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What to do with 2 - 4 years old computer running slow ? Time and again we encounter this question at our shop. First thing we do is run a small diagnostic in their presence and try to check the SMART status of the hard drive. 80% of the time we will see many attributes which are way over then normal values. To name a few, Read Errors, Write Errors, Load Unload Cycle Counts, Write Errors, Command Time Out etc. Bottom Line is these factors bring down the hard Drive Read/Write performance substantially making whole computer use very slow. Most of us use the computers these days for browsing on the Internet and that required huge amount of data to be downloaded, written on to our hard drive and then rendered to be displayed where our Internet speed plays role in the 1st Step, Hard Drive Performance the 2nd Step and the Processor & Memory the 3rd Step. So if you have a good internet connection & reasonably good specification on your processor & memory and still it's slow the...

 

How to Get Best Wifi Performance Placement of your wifi router largely affects the connection No matter which provider you choose to go with, there are several things you can do at home to keep your connection running smoothly. Specifically, where you place your wifi router has a big impact on the quality of your wifi connection. WHERE TO PUT YOUR ROUTER We recommend to keep the wifi router standing upright and off of the floor, such as on a shelf or table, keeping it off of other equipment to reduce interference and in the center of the house. WHERE NOT TO PUT YOUR ROUTER One should never place their router near. Other wireless devices Microwaves Television Bluetooth devices The corner of a basement or far-off corner Baby monitors Cordless phones Inside or behind cabinets and furniture Anything that could block modem vents Metal building materials Concrete building materials Glass building materials Depending on the layout of your home, it may be difficult to avoid every single one of...

71M Compromised Email Accounts Listed Online, How to Check Yours Find out if your email address is one of the nearly 71 million in the recent Naz.API data breach dump.  https://haveibeenpwned.com/ 

 What ??? Like Rick of Pawn Star says, you don't know what comes in through the door, We too are always challenged with what comes through the door. Laptop been through the accident came in for data recovery. Lucky for the customer, we could successfully recover the data from this crushed piece of once a laptop. These kinds of accidents can really save one's skin if proper data backup strategy is implemented. We are here to help for any such situations and to guide you to establish Bullet Proof Backup.

New Warning from FBI FBI warns of search engine ads pushing malware, phishing. The FBI warns that threat actors are using search engine advertisements to promote websites distributing ransomware or stealing login credentials for financial institutions and crypto exchanges. In today's public service announcement, the federal law enforcement agency said threat actors purchase advertisements that impersonate legitimate businesses or services. These ads appear at the top of search result pages and link to sites that look identical to the impersonated company's website. "When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result," warns the FBI. "These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business's official webpage." When searching for software, the FBI says advertisements will link to websit...