Hello readers, I hope you had a great weekend. Sorry I didn’t post on Monday, it was my fiancé’s birthday. Someone recently asked me how they could upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista. So here are the instructions on how to do a clean install as well as an upgrade to Windows 7. First off I want to say; as a professional I don’t recommend upgrading to Windows 7. I recommend saving all your... 

Hello readers, I hope you had a great weekend. This post is the last of a five part series on how to do a tune-up, clean, and optimize a computer yourself. In this post I will teach you how to do a registry cleanup and defrag. A Registry Cleanup is very simple. Most people think they would be done cleaning their computer at this point. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Your computer has... 

Hi readers, I hope you had a great week! This post is part 4 on how to tune-up, clean, and optimize your computer on your own. As you may know, having a professional optimize your computer can cost $100-$400. You can save your self tons of dough by taking my advice and following the instructions as provided. The steps I show you are exactly what a professional like me would do to optimize your computer... 

Hello Readers, I hope you had a great day! Today I am making a post on Part 3 in Optimizing your computer on your own. Today’s lesson will show you how to do a disk cleanup. Yes, you have uninstalled some programs and deleted items from your computer. But did you know, even though you deleted or uninstalled items, they are still hanging out on your hard drive? Yes, they are still on your computer... 

Hello readers, I wanted to split up how to clean and optimize your computer in to a series of several parts. I can add more detail on how to do each step this way. This is part 2 on how to tune-up, clean, and optimize your computer. Hard drive space can be very precious. Especially, if you have a small hard drive. Most people think they can uninstall a program and it will be wiped off their computer.... 

Hello readers, I hope you are having a great week. I am making a series of steps on how to optimize your computer. This is the first step you should take in tuning up,optimization, and cleaning your computer. One of the most common problems I see with residential computers is too many programs running in the background. These programs startup when you start your computer. They also stay running in... 

Hello readers, I hope you had a great weekend! I had several jobs on the road today. They were basic tuneup, clean, and optimization jobs on home computers. When most people think of a computer tuneup, clean, or optimization, they think of a disk clean-up followed by a disk defragment and they are done. WRONG. In case you don’t know, you should do the following to your computer regularly. A... 

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removal tool is by far the best virus/trojan removal tool out there for free. You should never run any computer without a good anti-virus program like McAfee or Norton. But even these great anti virus programs let some viruses and trojans slip through. They have a free version and a pay version. This is one of the only virus/trojan removal tools out there that the free version... 

Hello readers, I hope your Friday was great! This is my first post on my adventures of fixing computers on the road. The problem could have been avoided. So I figured it was a perfect post to make as my first entry of my adventures. Today’s adventure on the road brings one to mind today. I made this appointment on Monday and didn’t think much of it at the time. The gentleman said he had... 

Hello readers, I hope you are doing great today! Thanks for reading what will basically be my first real post. Please excuse the constant website changes for the next few days or so until I get the website in order. The website is only 12 hours live or so. Windows 7 due to come out Oct. 22nd 2009 (hope they don’t delay the release date on us), is probably the best operating system to date since...