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Entries Tagged ‘What’

ScanDisk on Vista

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 [...]

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Defrag on Vista

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 [...]

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Welcome to Pc Toolbox

Hello and Welcome
PcToolbox is a site linked with Brandstar UK and managed by their Technical Director Graham Martin (Me!). The aim of the site is to offer some techie blogs that are hopefully aimed at non-techies. Written for all to understand, highlighting the key information about the subject without going into [...]

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