There are few certainties in life: Death, taxes, and turning your computer off and on when there’s a problem. This advice is usually the first tip you get from friends, family, and tech support.

Q. Many times when I am having a computer problem my IT guy will tell me to reboot my computer. And most of the time this will actually fix the problem. Why is that? A. As a computer is running and ...

Few things are more frustrating than watching your computer grind to a halt just when you need it most. Here's how you can fix freezes and crashes.

As in the title, this happened the other day when I touched my computer's side panel (Antec P183 case). Reading about this phenomena on the net has been almost comical, with individuals who claim to ...

Rebooting your PC may help you resolve this error. It is a general method to fix various problems on your computer and hopefully, it fixes this issue as well. If your ...

One of the cardinal rules of computer support is: “If it’s not working, reboot it.” I wrote about this last year, but judging from the questions I’ve received recently, it’s worth revisiting. If you ...

I need to take a running windows desktop box that's part of a domain, give it a new computer name, and then continue working on it (with the box having the new name), without having to reboot at all.

Windows updates can seem stuck, but they may be running especially slow — if yours is truly stuck, there are ways to troubleshoot. Beware of interfering with an update too soon; if you stop an update ...