Laptop / Desktop

The issue of files getting lost or corrupted is a hot topic on many online forums. At some point or the other, you might have lost a file to accidental deletion, corruption or circumstances you can’t explain. I myself recall those dark days when i would save my favorite songs on my 256 MB MP3 […]

One of the most common issues you’ll encounter as a PC user with internet access is heavy data usage (besides a slow PC; see https://www.hovatek.com/blog/how-to-fix-a-slow-hanging-or-crashing-pc/ to fix this ). If you’ve ever surfed the internet on a mobile phone then moved to a PC briefly, it’ll be difficult re-adjusting to the mobile view. With a

The first Blue Screen of Death is often the scariest for a noob PC user……and maybe a persistent one when you’re working on an important project. The Widows 8 version is less confusing than its Windows 7 counterpart.  In Windows 7, all you see is a blue screen with large white fonts disappearing just as

Over time, your laptop / desktop PC might start giving you suicide signals like getting annoyingly slow, taking ages to startup, regular hanging or crashing, the Blue Screen of Death etc. These issues don’t just spring up in one day, they are accumulated effects of some things you might have been ignoring or doing wrong

Startup problems could be very frustrating; they sure know how to pick the wrong time to popup. From my experience, a large number of situations where a PC will not startup are usually the user’s fault either due to poor computer maintenance practices or sheer apathy towards error prompts. Startup errors (contrary to popular belief)