This short guide will help you turn off the build-in firewall in Windows XP. Note that disabling firewall will make your computer more vulnerable to viruses, and therefore I recommend that you stop this feature for testing purposes only. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Power supply is one of the most important components in the computer and of course, the only one, that any other component can’t work without. The quality of power supply is very important for the normal operation of you computer but it’s not responsible about how fast it would be. Therefore, if you replace it with new one, perhaps you won’t feel that you’ve made an upgrade (except that perhaps the new one would be more silent). Very often its importance is overlooked by many users who prefer to invest the money saved from a power supply in more memory, or faster processor. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The first and maybe most important thing to know is that no matter how trying to save the life of your battery, sooner or later you will need to replace it with new one. You should also know that today’s technology still doesn’t allow the production of durable batteries whose characteristics do not change over time. Manufacturers of batteries use different innovations to reduce the effects of the negative aspects of technology used to produce this type of batteries, but generally, lithium-ion batteries have some unavoidable shortcomings that limit their lives within a maximum of about 2-3 years. This is the normal period of use, after which you can use only part of the initial capacity of the battery. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This guide explains how to clean the cooling module and apply new thermal grease on CPU in Aser Aspire 3515 series laptop, but most likely this guide will also work for some other Aser Aspire models. In this model you first have to remove the CPU fan and then remove the cooler ( heatsink ). [Read the rest of this entry...]
This guide will help you to remove and replace the keyboard in a Packard Bell MX37 series laptop, but most likely this guide will also work for some other Packard Bell models. [Read the rest of this entry...]
