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Drop your bags, fix a drink, and grab the Windows CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the ...

A: It’s possible for SSDs to slow down. The most common cause isn’t age, however, but it is the SSD being too full. Try to keep 20% to 30% of the drive free. Another possible cause of lower ...

Just follow these simple steps. It’s actually not as scary as it looks. The chart’s a compilation of all of the useful—and interactive—charts for PC troubleshooting and repair by Morris Rosenthal, ...

So how do you fix a computer if you don't know what's wrong with it? The answer is that you usually don't. But most of us –– unaided by anything that resembles logic –– tend to dive right into the ...

The IBM 1401 is a classic computer which IBM marketed throughout the 1960s, late enough for it to have used transistors rather than vacuum tubes, which is probably a good thing for this story. For ...

The top-rated computer repair shops (for quality and price) in the D.C. area, according to Consumers' Checkbook magazine (http://www.checkbook.org): BoonPC. Types of ...