or Mac App store, check there for updates. Updated software is likely to have bugs fixed, bugs that may slow your PC or Mac down with a memory leak, or an inefficiency that has come to light after the last update. Besides, updated software often comes with new features that make the program better than when you first downloaded it.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:03:54 +0000
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