Microsoft Great Plains - Typical Problems And Fixes - Overview For IT Administrators How to delete the user? This is the first problem you encounter - when user shuts down the computer - Great Plains doesn't have the command to log off the user and when user tries to login the next day - she gets error message that user is already logged on. The fix: Mi...

Trouble-shooting Hard Drive Problems - Part 1 It is extremely important not to make or write any changes to data on the hard drive without first verifying the hard drive configuration. Therefore, the first priority when unable to access information on a hard drive is to verify all of the configuration information dealing with the suspect har...

What to Look for in a Video Card The proper graphics card can help speed up almost any system by taking the responsibility of many visual functions, allowing the CPU to work more effectively in other areas. Let's take a look at a few of the key features to look for in a graphics card. Most all graphics cards are based on ...

Booting Problem in PC One fine day you start your PC and get messages that say,"Book Disk failure". The problem is that the hard disk is detected but the OS does not load. The system may get stuck in the second screen during the booting process or the OS might display an error message and refuse to load. Such situat...

Vista Is Turning Into A Problem For Microsoft I never saw this coming. Microsoft announced a couple of days ago that they were not going to release Windows Vista in the third or even fourth quarters of this year. As you may remember there was a freeze on features just a couple of weeks ago and I as well as many others were waiting to s...

The Brain has the Same Problems that Databases Do What can the human brain learn from how a database works? There is a battle going on in every database and the same battle in every human brain. The battle is simply Memory vs. CPU (processing). We either rely on indexes to recall data or we count on the CPU to calculate the resulting...

Computer Problems. How Do You Avoid Them I see Danny Burke of PC Magic once a month to sort out any problems on my computer and to help me move ahead with an internet info product business. Danny spends most of his week rescuing business owners who are having problems with their computers. Last week I asked him for the advic...

Problems Occurring with Software When an individual purchases a piece of software, the last thing he/she wants to discover is that there is something amiss with the purchase. Quite often a problem that arises with a purchase is incompatibility, that is, the product simply will not work with your computer because your system eith...

Basic Troubleshooting - Boot Problems Part 2 of 2 If the system still does not boot after the above, try to boot in 'Safe Mode' Restart, and use the F8 key as before. This time select 'Safe Mode' and hit Enter. The screen displays a list of drivers and then continues with the boot process. If you arrive at the basic desktop, the boot h...

Common Problems Why Hard Disks Crash There are so many reasons why your hard disk may crashed: (1) It may be caused by mechanical or physical problem such as the spindle motor system failure. This failure is usually caused by over-heating. The activity light flashing that you see on your CPU (central processing unit) indicates...

How To Resolve Cable, DSL, and Dialup Modem Problems When it comes to diagnosing the modem and any other computer problem,always start with the most obvious first.Modem problems may be repaired as fast as re-booting the computer or can be as complex as resolving hardware conflicts. First remember to check for the most obvious signs of trouble...

Trouble-shooting Hard Drive Problems - Part 2 A common problem with hard drives is the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM." Typically what this means is that critical data is missing or damaged in two possible locations. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR). This data area contains error messages and pointer information tha...

Basic Troubleshooting - Boot Problems Part 1 of 2 For many of the procedures mentioned here, you will need to be an administrator, or have administrator privileges. Having established in the first part of basic troubleshooting that your computer is powered on, the next thing to check is if it boots up normally. We will be talking about Win...

Onsite Computer Repair Businesses both large and small live by the phrase "time is money" and cannot afford computer "downtime" due to software or hardware problems. In today's highly competitive and technical world, computers have become a vital part of a businesses' success and a possible cause of its failure.<...

Computer Viruses There're viruses that don't affect human body but are still really painful for mankind. It is computer viruses. A computer virus itself is a program that diffuses into the computer files and cracks them. The first acknowledged virus dates back to 1987 called the "Brain". The "Brain" is a bo...