The residual charge in capacitors can cause boot issues with computers sometimes. You can drain this residual charge by performing the hard reset. The steps to do this are as follows: Turn off your ...

A massive outage related to a security update by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, crippled airlines and other businesses on Friday. By David McCabe and Kate Conger An outage that crippled ...

If you encounter The amount of system memory has changed error when you turn on your Dell or Alienware system, this article ...

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A: It’s possible for SSDs to slow down. The most common cause isn’t age, however, but it is the SSD being too full. Try to keep 20% to 30% of the drive free. Another possible cause of lower ...

Christmas time means packing up your daily troubles, forgetting work for a week, and heading home to… troubleshoot your parents’ broken computers and gadgets? Oh man, is it that time of year again ...

When he was in high school, Josh Geise, a fifth-year computing security student, was involved in the Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment Program. Through the program, Geise became a program ...

My buddy Doug had a problem with his laptop: After putting it to sleep (i.e. into Standby mode), he’d come back awhile later to find it wide awake. There are countless culprits for this kind of ...

Imagine working retail and being switched from one job you know really well to another job you don’t really know how to do. If you saw a problem in your new job that you knew how to fix, would you fix ...

So I have the music machine (2 GHz Athlon) sitting on the floor in the music room. On the 23rd, one of my roomates kicked the Yamaha 24x cd tray while it was open. No one confessed. When I found it, ...