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Monday, May 7, 2012

PC Doctor tips : Remember things while purchasing antivirus software


PC Doctor Tips  

The Internet has changed the whole world drastically today. It has made the whole world a small village now. Today you can find information about any subject or any topic very easily with very faster speed and accurately. Regrettably the Internet is not completely protected due to the presence of different kinds of malicious programs that are spread across the world wide. This is why we require some security software which can protect you from these malicious programs and ensure the integrity and security of your valuable data and personal information. 

The software which can protect you from various kinds of online attacks is known as antivirus software. It is specifically designed to scan, detect, kill and protect you from any kind of virus, spyware, Trojan, worm and different other malwares. In absence of effective antivirus software your system can get infected any point of time often without your notice. Thus the importance of such security software becomes high. 

Before installing any antivirus software you must know about the different possible options available online. There are plentiful of the options available and choice is quite difficult among them. Here are some suggestions how to choose the best:

Compare features of the software

Features are the basis that can be of great help for us while choosing the best suitable antivirus program for our computer. In how many folds the antivirus providing you the security that really matters. There are many such packages that are mainly meant for enterprises so for a single PC there are not relevant much. So by comparing the various features you can choose the best for your computer.

Compare price of antivirus programs

Price is again a main aspect of any product. If price is too high we can avoid such program. Sometime it is also possible that you may get software free better than the paid one. There is much such freeware software that is very effective and safe.



Scanner capability

Scanner capability is another important aspect regarding a good antivirus program. Reliable antivirus software will scan all areas of your computer including memory, hard drive, and registry and so on. Choose the program which is capable enough to scan everywhere and can produce the best result.

User’s views or online reviews

In the end the user’s views are very important and this is one of the best methods to choose any software program. After all it is a user who uses and decides what the best for your need is. You may find thousands of online surveys and users’ views that really can help you to find out the best and suitable software for your requirement.
In the end the best antivirus will help you to speed up your computer and protects your system from all possible threats.

Friday, May 4, 2012

The most popular software nowadays

Today’s date is all about different kinds of software. Earlier people only used to think about an operating system and some other essential application software such as word processor, spreadsheet, and paint brush and so on.  Most of the software used to be included with your OS. In the recent 15 years the things have drastically been changed and today you may find for a single task there are dozens of software available. Apart from this today lots of software or gadgets are available for mobile phones as well. In this article we only will be covering the most popular software in today’s date for your computer.

Wordpress

WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform, used by a amazing 202 million websites. It is very simple to learn and work with; WordPress is maintained and assisted by a wide range of plug-in which can be used to convert a standard blog into an amazing WebPages as well. 

WordPress can also be used as a simple content management system to control whatever thing from online shops using WordPress e-commerce themes, online magazine using a WordPress magazine theme to portfolios using WordPress portfolio themes. Due to its simplicity and powerful features it has really become very popular.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browsers for last 10 years among all the Internet users. Firefox at present accounts for 24.43% of the recorded usage share of web browsers, but this figure is going up. Already the browser of choice for most web users and developers, Firefox’s reputation is growing thanks to its huge selection of third party plug ins and add-ons, which let users modify their browsing environment down to the finest level.

Google Chrome

Google is a giant for the internet technology and the biggest search engine. It has become a kind of synonyms for the word Internet. 3 years back it has launched the Google chrome which has also become very popular by all means. Pacing mainly with Mozilla Firefox since it was developed and launched now seems outperforming Firefox gradually.

FileZilla

In the series of FTP client FileZilla is a enormously successful, it is a cross-platform FTP client. Now It is also accessible as a server, for Windows systems only. It was basically created in January 2001 by Tim Klosse as a class project; it has become very popular gradually and is being used by millions of users today.

Mbam or Malwarebyte

Mbam or malwarebyte is an anti malware and anti spyware security tool. It helps you to clean your PC and helps to speed up your PC to a great extent. Among all the other available security software mbam has really achieved great public praise due to its efficiency and scanner capacity.

In the last section we had told about 5 most popular software nowadays. Now we will discuss few more software those are equally popular among users and they are immensely helpful for PC users.

Pidgin

Pidgin is a freebie, and it is using as a free instant messaging tool. It provides you with one window through which you can at the same time contact with different people, any instant messaging platform they use.

Notepad++

Very resemble with windows notepad the Notepad++ is very reliable, customizable, intuitive and freeware.  Notepad++ is the most popular Windows-based CSS editor today. It includes everything: syntax highlighting; folding and auto-completion for CSS, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XML and PHP; multi-file viewing; tabbed editing; zoom in and zoom out.

7-Zip

For data zipping or compression techniques there are many tools available today. 7-Zip is an tremendously admired file archiver for Windows systems, which is a free software and available online, made Winzip out of the race now. It can unpack the bulk of archive formats and can generate TAR and GZ archives, usually it is UNIX and Linux systems based utility, as well as its own 7z format.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a free OS for Linux that’s fast and trouble-free to use. It is said that it has been named after an African philosophy of community, sharing and generosity. It is assessed that about 50% users are using Ubuntu in their systems. Due to its rapid popularity now the software is available with OpenOffice, Firefox Empathy, Pidgin, and other tools pre-installed.

Skype

Skype is one of the most popular software today which is being used for making calls across the world. With a Voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) program based software has become very popular due to its features and freeware availability. The possibility of making free calls all over the globe has influenced millions of people to install the software; the ease of use and surprising voice quality have earned a great public praise.

VLC player

One of the greatest multimedia and music software, VLC has become very popular due to it amazing features. VLC can play almost all kinds of file format and due to its high playing capacity and sound quality it has outperformed windows media player.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

How does your PC run slow?


 
Are you experiencing a slow PC issue consistently with your PC? Do you know what did your PC run slow? Was it much faster in the beginning when you bought your system? This is a very common concern from almost all PC users nowadays. Most of the time we may start using PC Cleaner software and other PC repair tool to fix our systems even sometime without knowing what is the actual cause of your slow computer. 
 
Very precisely there could be indefinite numbers of causes behind making a PC slow. It could be just because of your poor hardware configuration or low random access memory or it also can be possible due to presence of different viruses in your machine. 

As I said above the number of causes of a slow computer are several but just a single cause can make your computer run slow. Also remember users often try using a single PC Cleaner program for all kinds of PC issues. Also note that all the PC issues do affect your computer’s performance in many ways. We will focus on the most important points that usually affect your computer’s speed and performance.

Corrupt windows registry is one of the most important factors that can make your PC run slow and can create many other PC related issues. The windows registry can be corrupt due to many reasons such as when you uninstall or reinstall the any software program it affects your registry. Over time these all operations make your registry corrupt or fragmented. These corrupt items in the registry make your system corrupt also and you may experience the slow pc performance. For removing these items you can use good and reliable registry fix software which can clean all such malicious or bad data from your computer.

Another important reason of losing performance is bad hardware components and low memory. Hardware components are the basic requirement for your system and you cannot speed up your PC in absence of good hardware components. The same goes with the random access memory which helps to load the program into memory and then they get executed. So both of the things should be fine and in working state.

Another essential task or thing to check regarding the poor performance of your computer is the presence computer infections. A virus, spyware and much other malware software can cause your system run slow. Use the up to date antivirus program which can remove all kinds of viruses you’re your PC and can also protect it completely.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

How to maintain your PC performance consistently


You might have heard and read so many advices regarding maintaining your PC performance and how to speed up your PC performance. However most of them are either do not help or are very complicated to perform or they might ask you to buy a PCcleaner or registry fix software. I also notice that in most of the cases the intention behind advising any PC fix is to sell the software. This is why I have tried to specify few very important steps or precautions in order to maintain your PC performance or to speedup your computer.

Use up to date antivirus program

Ant virus software is very much required for protecting your computer always. If you are using the Internet connection in your machine there are always high chances that it can get infected due to different kinds of infectious items into your machine. They can harm your computer system in many ways including reducing the performance to a great extent. So in order to maintain and speed up your PC you must use an up to date antivirus program.

Remove all unwanted software programs from your system

Too many software can conflict, occupy memory space, and consume lots of system resources and finally resulting in poor performance by your machine. The best practices to maintain your computer system is remove all the unwanted programs from your system and make it burden free and light.

Verify your hardware components are not faulty and you have sufficient RAM

A computer system is combination of hardware equipments and software programs. If any of the hardware is not working or broken or faulty it certainly reduces the speed and performance of your computer system. So to speed up your PC and for the best maintenance you must ensure that all the hardware components are in working state and there is no fault at all.  Remember there is no alternatives for any hardware fault and no PC cleaner software can fix your hardware related fault.

Try avoiding many changes such as removing, installing always new programs

It is strongly suggest try avoiding as many as changes you can. Due to frequent changes your windows gets corrupt and fragmented. Also windows have a central database which is known as windows registry and it gets affected severely. Thus if possible make only very essential changes such as installing new programs, removing programs frequently from PC, trying all the free software programs and so on. Also never install too many software program (Especially the security related software)

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

What makes a personal computer slow?


Performance degradation is the biggest and commonest issue a user faces with him PC/ computer. The performance denotes that how well your computer works? How well all the functionalities and other components of your machine are working? Well in the primary and basic cause of losing the performance it must be noted that if anything goes wrong in your computer system, it affects the performance. The performance is the mirror of all your system’s overall working and status of your hardware, software components. If any of the components (software or hardware) does not work properly more or less this is going to affect your whole computer’s functionality and performance eventually.

To improve the performance and to speed up your PC performance you must understand what all factors make it run slow, because unless you are sure about the reasons of slow performance you cannot fix the issue. This is a common and fundamental fact about any issue.

When we talk about the slow PC reasons or how to speed up your computer this is important to know that there are number of factors that can make your PC run slow. However discussing all of them here is not possible so let’s focus on the factors that are most important and very often cause the performance issue in your computer. They are main followings below:

Hardware issues
Hardware components are the basic and the most essential requirements for running a computer system. If they are not in working state of if they are faulty you cannot expect your computer running faster or smoothly. In order to speed up your computer you must verify and ensure that there is no hardware related fault at all.

RAM issue
RAM or random access memory is one of the primary necessities of your computer system. The second thing you need to look to speed up your PC is the RAM. If your RAM is not sufficient enough it cannot load the heavy application to execute.

Computer Virus
The other important reason of performance degradation is due to presence of computer virus and various other malwares. A virus can affect your computer in many ways. And every single activity of a virus reduces your computer’s performance, efficiency and speed. In order to speed up your PC you must run the most up to date antivirus program which can kill all kinds of viruses and malwares.

Corrupt Windows registry
In major software related issues in your Windows the corrupt and fragmented Windows registry is the biggest mess. A corrupt and fragmented registry can cause many kinds of ill effects in your system. In order to clean and speed up your PC you must ensure and clean and working windows registry. There are many registry fix available online that can help you to fix your corrupt windows registry. Remember not all of the registry fix software are worth to run in your PC rather very few of them really work and can fix your registry issues effectively and safely.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Causes of your Slow Computer


Performance has always been the biggest concern for any machine; a poor performance is never acceptable from any machine and so is applicable for a computer system as well. Since the computer has invented countless changes and modification, revolution have been made, however still today the performance and other issues can be seen easily with many systems.  

With the help of this guide you can speed up your computer within few minutes of exercise. All the steps and points that are mentioned below are very essential and in my personal experience applicable for almost all the versions of Windows system. Though they are also not new for a PC user however, they are the crucial so need to be practice and followed properly.
There are certain things you need to make sure about:
  1. Make sure all your hardware components are in working state, they are compatible enough and the biggest one they are sufficient to run the OS and other application software program. If you really want to speed up your computer you must install the most efficient hardware equipments. 
  2. The other important unit or step is to check if the installed RAM is sufficient enough to run the application and OS. Slow computer is result of low RAM as well. No PC optimizer can speed up your PC/computer if your installed RAM is not sufficient.
  3. The third important aspect of a slow system or slow PC is presence of infectious items such as a virus, spyware, Trojan and many other malwares. Make your computer virus free and free from all other malicious items. Up to date and effective antivirus and other security programs can remove all infections from your computer.
  4. The fourth thing to be checked is any corrupt and incompatible installed device driver. If you have corrupt driver set they can cause many issues including the poor performance one. Don’t use any PC cleaner program to remove or fix them rather uninstall and reinstall the new and fresh set of drivers. 
  5. In another step you need to check and remove all the unwanted programs from your computer. Unwanted programs do not contribute to speed up your computer rather they occupy hard drive space and consume lots of system resources. 
  6. Fragmented Windows registry- Corrupt/bloated windows registry can also cause many issues in your computer such as freezing, slow shutdown, slow start up, blue screen error messages, and many more. To remove all such registry problems your need some program which can clean all the bad and unwanted items from your computer registry. The registry fix is such concept which can help you to fix all your registry issues without harming your necessary registry and PC settings.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Registry Errors: The Most Important Causes of a Slow PC



Performance, speed, efficiency or in nut shell the output is directly proportion to the speed and efficiency of your machine. The same is also applicable for a computer system whose speed and efficiency decides how soon and speedily you can get your work done. If you are experiencing a slow computer problem with your machine it means there is something which is causing the issue and you frequently might think how to speed up slow pc. A computer system could be slowing down due to one of the following mainly:

A faulty hardware
A faulty hardware can cause the performance issue. In order to speed up your computer make sure all your hardware components are in working state. 

Insufficient Random Access Memory
RAM is the main memory of your computer system. There is no replacement of RAM if it’s insufficient. No PC cleaner or any other software program can speed up your PC if you have low RAM.  So make sure your system has ample amount of memory. 

Too many unneeded programs that are installed in your machine

Too many and unwanted programs can consume lots of system resources and when it is required to execute any important application it runs very slow. This is why it is advised to uninstall all such programs that are not important for your computer system and speed up your computer. 

Corrupt and fragmented device drivers
Corrupt device drivers can also make your computer run slow. Sometime the corrupt and incompatible drivers also produce many blue screen error messages.  We suggest uninstall and reinstall the fresh set of your device drivers directly from the manufacturer’s website. 

Virus, spyware, Trojan and many other computer infectious items
Virus and its synonyms’ such as Trojan spyware etc are also the strong reason of a poor PC or behind a slow PC there could be many viruses and other malicious programs. Use the latest and up to date antivirus program that can remove all the infectious items from your PC. Removing all infections certainly helps to speedup your computer to a great extent

Corrupt/ bloated and fragmented Windows registry
This is the most important causes of a slow computer issue. When you uninstall an application from your computer some of the remnants remain in the computer’s registry and gradually they get accumulated. As a result over time they create the huge database of garbage registry items. These unwanted registry items create many issues and affect the overall system performance. Thus in order to fix and speedup your PC you must remove these items on an immediate basis so that your PC can respire smoothly and you can make it run smoothly as well.