A hard drive should be defragmented about once a month as part of a good preventive maintenance schedule. You will find the disk defragmenter tool by following these steps: Click: Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools. If you want a good program that will do it for you automatically, try Ashampoo Magical Defrag […]
Question: I found out my Windows 95 system is infected by Win95.CIH virus version 2.1. I’ve used Norton AntiVirus to eliminate this virus, and I reformatted the hard drive. Still, I know this virus can do harm to the flash BIOS, so how can I check this part of the system? When Norton AntiVirus checks […]
Question: I see a lot of advances in the power of computers nearly every day, and a lot of great deals. My current system is equipped with an Intel Pentium II 300 Mhz processor. Now we are seeing Celeron and Pentium III and Xeon chips – what are the differences? There seem to be some […]
Question: I found this place on my computer where it says I can compress my C: drive so it has an extra 1200 megs available. Is there anything I need to know before I do this? Is it safe to do this without backing it up first? — Tony Answer: You’re talking about DriveSpace. It’s […]
Question: When my screen saver starts on my Toshiba 220CDS notebook, the hard drive is active for about ten minutes, and all the while my screen saver, the cube one that comes with Windows 95, is spinning away. After 10 minutes of continuous hard drive activity, it stops and the screen saver keeps going. If […]
