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Check Monitor Pixels with IsMyLcdOK

If you feel that your monitor is not displaying the images as it should be or the pixels are not showing up as they should then you could check them easily.

There are many tools available on the internet to test and check the dead pixels on the screen and IsMyLcdOK is one of them which [...]

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Display Information about Video Card and GPU with GPU-Z

Graphics Card is very important for better display of the picture and for that it is necessary to have a good and sufficient Graphics Card installed in the system. In case you didn’t know anything about the Video Card installed in your PC then here is a simple tool for that.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility [...]

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Get Complete System Report with LookInMyPC

Is your RAM faulty? What is your processor configuration? Don’t know? No problem, answer is here.
Here is a tool called LookInMyPC which generates a complete, comprehensive system profile that includes information on all installed hardware and software.

Along with these details, it provides system diagnostic information such as details on running processes, installed services, startup programs, [...]

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Solve PC Beeps Continuously After Startup

The problem was reported by one of our reads who was troubled by the fact that his PC made continuous beep sound after he switched ON his system.
So if it is the same case with you then try out following stuffs as this can remove the problem for you easily.
Steps:
1. First of all to ensure that [...]

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Lower Process Priority Automatically during CPU High Usage

There are occasions when the CPU uses many resources and consumes 100 percent memory like when converting a movie from one format to another.
This makes the system slow and takes lot of time to complete a task. We can, however, set the priority of the task to normal or even below that but the problem [...]

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Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Disk with HDD Regenerator

I have mentioned earlier about removing the bad sectors from the disk but recently one of our readers named Rob, told me about a tool that can repair the bad sectors easily and reliably.

The tool is called HDD Regenerator and the tool is able to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface. [...]

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[Solved] CD Drive not Detected

There may be a case that your CD/DVD drive is ejecting properly but it is not showing up in the My Computer. This was the problem with one of our readers and here are the solutions for that.

Solution 1:
•    First ensure that your device is enabled from the Device Manager.
•    Go to Control Panel -> [...]

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View Installed and Connected USB Drives on the Computer

Whenever you connect your USB Drive in your computer for the first time it takes bit of time to install the driver and then detects it. But whenever you connect it at later time it does not get installed.
If you wish, you can view all the USB drives that you have connected to your system [...]

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Burn Disc Successful but Disc is Not Reading

It must have happened to you one or the other day that you have burnt a disc CD or DVD but it is showing blank and not reading in many drives.
Well if this is the case then here is what to do to avoid this in future.
Steps:
1. The first and the prime thing to note [...]

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Free Tools to Read Data from Damaged CD

This is a usual case with all of us, and almost all of us have damaged CDs but with important data that we don’t want to miss.
If this is the case with you then you can try the following free software that can read or recover the data from the damaged and corrupted CDs.

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Test and Diagnose your Monitor Screen

Thinking to buy a new LCD monitor for your desktop then I am sure that this post will help you a lot.

You may want to diagnose your monitor and find if there are any defects in it like the skewing of colours on the sides. Well if this is the case then the following free [...]

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Tip of the Week: Vacuum your CPU

So you have a CPU fan that is producing lot of noise or the CPU is getting heated a lot, whatever be the reason this week’s tip will solve your problems.
If you have not removed the dust from your computer for a long time now, do it this weekend. It is a good practice to [...]

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