Home Computer Repair

Every day, most of people all over the world faces the problems with their personal computers. Some computer problems are easier to repair and some others are very difficult. Just as with automobile repairs, there are some steps you should follow when repairing your personal computer by your own. You can do yourself, and save you from having to pay for costly repairs in a computer repair shop.

Generally there are two types of problems that you can encounter when operating your computer. These problems either may be problems with software, or problems with hardware.

The first step to use when you are facing problem with your computer and want to repairing it is the process of elimination. If your computer is running much more slowly than usual, or giving many error messages, try closing any programs that you currently are not using. Leaving programs opened when they are not in use can cause your computer to become unstable and sluggish.

If you have closed your unused programs and still facing same slow operating system or intermittent error messages, close every open program and reboot your computer once. Rebooting your computer clears system resources such as unused memory and hard disk space that programs and files take up. You can delete temporary files and folder. Even you can run the disk cleanup utility:

> Start
> All Program
> Accessories
> System Tools
> Disk Cleanup

If you still encounter errors with software, then you can try un-installing the application, or upgrading to the latest version of the application and device drivers.

After rebooting the computer, delete any un-wanted files that you do not need anymore such as old word processing documents, files in your Internet history, and Internet cookies. Keeping old and unused files on your hard drive, especially your Internet browsing history, Internet temporary files and cookies. It is possibility that your computer could became infected with spyware and viruses. In that case you would have to full scan your all files such as word processing documents and pictures in the future, move them to a removable storage device such as a floppy disk CD-ROM or a jump drive.