What You Should Do In Case Of A Hard Drive Failure Post By Thomas Husnik

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What is the worst thing which can happen to someone who is working a lot on computers and does not usually back-up their data? The worst thing is a hard drive crash. That’s why you should always do some back-ups from time to time so you don’t have to pay a lot of money to recover your data.

In some cases you could recover the data yourself, that case is called a logical crash. If that happens it means that the hard drive wasn’t physically damaged. The only problem is that it has bad sectors or a virus damaged the sectors. If your hard drive is still recognized by the BIOS then it means it is a logical failure. All you will need to recover your data is software. In this case you are lucky and you should prevent a next time.

If the problem is a physical crash it can be bad. If you have bad luck, you will not be able to recover the data at all. There are two types of physical crash, mechanical or electric. If the hard drive failed because of a mechanical part, it will need replacing to be able to recover the data, if it is electric the part damaged will need to be replaced to recover the data. This can only be done with special equipment and in special labs. You can’t do it yourself.

The worst physical crash is a head crash. This means that the read and write head touches the magnetic part and destroys it. The data stored on the magnetic area, which was damaged by the head cannot be recovered and is lost forever. So if your hard drive crashes just turn off your computer, don’t do a thing if a head crash is happening then turning it on and leaving it on too much time might damage a bigger area of the magnet.

The most important thing is, if something happens to your hard drive and the computer shows blue screens or makes weird sounds, to turn off the computer, pick up the phone and call a data recovery company or a specialist who can tell you what happened. This way you can lower the loss, but the best way to prevent all this is to back-up your data from time to time!

When a hard drive crash happens, it can get really nasty. Find out more about hard drive crash data recovery and laptop hard drive crash.



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Some "Free Stuff" Still Survives Online by Jim Edwards

Way back in the good old days of the Internet (mid to late
'Nineties), you could find all sorts of free "stuff"
online.

Everything from website hosting and email, to software and
long distance phone calls came free of charge.

Some of the free services survived, while others used their
venture capital to pay for the mansions and yachts of their
CEO's and then closed up shop within a few months - leaving
investors high and dry.

A few free services still exist on the 'Net in today's more
realistic dot-com economy and today rates as good time as
any to take a closer look.


** Free Email **

Log on to HotMail.com and get yourself a free email account
you can access from anywhere on the planet you can find an
Internet connection.

HotMail.com and http://mail.yahoo.com/ (with twice the free
storage space of HotMail) rate as two of the most
successful and long-lived no cost services left over from
the "free" glory days of a few years ago.


** Free File Storage **

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/ still ranks as the number 1 free
remote file storage service on the Internet.

Store up to 30 MB of files remotely for access and sharing
from any Internet connection anywhere in the world.

Instead of lugging floppy disks around between office,
home, and laptop, you can store them online in your own
password-protected briefcase on the Yahoo high-speed
servers.

A great way to back up and share files worldwide.


** Free Website Hosting **

Tripod.com allows you to set up your own website absolutely
free.

They support their service with third party banner ads at
the top of every page you display.

A great way to get started, but any serious entrepreneur
will eventually want to get their own low-cost hosting
account costing as little as $5 a month.

DotEasy.com presents an excellent alternative to Tripod.com
if you want your own domain name and a year's hosting for
only $25 a year.

Other free hosting services include: GeoCities.com,
gurlpages.com, and myfamily.com.


** Free Software **

Freeware and shareware, two ways software developers
distribute their creations, either in a "try before you
buy" mode, or as truly free software.

Many developers around the world create software for their
own personal use but, lacking a huge buying market or the
skills to sell the software, some of them just give it away
or sell it for a nominal fee after you try it.

If you know where to look, you can get everything from
graphics programs and website builders, to FTP programs and
recipe books.

Log on to Download.com and Zdnet.com for two of the most
popular places online to find software before paying full
retail.

NOTE: make sure your anti-virus program is up-to-date and
backup all your important files before installing any
software.

Free stuff online will never disappear because, when
appropriate, it represents the perfect way to start and
develop a relationship with customers. Unfortunately, the
"boom" days of the truly free online "lunch" seem gone
forever. Sigh. How to receive electronics, computers FREE! Click Here

Get Valuable Computer Based Training Online - FREE! by Jim Edwards

Educating yourself about computers and software programs
represents a very expensive proposition in both time and
money.

Anyone who has ever seen those Video Professor
advertisements on TV knows that a simple tutorial on CD-Rom
costs $59 plus shipping and handling. Most people don't
realize computer and software training is readily available
online, some of it as good or better than the introductory
courses that can cost you a lot of money.

Would you like to learn how to set up a web page? Do you
want to learn how to use your word processor for
accomplishing more than just typing simple letters? How
about learning to use all the great "secret" features in
your email program?

Log on to http://www.findtutorials.com/ to find yourself in
a world of learning about things that really interest you!
Many of the tutorials listed come free of charge since the
sites hosting the classes contain the usual advertising
most of us have come to expect online.

Some categories have more available classes than others,
but the site rates a serious look and even a bookmark so
you can check back for new jewels of knowledge on a regular
basis. Check here first before spending money on training,
especially for introductory and general information
instruction.

The following sites also offer free online training,
however, understand that many of them use the introductory
courses as a lead in to get you to purchase additional
books, classes or other advanced instruction.

http://www.computertim.com/
Offers an extensive collection
of articles to help you learn how to operate various
Microsoft Office programs more efficiently, including:
Windows, Word, Outlook, Excel, and FrontPage.

http://www.lgta.org/
Land-Grant Training Alliance - teaches
you how to use various software packages online and even
has an interesting tutorial on how to use the Internet as a
teaching tool to help others.

http://www.trainingtools.com/
Offers a variety of introductory training courses for
software packages dealing primarily with website creation,
installing scripts and making your website do cool things!

http://www.learnthat.com/courses/
Offers a variety of courses on everything from computer
training and software packages to even dealing with some
hardware issues and how to purchase the right digital
camera.

http://freestats.elosoft.com
Offers a wide selection of links to other sites that offer
online instruction, books, classes and other learning
resources. Looks like an excellent place to start your
search for additional information when you need instruction
or help.
Your PC Guide

Free Software Quickly Eliminates Time Wasting Tasks by Jim Edwards

Ever find yourself typing the same things over and over on
your computer?

Maybe you type the same blocks of text into your email
messages thirty times a day.

Or maybe you find it hard to remember a long website
address and never seem to get all the characters correct
when you type it into your web browser's address bar.

Not too long ago, I came to the startling realization that
I spent over 45 minutes every single day just on completing
repetitive email tasks.

Bottom line: that amounts to over 273 hours a year doing
the same things over and over again - talk about a waste of
time!

Much to my delight, I recently discovered a free software
program anyone can use that instantly gave me back almost
all of that wasted time!

With email, I found myself answering the same questions
repeatedly.

I spent way too much time retyping or hunting down the
answer so I could copy and paste it into my reply.

On the surface, a task that takes only 30 seconds to
complete might not seem like a time waster, but if you
perform that task 100 times throughout the day you will
chew up almost an hour on repetitive activity.

What if you could reduce that time by 90% or more?

What if you could claim that time back and use it for
other, more important things?

Well now you can because a free software program called
"ShortKeys" helps you reclaim the time you waste on most
repetitive typing tasks.

Log on to www.shortkeys.com/lite.htm and download the free
version of the program, which offers all the features most
of us will ever likely need or use.

"ShortKeys" is a macro utility, which means it performs
repetitive tasks for you.

In this case, it allows you to set up replacement text or
paragraphs for any given number of keystroke combinations
you can define.

For example, I set mine up so whenever I type #7faq into an
email message, the program automatically inserts six
paragraphs with the most frequently asked questions I get
from people surfing my www.7dayebook.com site.

The program quietly monitors your typing activity and, any
time you type in a pre-defined keystroke combination, the
program will automatically insert the replacement text.

You can use the program with email, word processing, web
browser, and even with your web page editor.

You simply choose a word and associate it with the
replacement text. ShortKeys will then insert virtually
anything you could type, including: simple sentences;
extremely long web addresses; single paragraphs; even
several paragraphs up to 3000 characters long.

Not only do you save time by not manually typing in the
sentence or paragraphs, but you will greatly reduce the
inevitable errors and typo's all of us make.

I don't normally get this excited about a free piece of
software, but if you ever find yourself typing the same
text over and over, get a copy of this program and start
using it!
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Laptop LCD Screen Repair and Replacement

Replacing a Broken LCD

The average cost of a laptop is somewhere around $900.00 these days. Some are much more than that and some are less of course. So if you drop your laptop and break the screen, an unfortunate accident that I'm sure you know of someone it's happened to, the assumption is often that it's time to buy a new laptop. But this doesn't have to be the case. LCD displays are one of the more delicate components of a laptop computer and in the past most expensive, but prices have been dropping and now the average replacement cost for an LCD is in the $300 to $450 range -- that's a whole lot cheaper than $900.00 it costs to buy a completely new laptop.

But where can you buy these replacement LCD panels. Well once you now exactly what your LCD screen is. E bay is a good place I have got them for as little as $50.00.Or you can go to your manufacture company.Also at the manufacture company they will have step by step instructions in how replace your LCD screen your self. Such as this one from Dell™ Latitude™ 120L Service Manual http://support.dell.com . Here is a another example how to remove your LCD screen a little more detailed http://www.sparepartswarehouse.com You can save your a lot of money just doing it your self.By Thomas Husnik Here is a link that got me started in laptop repair Link

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How to Make My Computer Run Faster With 3 Simple Steps

Is your computer running too slow for you? Are you finding that it takes a long time to boot up, whereas before it was quick as a rabbit? Are you wondering, "How to make my computer run faster ?"If your computer is running at turtle speed, you have come to the right place. In this article, we will outline three simple steps that you follow to make your computer run faster and more efficiently for your needs.

Step #1 - Maintain Your Computer Are you ready to get started? Great! The first thing you need to think about is the amount of websites that you visit on a daily basis. Did you know that with each website that you visit, you are literally downloading some of these files in efforts to make your computer load them faster the next time you want to access that same website? You are also downloading cookies from websites and saving a history of each site you visit.

All of these can dramatically affect your computer's speed and slow it down if you do not do something about it. So, to get rid of these things, you should make sure to clean it out. You can do this by making sure that you delete temporary files, browsing history, cookies, and empty out the recycle bin on your computer. This should be done regularly, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. In fact, some people perform this maintenance daily.

Step #2 - Get Rid Of What You Don't Need

If you have too many programs on your computer, this could really put a damper on its speed. The first thing you need to do is delete any programs that you do not use. This can free up space and free up some speed. At the same time, you need to take a look at the items running on your computer at all times. These things, especially if unneeded, could have a major affect on the speed of your computer.

Therefore, you want to prevent unneeded programs from booting with your computer and running in the background. The safest way to do this is to go into the program options and find a box that says "run at startup" or something similar and uncheck the box. There are other ways, but if you do not know the necessary programs that must run on your computer, it is not a good idea to go those routes.

Step #3 - Clean Out Your Registry

This is something that you will want to download a program for. Cleaning out your registry is not something that you want to do yourself. Your registry is basically the hub of your computer, one wrong move and it could render your computer completely useless. However, cleaning out the registry is a big step, one which must be done because it too can affect the speed of your computer. Left over files, errors, or deleted programs can still remain in the registry.

Registry cleaner downloads are available, download and scan your computer. After the scan, let the registry cleaner make the proper corrections.

Now that we've answered the question of "How to make my computer run faster ," it is time to get started. Once you take these steps you will notice that using your computer for the internet, programs, or anything will be much faster and easier. by Logan Albright Here is a Registry cleaner program that's pretty good go to : regtool.com