The Weekly Geek

A great big howdy to one and all! I just moved my office back into the dungeon from my living room. During the move I noticed and thus remembered how dirty computers and technology equipment can get just sitting. This reminded me of the “PC Things to do series” I wrote about and has prompted [...]

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Continuing on with the quick things you need to do for your computer, here is my list of monthly suggestions.
Update software programs – check for updates on all programs, even those you “rarly” use. Adobe, Pinnacle, your GPS software. Bad guys use “holes” in these programs to get into and mess up your computer and [...]

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Hello one and all and a great big welcome back to this weeks edition of “The Weekly Geek”. In this weeks fun filled adventure we are going to free up some space on your hard drive by removing old versions of programs and programs that you no longer (if ever) use.
There are two correct ways [...]

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Welcome back once again to this fun filled and exciting edition of The Weekly Geek. This week we will continue in our efforts to maintain your computer by running Scandisk in Windows NT, 2000 and XP. Previously we covered how to do this in Windows 95, 98 and ME (combined referred to as Windows 9x).
If [...]

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In our prior editions of The Weekly Geek we were concentrating on optimizing and cleaning up your PC, after a brief break and delving into viruses, worms and other such nastiness, we are now back into the performance issues of your computer.
As a brief overview, you need to clean your computer and organize its files [...]

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