http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog Fix PC Errors - Optimize and Speed Up Your PC Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:17:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is an excellent new software utility to help you recover those lost, corrupt, deleted or missing photos. The product is called Stellar Photo Recovery. Now you can recover photos from any type of media device, including: cameras, USB drives, hard drives and much more. It is quite common for photo storage ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/11/18/recover-lost-photos/ Windows XP has a cool little program called "NetMeeting". This program was meant for online meetings, messaging and you can even do remote assistance with this software. It is a nice program, but the hell is it hidden on Windows XP? It doesnt really show up anywhere unless you know ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/11/11/enable-netmeeting-on-windows-xp/ Have you ever had a locked Office document that you couldn't open or needed to desperately access a protected Excel file, but nobody could remember the password? Well most of us have experienced this at one point or another and it can be very frustrating. Quite often if you didn't have ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/11/04/recover-office-passwords-and-files/ Microsoft has issued some critical out of cycle updates to address certain security issues. Make sure you have your automatic updates turned on, or visit the Microsoft update site to get these updates. They are critical and you are considered at risk if you don't have these latest updates installed. This ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/30/microsoft-critical-updates/ Readyboost is the feature in Vista that allows you to add extra RAM with flash/USB drives. This is a useful feature if you have have maxed out your RAM already but still need some more. This usually works well with laptops that have more limited RAM capacities than desktop computers. This ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/28/use-readyboost-to-speed-up-vista/ When your system boots up it will run a self test and beep. Normally 1 short beep means that everything is ok. However, when something is wrong with your system, the beeping you hear at bootup actually means something. So listen to the beep sequence, because from that you can determine ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/21/bios-beep-codes/ If your desktop items are missing, don't panic. It is most likely just a properties setting that is responsible. If you try this and find it is not the case, then you might be infected with adware/spyware/virus. To recover your desktop items: Right-click on your desktop Select "Arrange Icons By" Make sure "Show Desktop ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/16/fix-missing-desktop-items/ All of your USB devices are allocated part of the Windows bandwidth. So to keep an eye on this and see how much your USB devices are using, try this: - Go to "Control Panel" -> Click on "System" - Click the "Hardware" tab - Click "Device Manager" - Expand the "Universal Serial Bus ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/13/monitor-usb-usage/ All too often Outlook PST files can become damaged, corrupt, oversized or they can just go missing. Unfortunately, these PST files contain all of our email, calendars, contacts and much more, so losing them can be a real disaster. It can be quite difficult (if not impossible) to repair an Outlook ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/08/fix-outlook-pst-files/ Internet Explorer 7 has a few tweaks, and some of them are actually quite useful. Here is a little tweak that will enable you to zoom in on text. If you have bad vision (like me), then this will be really handy. To zoom in on text, hold down "CTRL" and ... http://pc-fast-fix.com/blog/2008/10/03/internet-explorer-7-tweaks-zooming-on-text/