Services are an integral part of the Windows operating system. Many are critical, and disabling the wrong services can lead to broken functionality or even an operating system that is not starting up anymore. The majority of Windows users manage services from the build in Services Manager which they can launch with the hotkey Windows-r [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I get troubleshooting emails on a wide variety of subjects, it’s always great when you can help people out and one I received this week was from someone who’d bought the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus in response to a minor virus attack on her PC. Kaspersky removed the virus diligently enough, but it had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

If you are following the news on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8 you may know that the Redmond company is planning to add a restore to factory defaults option to the OS. When you press the button, the system is returned to its initial state, handy for public systems but also for users who [...]

Categories: Software, troubleshooting, Windows

If you are looking to speed up the startup of your Windows operating system then the following tip may be for your. You probably have already removed unnecessary startup items and tweaked some system settings and the Bios of the computer to improve the operating system’s startup time. You may also have disabled some system [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

There was a time when Yahoo! was the portal everyone went to for search and social groups online.  Sadly Google stole the company’s crown and now Yahoo! has even slipped into third place in search behind Microsoft’s Bing engine.  Now though Yahoo! is releasing new upgraded services in an effort to make itself cool again [...]

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Most Windows users who manage the services of their operating system do that either in MSConfig or in the Services management console. The latter offers descriptions and additional information that the System Configuration tool does not offer. Still, both applications lump all services together in one big list, which makes the configuration process tedious. The [...]

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SMART, which stands for Service Management And Real easy Tweaking utility, has nothing to do with the S.M.A.R.T. technology in modern hard drives despite the naming similarities. The program is a windows services optimizer based on BlackVipers service optimization tips for the Windows 7 operating system. The main purpose of the software is to provide [...]

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Working with services in Windows regularly can be quite the challenge. The official way to manage Windows services is to open Services manager. Once the Services manager has been opened it can be used to start and stop services or to change their startup type. The services manager is fine if the process is done [...]

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Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows