Monday, April 15, 2013

Various Computer Tools To Fix System Errors


IT enabled business operations have gone advanced nowadays. Business enterprises makes use of relevant and timely information to optimize the business goals and there are complex information technology infrastructures that deliver outstanding services to business establishments, companies, stock markets and many other sorts of business needs. All these services are accomplished by several servers, computers, sophisticated communication networks and other devices. The goal is to maintain efficient and reliable services at the investment of optimal resources.

However, occasional failures or errors can happen to the system, subsystems and components. In such a situation, we need to fix the errors immediately and in this aspect, an IT help team can assist you. These professionals make use of several computer tools to detect, analyze and fix such problems and here in the following description, we will familiarize with a few such equipments.

Remote desktop tools

This feature allows the professional to connect to a far away workstation or server for troubleshooting. Using this facility, technicians are able to view the troubled computer’s desktop and thus understand what actually is troubling the user. This increases the operational bandwidth of the IT support team.

Network analysis tools

Sometimes, problems will be with the interconnecting network layer rather than having issues on a workstation or a server. Troubleshooting errors in network, network analysis tools will help in a great extent. Tools like sniffers allow the technician to view the network traffic and thus they are able to detect communication problems as well as possible security issues related to the connectivity.

Hardware testing tools

These equipments allow the IT support professionals to locate problems associated with the hardware. These tools include Memory testers, POST diagnostic cards and certain hardware recovery utilities. All these equipments help to recover the troubled system promptly with a minimal downtime.

Help desk tools

The help desk applications help the IT staff keep the track of incidents on which they are currently working. When a request for technical support reaches the help desk, a ticket describing the problem is opened. The ticket is assigned to a member of the IT staff for solving the problem. Once the issue has been resolved, the help desk operator closes the ticket with a description of the problem resolved. The database increases its volume with possible issues and its solutions. It will help the professional to reach a quick solution when similar problems occur in the future.

A well-established and stable IT infrastructure is quite necessary for maintaining productivity and growth.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Steps To Repair Slow Computers


“There is nothing more frustrating than a slow computer”, says Mr. David. According to him, a tech freak, virus attacks, spywares and unnecessary junk computer files present in your laptop or desktop are the main reasons why a computer’s performance may show a downward trend. Follow Mr. David’s computer fix steps to fix your issues of slow computing.

Computer repair instructions

  • Switch on your laptop or desktop. 
  • Login with the administrator profile. When prompted, enter the username and password into the corresponding fields in the login screen. 
  • Delete all the unnecessary programs. Launch the Start Menu by clicking on the Start icon located on the bottom left corner of the Home Screen Taskbar. Click on the label that reads, control panel. Switch the control panel view from category view to classic view. From the icons listed down in the control panel window, select the label that reads Programs and Features. Right click on the programs that you want to remove from your computer and from the toolbar attached to your browser. Hit the Uninstall option from the dropdown. This will remove all the unwanted programs and features from the disk and will make the computer run faster. 
  • Launch the Start Menu once again by clicking on the Start icon located on the bottom left corner of the Home Screen Taskbar. Right click on the label All Programs and then run the Disk Cleanup software to remove all the unnecessary programs. Hit the label System Tools and then run the Disk Cleanup or antivirus and malware software to remove the malicious file codes running in the background. Malwares, spywares and adware can compromise your system and can contaminate your desktop and browser with advertisements and popup.
  • Remove all the temporary Internet files, Java applets and the Recycle bin data. To remove the temporary files, hit the Start Menu search space with the keyword RUN. Enter %temp% into the empty search field in the RUN dialogue box and hit Enter. Delete all the temporary files popping up. 
  • Launch the Start Menu once again by clicking on the Start icon located on the bottom left corner of the Home Screen Taskbar. Hit the Start Menu search space with the keyword RUN. Enter msconfig into the search space and then hit the Startup tab. Uncheck all the processes you do not want to load at startup.
  • Run the Disk Defragmenter. The Disk Defragmenter software will remove all the files and data that are compromising the computing speed. 


Follow the above computer repair tips to repair your snail speed computer. For more tips on the same, visit our tech blogs and forums.