Tips, Tricks, and Ideas
If you are having a problem with your computer, printer, or any other hardware device check to make sure its plugged in.
If it is plugged in check what it is plugged into. Battery backups, line conditioners and surge protectors have a shelf life, most have a reset switch. If the reset switch is off turn it on and see if your device comes on. If it is not off, trying plugging into another outlet, before you assume it's broken.
Your computer is a machine, and only operates as fast as it is capable of, don't get impatient with load times, download times, or upload times, make your self a cup of coffee while its uploading, work on another project, the computer is designed to multi-task so take advantage of this and plan ahead.
Remember sleep and log off does not turn your computer off.
Most of you are more advanced computer users than you realize. Be confident in your skills.
If you are having trouble with software, there are several ways to fix this:
1.If you are trying to remove software from you computer you go to your control panel or just control, then you go to add / remove programs or program features, this takes awhile to populate just be patient it will populate, take a break for a sec and walk away. Once the list has populated click on the software you want to remove and then click remove.
2.If you are installing new software just put the disc in your cd/dvd player and it will automatically start up, then follow the instructions it will provide you with.
If your computer is just acting strange, your getting error messages that you don't understand try using perfect utilities to clean your computer, thanks to Willis suggestion and find this I have been using it for a couple of weeks now, it is very easy to use and very efficient. Programs or software like this take a long time to run. You can download perfect utilities here: http://www.putils.com/
If you want to see what you have stored in your computer, that's where you go. Either My Computer or Computer, it will show you all your drives, you can then click on a drive to see what's in it. If its in a folder you can open that folder to see the contents of said folder.
Try to keep your files organized in a way that makes sense to you a good filing system is no good if you don't know the filing system.
Remember you double click to open something, (folder or program), you single click to cause an action in the program. You left click when you want to execute something, you right click when you want to know what options you have.
Always use file and exit when possible.
Remember you will always have a menu bar in all programs to see what tools are available.
Remember you can always email me or call me with questions.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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