Computer Repair for Newbies and Experienced Users

I own a personal computer repair, information recovery and virus/spyware removal service and I am regularly asked if there are factors that an average user or even a way more skilled computer system user can do themselves to fix uncomplicated problems with their method.

Surprisingly there are many factors that you can do to assist speed up and even diagnose or troubleshoot your way by way of several widespread concerns fully on your own with out the aid of a skilled like me.

The cause I supply this assistance is due to the fact I would personally rather have you fix these frequent difficulties before you call me or bring your personal computer to my office for repairs. It will save you funds and me time that I can spend on other more complicated complications that demand greater skill and time to solve.

For virus and spyware difficulties the to begin with factor you ought to do is reboot your system in secure mode (be sure to specify safe mode with networking). If you are not certain how to boot your system in secure mode, use the following approach:

From a cold boot or right after a method restart, press your F8 important repeatedly though the system is booting up. You might possibly have to tap the crucial in succession for numerous seconds throughout the whole boot up sequence to insure that the bios detects the keystroke effectively.

You should be presented with a black screen with various options 1 of which will be: 'Safe Mode With Networking'.

Use your arrow keys to highlight the choice and then press enter/return.

You must see various messages scroll down the screen as the libraries are loaded.

Be patient this procedure can take a few minutes.

You might be warned that you are in safe mode which is fine. Once you have reached the desktop check to see if you can bring up an net explorer.

If you can and nonetheless do have access to the world wide web make certain that your browser is not being redirected through any proxy servers (this is a tactic that some virus/spyware programs use to send you to their sites).

1. From the online explorer tools menu select 'Internet Options'.
2. Making use of the tabs in the Online Selections dialog box select 'Connections'.
3. On the Connections menu press the button labeled 'LAN setting'.
4. Make sure that none of the boxes on this menu are selected.
five. Press OK twice to return to the World-wide-web Explorer.

Now in situations exactly where you have lost your World wide web Access this is a approach that can restore access countless times.

1. Click on Get started.
2. Form 'msconfig' into the search box.
three. You will need to see 'msconfig.exe' seem at the leading of the search dialog box.
4. Utilizing your mouse click on 'msconfig.exe'.
five. The method configuration utility need to start off and a dialog box will need to appear on your screen.
6. Utilizing the tabs at the top of the dialog box select 'Startup'.
7. Press the button labeled 'Disable all'.
8. Press 'Apply' and then 'OK'.

Now reboot your computer system and in numerous cases your web connection will have been restored and you can safely download a virus/spyware scanning application to take away whatever might have been causing your concerns.