Q: What preventative maintenance tasks should I be doing to help my computer run better? A: As with many other items in our lives, preventative maintenance is the key to avoiding expensive repairs ...

Purchasing a new computer is no small decision. A new laptop or desktop can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, so you want to keep it running smoothly and quietly for years. And if it does break ...

Dan Tynan is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He has won numerous journalism awards and his work has appeared in more than 70 publications, several of them not yet dead. Self-maintenance ...

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If your computer keeps waking up from sleep mode, there may be a few settings you can tweak to fix the problem. Here's how to ...

In Applications on a Flash Drive, I mentioned that I keep a flash drive with portable diagnostic tools I use for fixing friends’ and relatives’ PCs. Andy Ludlum asked what programs I keep on that ...

Originally called in to upgrade a wheezing custom server, Cascade Computer Maintenance over the past four years has built a solid foundation with customer Colson and Colson, a 50-person general ...