How to Permanently Wipe All Data from a Hard Drive

My previous job was at a state university. Before sending our old computers off to auction, we had to wipe all hard drives according to Department of Defense 5220-22.M standards. This was to ensure the next owner would not be able to recover any sensitive files that were stored on the computer even through forensic…

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How to Automatically Back Up Your Hard Drive

How to Back Up Your Computer – for Free with Comodo Backup! Just follow these steps to achieve a Comodo backup free. If you support users like I do, then you will know how frustrated and upset they can get when their hard drive fails and they have no backup. Loosing valuable files and data…

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Easily Repair a Corrupt Internet Connection

Have you ever come across a computer that wouldn’t connect to the Internet after removing spyware or other network related software? Or maybe you can connect, but you can only visit certain sites while others time out. This problem is associated with winsock corruption in Windows XP. At this point most people reload the machine.…

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How to Host a Web Site from Your Computer

How to Host Your Own Website! In the following article I am going to show you how to host a website from your own computer. Why would you want to do this you might ask? Well for one, it’s free. It’s also great for hosting small web sites or sharing large files with friends.  I’ve…

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Remote Administration Made Easy

Over the years I have used many different types of remote administration utilities to manage my remote workstations and servers. Some of these utilities have worked great and others not so great. For the past year or so I have been using a free utility that I feel has surpassed all of the rest. It…

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18 Portable Apps that Every Tech Needs

Portable Apps for Computer Techs I am a tech and I have found all of these portable apps to be very useful so I thought I would share them with you. All of them can run directly from your USB flash drive. I hope you will find them useful too.

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Prevent DS_Store and Trashes Creation On USB Drives

If you are like me and you use your flash drive between your Mac and your PC then you have probably noticed some extra files that Macs leave behind when you open it up in Windows. These files are usually titled .Trashes, .DS_Store, and various other dot underscore files, which are called resource forks. After…

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Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data

Or… How to Fix a Clicking Hard Drive! Do you have a hard drive that won’t boot and you are suspicious that you can hear a clicking noise? In the industry, we call this the hard drive click of death and the hard drive clicking noise usually means the drive has experienced a physical failure,…

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