PC Help Journal

So I came across one of the most troubling PC problems of the decade.  One of my friend’s laptop had a problem where it would shutdown Internet Explorer and display the “Internet Explorer has stopped working.”  The same goes for browsing in the folders on the desktop where Windows Explorer would randomly close and restart itself.  After numerous research [Read More...]

EASEUS Partition Master is No. 1 in the file management category over at download.com with over 400,000 downloads PER MONTH!  They want to give away their professional version (worth $39.95) to the visitors of this site.  There will be unlimited licenses from now til February 20th.  Here are some key features [Read More...]

The WinVista Club has created a lightweight tweaker for your Windows tweaking needs.  It’s compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).  [Read More...]

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas.  If not, then I hope you’ll have a great New Year.  To celebrate, Digiarty Software will be giving out its special edition version of WinX DVD for free!  Here is the email that I received… [Read More...]

Microsoft has recently unravelled their new antivirus protection, Microsoft Security Essentials.  The program is very very lightweight compared to other popular virus protection.  It’s extremely easy to use and it can be updated easily through automatic updates.  It’s FREE for all of you who have [Read More...]

I received 3 standard license keys from Handy Backup and would love to hand them out to my readers.  The first 3 to comment on this blog or contact me via email will [Read More...]

AVG anti-virus has been around for a while.  I currently have AVG 8.5 on my home machine.  It really does the job.  The only problems I have with it is that the scan (I set it up weekly) will take hours and hours to complete and it slows down my computer in terms of boot time and performance wise.  With the new AVG 9.0, scan time will be reduced [Read More...]

There were numerous times where I left my computer unattended or if I’m in a game that Windows Update decides to reboot my machine.  You only have the option to “postpone” this reboot.  Thanks to the guys [Read More...]

I, personally, have not used this feature but I know many others out there that would love to know how to password protect their documents. It’s beneficial to have the document protected in the case of having confidential information. I created a video tutorial to do just that. There is a little bit [Read More...]

I decided to take a different approach and write an article on netbooks and why they’re great for college.  Netbooks, aka mini notebooks, are small and budget laptop computers.  They are great for web surfing, note taking, writing a paper, checking emails, and the list goes on.  A netbook sacrifices speed and power for portability [Read More...]