This tutorial will show you how to run a ScanDisk on your Vista PC.
What is a ScanDisk?
ScanDisk, also known as ‘Error Checking’ simply scans the file system and repairs any errors or bad clusters. This just helps keep your computer running smoothly and hopefully quickly, so its worth doing. How often depends on how much [...]
This tutorial will show you how run/schedule a Defragmentation on your Vista machine.
What is a Defrag?
If you use this analogy, your computer is like a filing cabinet, it starts all neat and tidy but over time it becomes messy and disorganised. Defrag simply tidies things up which makes it easier for the computer to [...]
You may find that your AVG Anti-Spam isn’t catching some of your SPAM Emails. If this is the case you will need to train AVG. You may have to do this a few times but AVG catches on pretty quick!
First of all open up your email program e.g. Microsoft Office 2007 (Although we are using [...]
A couple of months back AVG 8.0 Free was released and here at pctoolbox we have decided that its time to give it the quick once over and create a quick tutorial to help you use some of its basic features.
New Features:
The most noticeable thing about AVG 8 Free is the new user friendly interface. [...]
The following blog will show you how to download pictures from your digital camera onto a Vista machine and then how to manage the photos once they are on the computer.
First of all take some photos on your digital camera and then insert the camera into the computer using the USB cable provided with your [...]
A couple of months back Brandstar designed and published a free Address Book tool. The Address Book is ran on Microsoft Access, however don’t stop reading now if you’re thinking ‘I don’t have Access’, you can download for free Access 2007:Access Runtime. The download allows those who don’t have Access to run Access [...]
Google has created an incredibly easy way to share photos with people on the web. It’s called Picasa. Picasa is a great free download which helps you to organise photos on your computer, share photos via email and the web etc and to edit/add effect to your photos with just a couple of clicks. In [...]
This blog will show you how to use AVG Free Edition efficiently and effectively. AVG is a free (for personal use) virus scanning software download which we have found to be an excellent virus scanner.
AVG Will automatically update each day if the computer is connected to the Internet. The update will take roughly [...]
This blog will show you how to run a ScanDisk on your computer.
What is a ScanDisk?
ScanDisk, also known as Error Checking, simply scans the file system and repairs any errors or bad clusters.
First of all, click ‘Start’ and then ‘My Computer’.
Then right-click on ‘Local Disk’ (C:) - Your drive maybe called something other than ‘local [...]
The following blog will show you how to defragment your computer.
What is Defrag?
If you use this analogy, your computer is like a filing cabinet, it starts all neat and tidy but over time it becomes messy and disorganised. Defrag simply tidies things up which makes it easier for the computer to locate the information [...]
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