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The Computer Ate My Homework
by James The degree to which computers have infiltrated the education system was brought home during parent-teacher night for the 2007-8 school year. My older daughter’s math teacher politely offered her email address as the best and most efficient way Read More...
Consumers Plagued with Slow Computers
support.com has announced the top consumer computer problems that cause consumers to call for support, as reported by our call center located in Syracuse, New York. The top five problems account for 85% of calls into support.com’s remote tech support Read More...
Problems, Problems and More Problems
By James American broadband Internet-connected households (55 million of them and growing) experienced around 120 million problems with home computers that caused significant inconvenience during 2006 (according to support.com market research). 120 million Read More...
Secure Yourself Online
By Nikhil Continuing with my crusade to help protect home computer users from the dangers of the cyber world, I spent some time performing a small research on preventive security measures. I was surprised by the fact that it requires very little effort Read More...
Prevention is Better Than the Cure
By Nikhil Ok, so here is yet another example of home user cyber-woes! Yesterday morning I got a frantic call from my sister to help her out with her age-old home PC problem. She was quite disturbed since her entire personal data was stored on it and was Read More...
Should you run your anti-virus program in safe mode?
By Shail Sometimes at support.com we have long discussions over email about the best way to help our customers. Viruses and spyware are always difficult issues, because they can truly interfere with your ability to operate your computer, and are designed Read More...