Top 5 reasons why Windows Crashes?

Has this ever happened with you that while trying to finish up a project for work, the computer suddenly freezes or you see the “Blue Screen of Death”?

If your PC consistently crashes there is most likely a reason behind it.

In this article we will discuss some reason why Windows crash.

Reason 1: Bad memory and Motherboard:  Many crashes that result in Blue Screen of Death occurs because of bad memory or motherboard issue, which means data that should be stored in memory could not be retrieved.

What are the tips for creating strong and easy passwords?

Creating strong password is not an easy task, especially when the recommendation is to have a unique password for each site you visit. Creating password that is both safe and memorable gets harder as we have to memorize so many passwords of different accounts. 

It’s really important to be able to come up with passwords that are personal enough to remember but different and complex enough to be secure. So learning and understanding how make a strong passwords is a crucial skill that you will need often to use for creating different accounts password that are strong as well as unique.

How to Enable DNS Lookup Through a Firewall?

Firewall is responsible for restricting the traffic a computer can send and receive over the Internet. By creating a strict, locked-down firewall policy, user can easily manage the exact traffic allowed on their network. Further, you can enhance the security of your LAN by having a strict firewall security policy, which will allow you to manage the data that reaches network.

When you try to connect to a website, the computer will connect to the DNS server and retrieve the IP address for the entered website. If DNS lookup is disabled on your firewall, it will not be possible to connect to Web addresses and surf the Internet.

Follow these instructions to enable DNS lookup through a firewall:

6 Tips to fix DLL Error in Windows?

What is a DLL File?  
   
Dynamic Link Library is a type of file that contains certain instructions that other programs can call upon to perform certain things.

What is a DLL error?

DLL error is any error that occurs with a DLL file and these errors can occur in any Microsoft’s operating systems (Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP).

How to fix three most common problems while upgrading Operating System.

 Upgrading to new operating system can be stressful experience, whether the up-gradation is being done on personal computer at home or an office full of workstations. Basically updation is done to take advantage of new features or to run new applications, but sometimes upgrading operating system can go wrong.

Some tips to diagnose and improve MacBook battery status

MacBook battery problems are quiet common that almost all users face. You may have noticed that your MacBook is not lasting as long as it used to be or it is getting switched off almost a few minutes after being removed from the charger.

However, there are few indicators that tell the MacBook battery status. For example, the one discussed above. If you notice your MacBook is almost discharge just after being removed from the charger or if the battery indicator at the top right corner of the screen never says 100%. It is also a sign that the battery is dying. A good and healthy battery charges completely.

How to Fix Most Common Windows XP Problems

Windows XP was released in the year 2001, and it remained installed about a quarter of the world’s PC, which makes it the second most popular OS. Though Windows XP is a robust operating system, but it has some flaws that can’t be ignored.
Microsoft announced to withdraw support for Windows XP that made the situation more complicated.

 
Here we are going to discuss some easy steps to fix most common Windows XP problems. 

How to Turn off Text Message Notification Alerts on iPhone and iPad?

iPhone has a default setting for message alerts to chime with the text tone, whenever a new incoming text or MMS message arrives. This alert repeat every 2 minutes to make sure a new message came in. The repeat text message sound or vibration can be helpful, but when you get frequent notification for the same message again and again, you are pissed off. Many iPhone users must have faced this situation when they receive alerts twice or more for the single message.

In this article we’ll cover how to turn off text message on iPhone so that, alerts never repeats at all.

Step1: At first, open Settings on your iPhone.

What are the ways to reduce computer power consumption?

Computer is in use for hours every day, which is why making it energy efficient is becoming increasingly important. It will not only go easy on your wallet but also increase your electric bill.

 Here are some ways that can help you to reduce desktop computer power consumption.

1. Optimize Windows with CO2 Saver: CO2 Saver is a free lightweight toolbars application that runs in Windows. It adjusts the power settings to consume less electricity when you are not frequently using computer, monitor and hard drive. This tool calculates the power saved and converts it into pounds of CO2 emissions.

How to implement disk quotas management in windows 7 and Windows 8.1?

When a computer is used by multiple users, you might want to limit the amount of storage space used by every user. This ensures that the storage space on a certain drive or partition is never filled up by a single user only. This article will help you to understand what are disk quotas? How to set them in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1?

What are Disk Quotas?

Disk space quotas control the storage space available on NTFS driver or partition. By setting quotas, an administrator can set the amount of information a user can store on the drive or partition. This means that, whenever user exceeds its disk quota, he/she will not able to store any new data on it.

How disk quotas work in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1?

1. To set disk quotas and quota limit, Use Windows account that has administrative privileges. Normal or standard user cannot set quotas.
2. Hard drive must use the NTFS file system. (FAT32 formatted driver cannot set disk quotas)
3. Disk quotas can be set for disks or partitions not on folders.
4. For multiple driver or partition on Windows computer, quotas limits will be set individually for each one.

IPS/ IDS systems Vs Firewall: Which is better for network security?

The universal presence of networking has totally changed by the internet. Networks that were once completely isolated are now connected to the world. This connectivity has surely allowed companies to achieve their big target but somewhere also shown them the dark side. The internet is now also the place for cyber criminals who use the network connectivity to launch an unpredictable number of attacks. To make your network secure, understand what the difference between IPS, IDS and Firewall: Which one is better?

Understanding IPS, IDS, and Firewall:

Intrusion Detection System:
IDS is a device or security mechanism that monitors network or system activities for malicious activities and provides reports to the management station. IDS systems are only responsible for detecting an intrusion and sending an alert.

Why Windows Internet Explorer Wont remembers a Password?

Internet Explorer is by default configured to automatically remember the passwords for the website that require log in. But if the browser does not remember passwords, resetting or reinstallation is not the perfect solution. Instead, you need to consider changing some computer settings and addressing issues.
Internet Explorer Setting:
Turn on the IE’s option to automatically remember passwords. For that follow these steps:
Step 1: Open the “Internet option” and click the “Content” tab.
Step 2: Select the “AutoComplete Settings” button.
Step 3: Enable the “Usernames and Passwords on forms “option.
Step 4: Click the “Ok” button and then click “OK” again to save the changes.
Note: If you don’t need passwords to save on every site you visit, click the “Ask Me Before Saving Passwords” option too.

Setting up VPN on Windows phone 8.1

Windows 8.1 now supports VPNs. With the addition of it on Windows 8.1 phones it has became possible to connect them easily to the corporate networks and also allows configuring devices to connect automatically to Internet when required.

Now Windows 8.1 has extended support for VPNs and it also includes app specific VPN capabilities. In Windows phone 8.1, VPN is supported by many major VPN vendors, which makes it easier to connect to the corporate networks. Configure your Windows 8.1 devices let the VPN tunnels activated automatically, helping the user to reconnect when required.

Basically Windows phone 8.1 support two VPN protocols:
• IKEv2 ( Internet Key Exchange version 2)
• SSL-VPN (Secure Sockets Layer VPN)

Setting up a VPN connection in Windows phone 8.1 is quiet easy; just requires few simple steps to be followed.

 IKEv2 VPN in Windows phone 8.1
IKEv2 VPN in Windows phone 8.1 allows the device to tolerate interruptions. If the connection is lost due to some reason, IKEv2 will automatically restore the VPN connection until the connection is established again.

How to share a printer on a network with Windows and MAC OS X

Windows and MAC can both get together and share files and printers on a network. You can do this with a single wired printer connected to all the computers on your network. The modern wireless printers share themselves through a network by getting connected to it. For sharing a printer on a network with Windows and MAC you need to follow these steps.

Share printer on Windows 

For sharing a printer on Windows you need to visit the network and sharing center in Windows Control Panel. Then click on the Change advanced sharing settings and then on file and print sharing.

. Move on to the printer list in the Control Panel and right click on the printer that needs to be shared; and select printer properties.

. After finishing this go to the sharing tab and enable sharing of the printer and give it a name.

How to update Skype in Windows Desktop?

If you are still on an older version of Skype, you would be signed out of Skype automatically and won’t be able to sign in again until you upgrade to the newer version. Simply follow these steps to install the latest version of Skype for Windows.

To check the Skype version:

1.      Sign in to Skype.

2.      In the menu bar, click Help> About Skype

How to Build a Cheap Gaming PC on a Budget?

To get into the world of gaming there are two ways. The first way is to buy a Gaming PC and the second way is to get into hardcore gaming by building a gaming PC yourself.

The truth is that you can build the exact computer the gaming computer companies build in less money than needed to purchase one.

Difference between IP address and MAC address: Why system needs both?

Why is both MAC as well as IP address needed? This question might have been strike through your mind. Isn’t having an IP address is sufficient? Why does your computer needs both the address to connect to a network? What is the difference between an IP address and MAC address?

 

In this post,  you’d  get answers for these questions as, we are going to discuss both the addresses and show you the difference between both and why you need them.

Solutions to improve data backup speed

As we all know backup systems are very important but sometimes they become a major source of headache. One of the biggest issues with any backup system is its slow performance and is often related to the efficiency of the backup software or capabilities of the backup hardware.

The complete procedure of backing up the data can be compared to a pipeline of varying sizes, containing data to the backup destination. If any of the sections in the pipe is blocked due to some problem, congestion thus created slows down the entire procedure. 

The idea here is to find out the reasons leading to congestion and providing data backup solutions to resolve the issues. Here are the probable reasons:

Tips to fix slow performance of internet explorer

It has been noticed that as, time passes almost all the programs running on windows performs slow.  But, fortunately there are many tools available to take care of such issues. There are also program specific steps that must be performed to make the individual programs faster.Internet explorer is also a program that performs slowly with time.

 

If you’re facing the same issue of internet explorer running slow and want to fix it as soon as possible then here are some tricks to speed up your internet explorer.

How to Fix Audio and Video Synchronization Problem with VLC?

Have you ever played a video on VLC that doesn’t have the sync audio and video? If it’s the case, you would want to know how to get that straight because it can make a movie un-watchable.

When you come across a video that has audio syncing problems, the sound track and dialogue are off by as much as a few seconds from what the characters are (appearing to) saying, making it almost impossible to watch the video.

To fix audio track problem to sync with the video track you need to follow these steps: