Welcome to the PC Gurus Tech Tips Page.
At PC Gurus, we have learned that to be in the service industry takes more than just having a useful vocation. Aside from being able to offer comprehensive solutions, upgrades, and recommendations, we also endeavor to constantly educate our customers as well. Experience is most certainly the best teacher; once you have experienced our services hopefully you have learned a few new tricks that will make your life easier in front of your PC. If not, or just for those that could use a refresher from time to time, we have developed this section of our site to be available to our customers as a resource. The content on this page is designed to provide you with some general information, walkthrough guides for do-it-yourself tasks, and some good solid home remedies to help keep you educated and hopefully to alleviate the need for unnecessary service calls.
Virus / Spyware Survival Guide
Our Virus / Spyware survival guide contains general information about what viruses and spyware are, how to avoid getting them, and how to deal with problems arising from viruses or spyware. This document will help you understand fundamentally what you are really up against out there on the web.
Wireless Network Survival Guide
Our Wireless Network Survival Guide was developed for those of you with a wireless network that we installed, or perhaps for those of you already using one. This document provides all of the basic information to be documented for a wireless network so that you never find yourself without access; it’s also handy when being forced to answer “techie” questions over the phone or otherwise. The other portion of this document contains basic information and routine problem solving information about wireless networks so that you can learn to administrate yours effectively.
PC Gurus Software Walkthrough Section
This area of our Tech Tips Page serves two purposes. First, we have put together full color, screen shot walkthroughs of 3 of the most important routine maintenance tasks that you can undertake when caring for your PC. These steps will ensure that even the most novice home user will be able to tackle the job of keeping their computer clean and running efficiently. Second, we provide you, our customers, with walkthroughs for the 2 most popular and highly recommended protective software titles available to PC users. When the PC Gurus clean a system from infection, we never walk away leaving you vulnerable to repetitive infection, it is our mission to implement preventative measures so that you do not find your PC in bad condition soon after a clean up. As such, we do recommend and install protective software titles to keep just that from happening in an effort to save you, our customers, time and money.
Disk Cleanup Walkthrough
Disk Cleanup is a handy utility provided in your Windows operating system that is designed to keep your computer free of clutter. Over time, your PC naturally generates files that become unnecessary after whatever task they were designed for has been completed. Think of it as taking out the trash for your PC. This utility will help in removing the excess files that are bogging your system performance down. This guide walks you through cleaning out your system with the Disk Cleanup utility on a regular basis.
Disk Defragmenter Walkthrough
Disk fragmentation is a phenomenon that naturally occurs over the usage of your PC’s hard drive. Throughout your PC’s lifespan programs are constantly being accessed, installed, and uninstalled. This fact causes your hard drive to naturally slow down due to longer access times of files on the disk. Disk Defragmenter will, as the name suggests, “defragment” your disk. In so doing, your hard drive will put its stored data back in order for efficient access, which in turn, speeds up its performance. This is one of the most important and most neglected preventative maintenance tasks you can perform for your PC. This guide walks you through the steps of defragging your disk regularly.
Windows Update Walkthrough
Keeping your PC up to date is vital to its stability, reliability, and consistent operation. As your PC ages, naturally Microsoft is finding ways to improve Windows through patches, hot fixes, and updates. Windows update connects you to the Microsoft update site so that you may download, for free, newly released fixes for your copy of Windows. This guide walks you through a typical system update and shows you the steps to take to get your PC up to date routinely.
Protective Software Walkthrough
Protecting your PC against viruses and spyware has becoming the greatest concern for PC users over the last few years. For our customers, it’s vital that PC Gurus is able to implement a comprehensive protection solution to keep your PC safe from intruders. You will find that there are many software titles available to do just that, and while there is no single, catch-all, fix-all guarantees out there, not all software is created equal. Two of our most highly recommended software titles are Norton Anti-virus 2006 for virus protection and Webroot Spysweeper for spyware protection. Below are detailed walkthroughs with each title that take you through the basic functions of both.
Norton Anti-virus 2006 Walkthrough
Norton Anti-virus 2006 is one of the best stand alone anti-virus software titles available. Its UI (user interface) is pretty intuitive, which is important for novice users. This guide provides step-by-step instruction on updating and scanning your PC.
Webroot Spysweeper Walkthrough
Webroot Spysweeper is one of the best stand alone anti-spyware software titles available. It protects against many types of intrusions and protects many different venues that spyware uses to infiltrate your PC. This guide walks you through using its comprehensive UI (user interface) to clean and protect your PC from invasion.
Useful websites
Below are some links that many PC experts rely on to keep on top of their knowledge in the computer world. You will find that many of these sites also contain valuable utilities available for use to the general public that will help you with numerous computer activities.
http://www.theeldergeek.com
http://www.howstuffworks.com
http://www.tomshardware.com
http://www.theinquirer.net
http://www.ign.com
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