Computers are more than essential these days. It is hard to imagine a world without them. So, keeping your computer healthy and in good shape it is always vital to run your business, personal finances, or just to have a good working computer to play around.

As a PC technician I have learned a few steps that you can do every day to keep your computer in excellent working conditions. So here are the essential daily tasks to do in your computer.

Today I came across with a problem in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3. I setup a POP 3 account in the program and everything was working right.

It was sending and receiving e-mails, but for some reason when I was trying to send an e-mail to a hotmail, live, gmail, or any other free e-mail account, Outlook was sending me this error “Error 503: Valid RCPT command must precede DATA” or error “550 This Server.”

If you have more than one operating system installed on your computer, you are likely have to deal with the OS selector that Microsoft installer configures during installation of another Operative System.

If you have more than one OS, Windows by default gives 30 seconds in the Boot Process to select the OS you want, such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux. If you use only one OS most of the time, you would definitely save booting time if you set that OS time  selector to at least 3 seconds instead of 30 seconds.

Have you ever had the problem that your computer doesn't read CD's or DVD's anymore? If that is your case keep reading, these tips may be helpful for you.

We have been checking tons of computers and one of the main problems on them is that the DVD or CD Drive does not work anymore. The following tips can give you an idea what you can do if this problem is happening to you. Please be advised that there are a lot of problems involved with computers and not necessarily these tips are going to fix yours, but who knows probably they may.

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