pc-nerds and geeks

10 FREE WAY TO KEEP YOUR PC SAFE - 1st WAY

2008-03-11T07:33:00.000-07:00

1. Get Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Protection

If you want to protect your PC against viruses, you have to pay for it...and pay for it...and pay for it. Anti-virus makers these days charge annual fees, rather than a one-time purchase price, so you'll end up paying hundreds of dollars to protect your PC against viruses during its lifetime.

That is, unless you know which applications to use. It's true that companies like McAfee and Symantec charge in this manner, but there are, in fact, two free anti-virus programs that can do everything: offer real-time virus protection, scan for viruses, and automatically download the latest anti-virus signatures for maximum protection.

One is Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus Free, which has a companion anti-spyware program. Both are free for private, non-commercial, single home-computer use.

Another widely used free anti-virus program is Avast 4, free for home, non-commercial use. Avast even works with the beta of Windows Vista, something that few anti-virus programs are capable of doing.

As for anti-spyware tools, there are plenty of free ones out there. Ad-Aware Personal and Spybot Search & Destroy are excellent choices, as is Microsoft's Windows Defender. Anti-spyware programs don't always catch the same malware, so it's a good idea to scan your system regularly with at least two anti-spyware apps.

PC Parts for Sale

2007-10-20T04:45:00.000-07:00

I have (used) item

1. Functional ATX Power Supply 230V
2. PCI Modem

Kindly quote your price (accepted if reasonable), the price shall not include shipping charge
Buyer pay shipping charge.

Shall you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to pm me.
Thank you

Edvan Player

2007-10-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Here i have a 2 Gb player purchased from my brother

Current Collection
1. MP4 player
2. HP Ipaq
3. 2 Powerful PC (outdated already, but still fine for me)
4. A lappy (one year old)

Btw Selamat Hari Raya

This is Bulldozer

2007-07-24T04:29:00.000-07:00

Bulldozer is a machine that would crash you in a single minute, and that's not what happen in China when Mr. Pagar said that they would accept the software piracy (their OS) as a "looking forward" investment.

Mr Pagar also believe that one day, the pirate software user would turn into a paid and registered user. There are 120 million personal computers in China and only 244 copies of WinXP sold.

This is sooo different action for soooo called big gun like Mr Pagar. Last time they complained about our government did not take serious action to get rid and preventing the piracy and the pirates.

Now what they had said of same scenario happened in China?

Wow Vista

2007-07-20T15:40:00.001-07:00

Vista's Aero visual environment includes the flip 3-D feature, which allows a user to cycle through a stack of open windows to find the desired application, shown above, and translucent window borders. Vista also offers "Gadgets," small programs that recall Mac "Widgets" (far right of screen above).

Yeah, quite interesting approach, but many users out there didn't like of its huge resource consumption which makes your (old) computer work slower and some may think the os had crashed.

As a conclusion, don't go for Vista yet, unless you are ready to loose few of your working program/software, probably i think we should wait for Vista SP1 to avoid any potential bug. And the software publisher also need sometime to make their software work with Vista.

Read this

2007-07-20T10:54:00.001-07:00

How to become a millionaire

2007-05-27T08:38:00.000-07:00

A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at Microsoft.

The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning
the floor as a Test. “You are employed” he said. “Give me your
e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as the date when you may start.”

The man replied “But I don’t have a computer, nor an email.”

“I’m sorry”, said the HR manager, “If you don’t have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot hav the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door-to-door round.

In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started t go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday.

Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US . He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email.

The man replied, “I don’t have an email.”

The broker answered curiously, “You don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!”

The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”

Moral of the story

1. Internet/email is not the only solution to your life.
2. If you don’t have Internet / email and work hard, you can be a millionaire.

3. If you received this message by email, you are probably already an office boy/girl, and not any close to being a millionaire…

Have a great day!!!

P.S - Do not forward this email back to me; I am closing my email &
going to sell tomatoes!!! Hahaha… =p

TROUBLESHOOTING SCANDISK PROBLEMS.

2007-05-23T07:17:00.000-07:00

1.Apply one recommendation at a time and then try ccandisk again whether it helped.

2.Disable the screen saver and anti virus program and unplugged the cable/DSL modem (if any).

3. Delete the files in the recycle in, the browser cache (Temporary Internet Files folder) and the Temp, history and recent folders. Corrupted files can also cause scandisk problems.

4. You may receive a notice indicating the drive was written to and caused scandisk to restart. This means some process is causing hard drive activity which interferes with scandisk. Either reboot to safe mode and run scandisk from there or use EndItAll, a free program which shuts down nearly all running programs except Explorer and Systray. Download the program from here: www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm To boot to safe mode in W98, see: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q180/9/02.asp

5. There are so many Knowledge Base articles about scandisk that I could not include them all. If you don’t find an article below that applies to your situation, check the following article:

List of Articles About the ScanDisk Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q287/9/14.asp

Scandisk and Disk Defragmenter Processes Are Not Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q264746

Disk Is full..." or "ScanDisk Cannot Check the Drive
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q137/9/18.asp

Description of ScanDisk for Windows (Scandskw.exe) in Windows 98
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q186/3/65.asp

Error Message: ScanDisk Cannot Check Drive
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q154/9/98.asp

ScanDisk Errors on IDE Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q243/4/50.asp

How to Cause ScanDisk for Windows to Retest Bad Clusters
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q127/0/55.asp

ScanDisk Fails Repairing Bad Allocated Cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q130/5/11.asp

Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q222/4/69.asp

Err Msg: ScanDisk Was Unable to Finish Correcting This
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q149/4/32.asp

Err Msg: ScanDisk Cannot Check This Drive Now Because the
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q134/4/56.asp

ScanDisk Reports Invalid Date/Time for Many Files
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q132/6/27.asp

Error Message: Not Enough Memory to Run ScanDisk
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q134/9/86.asp

ScanDisk Out of Memory Error Message
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q132/8/32.asp

Disk Defragmenter or ScanDisk Loops Continuously
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q172/4/73.asp

General Protection Fault Error Message Running ScanDisk
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q135/9/64.asp

ScanDisk Repeatedly Tells You to Exit and Run ScanDisk Again
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q106/0/95.asp

How ScanDisk Fixes Bad Sectors
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q103/9/56.asp

How Often To Defrag

2007-05-23T02:33:00.001-07:00

If defragging your computer results in a performance increase, it would seem that frequently defragmenting your computer would keep it in top form at all times. But exactly how often should you defragment your hard drive?

This question is often hotly debated because the answer is relative to what you use your computer for. Any computer use (even simply turning on your computer and turning it off again) creates a degree of file fragmentation. To know how often you should defragment your hard drive, you first need to know what kind of a computer user you are. Most computer users can be sorted into three categories: minimal users, moderate users, and advanced users.

Minimal. A minimal computer user only uses a computer for a certain fixed task, such as typing a letter or playing solitaire. Most often, a minimal user does not use email or the Internet and is on his computer less than a few hours a week. Minimal users should defragment their hard drive once each month at minimum. While additional defragmentations will not hurt the drive, the performance gained through the process does not justify the time or effort.

Moderate. A moderate user uses his computer on a daily basis for Internet, email, word processing, or other productivity tasks. Digital photography activity, music downloading, and frequently adding and removing programs can lead to significant file fragmentation in a short period of time. A home office user would easily fit into this category. Moderate computer users should defragment their hard drive once each week. The temporary Internet files that are stored and subsequently deleted can lead to significant file fragmentation. In addition, desktop publishing applications or other productivity tools tend to create significantly large temporary files that are frequently modified and then deleted once the application is closed. The holes left behind by these deleted files are known as free space fragmentation.

Advanced. An advanced user is defined as a computer user who uses his computer for several hours each day for intense activities. These activities can include high-end video gaming, video- or audio-editing, advanced photo manipulation, and software development. Advanced users should defragment their hard drive(s) daily or every other day. The typical advanced user activities create enormous temporary files that are almost constantly modified before eventually being deleted. In addition, the massive audio or video files that are created by these users tend to be broken up and stored in every available nook and cranny on the drive. Advanced users who do not defragment their drives frequently will see rapid and dramatic reductions in performance as a result of file fragmentation.

How Often To Defrag

2007-05-23T02:33:00.000-07:00