Hello, this morning I was troubleshooting a very easy problem from a friend. The thing was that he was using a 19-in-1 USB card reader device. He told me that the USB device was working fine in the morning but when a pop up window appeared on his computer the device stopped working for some reason. He told me that he clicked on the window and he was very sure that it was the thing that made the USB went wrong. Before I continue, I will always recommend to a general computer user explain to the technician as much detail as he can about the problem, that will definitely help him to spot the issue on the system. Now while I was inside the system, I just did very basic USB troubleshooting.

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If you are using more than 1 GB of memory on your computer, you could probably disable the paging file on Windows XP without causing any trouble on the system. The paging file basically help programs get more memory when you run out of physical memory ram or in other words exceed the physical memory installed on a PC.

For instance, if you are using a program that is consuming 512 MB of physical memory, and you only have 512 MB of memory ram, the paging file will create virtual memory so your program does not crash.

Well, hello everyone again, this past week we were working on an old desktop model from Dell. The customer has been owned the computer for about 6 or more years and surprisingly she has never took the PC to any computer shop to repair and apply any updates to Windows. When she called us, she told us that the computer was not working anymore and the last thing she did was to use Windows Update.

The error she was seeing on the screen was,

Windows XP has over 250 different font variations that it loads for use when the system boots up. Most likely, you really only use the core Windows fonts, such as Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, and MS Sans Serif, as you can imagine, loading over 250 fonts is something that will take the system more time to do. So, it is always better to have fewer fonts. Before start removing fonts from your fonts folder, take a look at the fonts below, which are commonly used by windows and they should not be removed.

Changing the Boot screen of your Windows XP system can give you a more personalized look to your PC. Yes, it can be excited to have a more personalized PC, but also can have an impact on your system if you don't use the right tools. So in this tutorial, you will learn how to change the XP Boot screen in a easy and safe way.

First of all you will need to download Bootskin from this link:

 http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/downloads.asp

CMOS Battery. In this tutorial you will learn how to replace the battery, and why you need to change it every 3 to 5 years. Please don't forget to adjust the date and time after replacing the old battery.

CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip.