Search Results
Search Results [1 - 10] of 15
How to Back Up Favorites
Favorites and Bookmarks make it very convenient for many users to save direct links to useful and often-visited sites on their browsers. Backing up these important pieces of data is an important part of best practices, computer security, and convenience. Here are the [...]
How to Format a USB Memory Key
USB ports are not just for storing large amounts of data on a flash disk or an external drive. When your computer fails because of an operating system problem, you may need to boot from an external booting device to enter DOS, and [...]
How to Boot from USB
Thanks to open-source software and high-capacity USB disks and drives, it’s now possible to literally have an entire operating system on the tip of your thumb. A bootable USB disk gives you all the functionality of an entire operating system configured to your [...]
How to Make a Bootable USB
Thanks to developments in hardware and removable storage media, you can now make boot devices out of high-capacity USB thumb drives, flash drives, or even memory cards. A bootable USB makes it very convenient for people on the go to boot their preferred [...]
How to Secure a Wireless Connection
Wireless networks are very convenient because they’re fairly easy to set up. Yet the same ease and convenience that comes with setting up wireless connections makes it prone to unauthorized access and abuse. Here’s how you can secure your wireless connections in your [...]
How to Export an Outlook Address Book
Microsoft Outlook is a very powerful and versatile e-mail program, but some users and networks prefer to use other programs to serve their e-mail needs. The transition from Outlook to another e-mail program is easy, although there are some simple steps you need [...]
How to Zip Files
No matter how large the capacity of a drive or storage medium is, the amount of space used to store data is always limited. Today’s documents, images, sound, and other files tend to be large, and it becomes very important for people [...]
How to Fix the Blue Screen of Death
Reliability and stability are major concerns for computer manufacturers and software developers. Most computers are built and designed to be foolproof, but all hardware components and programs will eventually crash from stress, compatibility issues, and configuration problems. One of the signs of reliability [...]
How to Detect and Remove the Conficker Worm
You may have thought of it as a bad April Fools’ Day prank, but the Conficker worm - as funny as it sounds - is a very real threat to the security of your computer. Millions of computers and networks are infected [...]
How to Repair a USB Thumbdrive
Computer peripherals that run through the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface are becoming very popular today. USB is especially popular for portable data storage, thanks to reliable high-capacity thumbdrives and flash disks. There are times that USB disks do fail, and here are [...]