Fix My Own Computer

How To: Install RAM

Author — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:50:27 +0000

The video below shows you how to Install RAM quickly and easily.

How to reset or crack the BIOS password

Author — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:40:38 +0000

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

How to Speed up your Computer in 5 minutes

Author — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:16:38 +0000

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.

What is Cloud Computing

Author — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:38:12 +0000

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.

How To Create A New User Account in Windows XP

Author — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:18:03 +0000

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.

Computer Training: Learn about the Computer, Windows and much More (24 parts)

Author — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:30:45 +0000

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.

Part 1: Introduction to understanding your computer

Part 2: Introduction to Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Part 3: Introduction to File Systems

Part 4: What Defragging and How to use it

Part 5: Introduction to File Compression and Windows Installer

Part 6: Introduction to The Internet (part 1)

Part 7: Introduction to The Internet (part 2)

Part 8: Updating Windows with Windows Update

Part 9: Surfing the web with Internet Explorer and Firefox

Part 10: Introduction to Phishing and Phishing attempts

Part 11: Introduction to Spyware (part 1)

Part 12: Introduction to Spyware (part 2)

Part 13: Introduction to Antivirus (part 1)

Part 14: Antivirus (part 2)

Part 15: Antivirus (part3)

Part 16: Introduction to Hardware (part 1)

Part 17: Hardware (part 2)

Part 18: Introduction to Processes, what are they and how to Manage them

Part 19: Introduction to Services

Part 20: Introduction to StartPro, an application to manage startup programs.

Part 21: Introduction to System Properties and Virtual Memory

Part 22: Introduction to different themes and looks

Part 23: Introduction to System Restore and Disk Cleanup

Part 24: Working with Temporary Files and Screen Capture

The History of the Internet

Author — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:30:05 +0000

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

The History Of Hacking Documentry Video

Author — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:50 +0000

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.

Speed up your computer With CCleaner

Author — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:02:29 +0000

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.

Host your own Website for Free using Windows

Author — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:04:59 +0000

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.