Fix My Own Computer

If you’re sharing a computer with more than one person, it is strongly recommended that you have a separate account for all the users. The reason for this is, you have files that you want to keep private, therefore you will limit their access to certain drives or folders and you can also allow or disallow people from installing or uninstalling software. User accounts also allow each individual user to customize their own Windows experience to his or her liking, from screen saver to desktop wall paper, default web browser and much more.

If your a beginner or an intermediate computer user and would like to get a better understanding about many aspects of a computer and computing then this 24 part videos training series is a good place to start.

Here is an animated documentary video explaining the history of the internet - from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

This Discovery Channel documentary video will take you on a journey and expose hacking from its incubation to the present day. No one is SAFE, Watch this Video.

In this video, we’ll show you how you can speed up your computer using CCleaner. CCleaner is a free and powerful program that removes temporary files from your computer - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. It also includes a registry scan utility which can be used to restore lost performance or fix annoying error messages that are generated from a corrupt registry.

This is an easy to follow video tutorial that will teach you how to take your existing Windows computer and configure it to be a web server, using a Microsoft technology called IIS, short for Internet Information Service.

As a follow up to the previous post, here’s a very entertaining and modern lecture about the inner workings of a computer, created as an introduction to computing for first year computer science and engineering students at UNSW.

Even though computing technology has improved drastically over the last 2 decades, the basic foundation is still the same - CPU, Motherboard, Hard Drive, RAM, Power Supply and Video Card, etc…. Here’s a video from the 90′ released by the Computer Museum, that will make you feel like your watching the Magic School Bus, which takes an interesting and a funny look at how the workings of a 1990’s computer.

In light of the new presidency, here are a few COOL video tutorials uncovering some of Windows XP tricks, hacks and secrets. These tutorials are usually safe and should not harm your computer.

Every time you download or install a new game, application, or software update, you make changes to your computer. Sometimes that change may make your system unstable and even cause the dreaded BSOD, aka Blue Screen of Death. Windows XP and Vista come with a handy feature that allows you to go back in time to the working state of your computer prior to the change. This feature is called Restore Point, and should be used as the first step in troubleshooting Windows is not booting up.