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3 spring cleaning tips for your PC

3 spring cleaning tips for your PC

by The Cibertek on 24. Apr, 2010 in Maintenance

Its time to “spring clean” your PC Rig or laptop just like you do for the rest of your domicile. Your machine has been accumulating dust bunnies, body hair, body cells, crumbs, as well as, old temp files, deleted files, and outdated programs all winter. Its time to clean it out both inside and outside.

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Windows 7 hidden treasures: Cool Keyboard shortcuts

Windows 7 hidden treasures: Cool Keyboard shortcuts

by The Cibertek on 07. Apr, 2010 in Tools, Windows

Just came across this page on the Microsoft Windows site called “20 PC Shortcuts You Need to Know”. I thought I knew every keyboard shortcut there was but I actually learned a few new ones after reading this.

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Windows 7 hidden treasures: Problem Steps Recorder

by The Cibertek on 22. Feb, 2010 in Tools, Windows

The “Problem Steps Recorder” or PSR is one of those little free programs that should of been in every version of Windows since 3.1. Unfortunately, it only comes with Windows 7. The PSR in short could save you some pain when troubleshooting problems and is worth spending time to learn how to use it.

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More tips to improve your wireless signal

More tips to improve your wireless signal

by The Cibertek on 27. Jan, 2010 in Networking, News

Last week I posted 5 tips to help improve your home network connection speed. Continuing on that theme, here is a Great article by Tony Northrup posted on the Microsoft at Home with some more tips to help improve performance.

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Quick Windows 7 upgrade tips

Quick Windows 7 upgrade tips

by The Cibertek on 27. Aug, 2009 in Software, Windows

I’ve installed W7 on over 50 times and I haven’t run into any major issues so far myself. However, I keep hearing from and seen others with problems doing the upgrade option to W7. Mostly hardware compatibility issues and software problems, especially with some XP programs. Almost all of these problems can be avoided however, with some simple preplanning. If you’re going to do the upgrade yourself, don’t just jump into it and pop the DVD in your system and fire it up. These 3 tips will make the process smoother and hopefully error free:

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