One of my roommates, in the throes of a head cold, decided to start trying to troubleshoot our furnace — by flicking off random switches in our circuit breaker. I was right in the middle of a game of Left 4 Dead when
I just took my old machine into the local computer repairman's shop, mostly as an experiment. I'd built it about two years ago but it died in my most recent move, it'd power on but wouldn't boot, so I figured it was worth
My old gaming PC is dead. It gave up the ghost after I moved to my new apartment. What was worse, it died after a brief dalliance with life: I wired it all back up in my bedroom, flipped the
When computing becomes a trudge, the most important consideration is to recognize and repair software problems first.
If you're on Windows-based PCs, spyware and other kinds of malevolent software can bog down the system. Install, and regularly update and run, antivirus
