How to troubleshoot a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

Blue screens of death can be really difficult to deal with. Most of the time, the BSOD will show a file name, a line with very little information and some numbers that, most of the time, won't help you. Today i will show you how to analyze a minidump file which gives you a lot more information about the blue screen so that you can get on the bottom of it.

PC crashing troubleshooting tips

One of the worst things that can happen to a computer is constant crashing. The most feared crash is the so called Blue Screen of Death or simply BSOD. Other times a computer simply turns off with no indication of what happened. There you have two choices, take your PC to specialist or attempt to fix it yourself.

How to get the classic START menu in Windows 7

People that are used to work with Windows XP often ask me how to get the classic start menu back in Windows 7. Microsoft removed the option to select the classic start menu in the Properties so we need to install some software to get it back.

Windows 7 Performance tweaks

Windows 7 is my favorite operating system of all time. I still remember when Vista came out, i had the chance to try it out and immediately realized, it's not for me. It was slow, the HDD was constantly working at it's peak so i decided to stick with Windows XP. Quite the opposite happened when Windows 7 came out and now i know that i will never have to look back at Windows XP, just because 7 is so good. But today, we are not talking about that. Sometimes i have to work with very slow PC's and i have to make them faster just so i can finish a job in time so let's look at some ways to tweak a Win 7 for performance.

Automatically shutdown your PC after X minutes

Sometimes you might need to turn off your PC after, let's say, 30 minutes, because you are downloading something, but you don't have the time to wait for it to complete. Here is a quick guide on how to turn off your PC after an allotted time without using any special software.

Oiling PC fans

In this post we looked at how to reduce high temperature of your PC components and now it's time to look at what you can do to reduce the noise that your PC outputs.

How to reduce high PC temperature

Last time we saw how to check your PC components temperature so now it's time to learn what you can do to reduce the temperature of your PC. Let's just dive right in to and take a look at what can be done.