Most of us who have been using the Windows system are familiar with the Firewall utility that comes with it. Some even consider it an annoying add-on because of some pop up prompt that it causes to appear on your computer screen. However, what most people don’t realize is that this tool offers protection that […]

Disk errors are common to ageing computers especially the ones that lack maintenance but luckily, Windows has a disk checking tool included on its set of system utilities which is capable of scanning your hard disk partitions from bad and lost sectors and as well as corrupted files. The files that are checked and fixed […]

Have you been experiencing some problems with a driver installed on your computer that your system says missing? This is a common problem on most computers which are used for different tasks. Most people use the “System Information” tool to show all information about system components both hardware and software. However, the way each information […]

There are times that you need to disable Windows 7 or Windows 8’s sharing wizard so you can have a greater control on the way folders and libraries are shared. This scenario shouldn’t happen so often if you know how to use the Advanced Sharing feature of Windows. Using this sharing feature is quite complicated […]

To novice users, terms relating to some techie and network related stuff like “IP Address”sounds a bit confusing especially if your system and its network access requires you to identify it. IP Address or Internet Protocol Address is a set of numbers used to tag each device and identify its location on a network. Devices […]