Preventive Maintenance Schedule and Summary

In order for preventive maintenance to be useful, you have to remember to do it! This is not always as easy as it sounds. Most of us have equipment around the house that we know we should work on but we always forget if not reminded (I do). Something that can help is to create a preventive maintenance schedule.

As discussed here, some types of maintenance are really better done when they need to be done based on the condition of the system or devi...

Continue reading ...

How-to Use Check Disk

Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

1. Open the Start Menu and click Computer.
2. Right-click the drive you want to perform a check disk on and select Properties.
3. Click the Tools tab in the drive Properties window.

   

4. Click Check Now under error checking.
5. To perform a complete check of your hard drive for errors check off both options in the check disk window that pops up.

   

6. Click the Start button to start the process.
7. If you are trying to check a hard drive that has open files ...

Continue reading ...

How to run Chkdsk

Notes

• Chkdsk requires exclusive access to a volume when it runs. Therefore, if one or more of the files are open on the disk that you want to check, Chkdsk displays a prompt asking if you want schedule the disk check for the next time that you restart your computer.
• Chkdsk might take a long time to run, depending on the number of files and folders, the size of the volume, disk performance, and available system resources, such as processor and memory.
• Chkdsk might not accurately...

Continue reading ...

Check your hard disk for errors

You can help solve some computer problems and improve the performance of your computer by making sure that your hard disk has no errors.

Continue reading ...

Here are some additional techniques used by specific browsers to help clear the browser's cache so you see the changes when a page is reloaded.

Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Hold down SHIFT and click on the REFRESH button in the toolbar under the menu.
2. For Complete Cache Clearing: If you are having problems clearing out the cache, then force it by choosing from the menu TOOLS -> INTERNET OPTIONS -> TEMPORARY FILES. Click on Delete Temporary Files. You can choose the check box to delete...

Continue reading ...