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PC Buyer Beware! is a comprehensive PC guide covering desktop and laptop/notebook PCs that provides the knowledge required to make sensible buying, building, upgrading, networking, broadband, recovering, repairing and computer-security decisions, helping users to solve hardware and software problems - PC Problems & Solutions - via articles and questions and answers (Q&As). All of the major components have their own section devoted to them, such as hard disk drives, graphics cards, processors, motherboards, monitors, networking equipment, etc. There are separate sections devoted to computer security, software and all of the versions of Windows currently in use - XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can access the main sections of this website by making use of the navigation bar on the left or specific information by entering a search query in the Search pcbuyerbeware.co.uk feature at the top of each page.

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Please read the following article on the Mail Online and if you feel as outraged as I do you can sign the petition linked to below it, which is to be delivered to the Australian Home Affairs Minister, Brendan O'Connor. Also, please send the links to as many of your friends and relatives as possible via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you have a website you could, as I have, place this entire entry somewhere prominent on it.

Mail Online story - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045016/...

Petition - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/...

WINDOWS 7

Windows 7 - The latest versions of Windows

Click the following link to read the article on this website on Windows 7, the latest versions of Windows: Install, Use, Restore, Recover and Repair Windows 7 - Win7: How It Differs from Windows XP and Vista.

Computer diagnostics: How to solve or fix common desktop and laptop PC hardware and software problems

The hardware and software problems dealt with on this website are in the order of their popularity in October 2011. When applicable, the order will change to match the popularity recorded by this site's web logs in the previous month.

Click a relevant link below to visit the information it describes

1. - Hard disk drive problems: How to fix computer hard disk drive (HDD) problems

2. - CD/DVD drive problems: How to fix problems with CD and DVD drives and discs

3. - Network problems: How to fix common wired and wireless networking and internet problems

4. - Video/graphics card problems: How fix common computer video and graphics problems

5. - Motherboard and power supply problems: How to fix common problems with faulty motherboards (mainboards) and power supplies (PSUs)

6. - RAM memory problems: How to fix problems with the Random Access Memory

7. - Laptop/notebook problems: How to address or fix the most common laptop/netbook problems

8. - Software problems: How to fix problems with Windows, programs, and utilities

Also visit the Software pages on this site for more information on specific software-related information.

9. - Recovering and repairing Windows Vista when a computer crashes or fails to boot

10. - Windows XP: How to troubleshoot and fix shutdown, restart (reboot), and startup problems

11. - Recovering and repairing Windows XP when a computer crashes or fails to boot

12. - Windows Vista problems: How to fix common problems with Windows Vista

13. - Processor problems: How fix common processor (CPU) problems

14. - Recover, restore and repair Windows 7 (Win7) when a computer crashes or fails to boot

15. - Windows 7 problems: How to diagnose and fix problems with Windows 7

16. - USB and FireWire problems: - How to fix common USB and FireWire problems

17. - Typical DLL (Dynamic Link Library) device driver problems

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Visit the Build a PC pages of this website for information on how to build a desktop PC and solve self-build problems and visit the other sections, such as the Processors pages - which provide information on the brand-leading Intel Core Family processors - and the Video/Graphics, Sound, Motherboards and Monitors pages, which provide plenty of useful and detailed information on those components.

The Tips & Tricks pages of this site contain additional useful tips, tricks and problem-solving advice.

UPGRADE CHECKLISTS

Visit the Upgrade Checklists pages on this site for checklists and useful information that cover upgrading the main componenents of desktop PCs of various ages. Some of the information is applicable when upgrading laptop PCs, such as upgrading Windows to Windows 7.

MEDIA CENTER PCs

Visit the Media Center PCs page on this site for information on them.

It is now possible to build your own Media Center PC that is specifically designed to provide home entertainment, because the version of Windows that runs such a computer - Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - can now be purchased on its own instead of only as part of a Media Center PC. Moreover, Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Ultimate editions come with Media Center built into them. The Windows Media Center has been improved in Windows 7. The following page contains a video of the new features. -

Windows 7 features - Windows Media Center -

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/...

How to improve the Windows Media Center in Windows Vista and Windows 7

By improving how Windows Vista and Windows 7 interacts with Media Center and improving the video and sound quality by the addition of third party software you can enhance the experience of using Media Center considerably and make it play video formats other than videos in the WMV format.

Click here! to read an article on this website called How to improve the Windows Media Center in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Using Windows Vista and Windows 7

Click here! to go to the page on this site that deals with Windows Vista, Microsoft's replacement for Windows XP.

Click here! to go to the page on this site that deals with Windows 7, Microsoft's replacement for Windows Vista.

COMPUTER SECURITY

For PC security information visit the main Security section of this website, or make use of the site search engine at the top of each of the main pages to search for references to specific information on topics such as how best to keep secure on the web, security software, hardware and software firewalls, identity theft, privacy issues, how to hide from Google, phishing scams, viruses, malware, spyware, backup implementations, etc.

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While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on this website, the author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

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