The last time I encountered this problem it was caused by a bad sector on the hard drive and replacing the hard drive fixed the problem. This time it wasn’t the hard drive and even booting from a DVD presented the same problem. To track the cause of this type of problem once you have eliminated everything except the motherboard, processor and memory would require that you have a second identically configured computer so as to be able to swap the processor and memory from one to the other. Sometimes it is just easier to buy a new computer.

System Rebooting after a couple of Minutes

Despite all the security issues that Microsoft introduced into windows with hiding the extensions of known file types they persist in configuring this option that provides harmful software with a way to disguise itself. Here’s how to correct tis setting and make your computer more secure.

Showing File Extensions in Windows 7

Just occasionally you come across a book that covers a subject in sufficient detail that you don’t need any other books to fill gaps in the information it provides. This is such a book with respect to how to use GIMP. Of course it can’t provide the necessary talent needed to know what to create but it does cover how in full detail.

Find out more about what I think of the book The Book of GIMP.

Unlike many of the other programs that have a find and replace option, Microsoft Word attempts to retain the same calitalisation for the relacement content as you had with the original.

Capitalization and Replace </p.

Some indexes make the database faster while others make it slower. It all depends on how frequently the index is used and how often the table is updated.

To Index or not to Index

Microsoft Word makes it easy for you to group all of the elements in your document to which certain processing is to be applied so as to apply those processes to all of them at the same time.

Grouping Objects

Bookmarking provides a way of tracking those web pages that you may want to return to in the future.

Bookmarking

Another in my series of articles aimed at those new to the internet this article provides some basic information on how domain names work in getting you to the web site that the domain name belongs to.

How Domains Work