Fix My Own Computer

A BIOS security password restricts a computer from booting until a correct password is provided. This video demonstrates how to reset this password.

So you just purchased a top of the line computer and you can’t believe how fast it runs. After a few months and a few installed programs the performance of a brand new computer is short lived and you begin to witness performance degradation. This is an all too common problem and it is called computer clutter. It is important to understand what the computer is doing in the background and what you can do to relieve it from running certain programs and services to save resources and strain. Here is a 3 part video that will teach you how to remove unwanted programs and services from running in the background and get your computer back to peak performance.

Cloud computing refers to using the internet (cloud) as the technology for running programs and services. This video will explain in plain English exactly what that is.

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.

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.