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Taking care of your computer is probably the last thing you ever thought if it is compared to taking care of your house, kids, pets or business. If you are a computer user and you often used your computer, then you should really consider of doing regular maintenance.

Starting by maintaining your computer hardware, maintaining your operating system then computer applications.
There are some important components in your computer that needs to be taking care of. In this article, we will discuss one of them and how to keep it clean.

One of the most important components in computer hardware is a fan. Fan is located in the computer’s CPU also known as processor, it responsible cooling down your computer’s processor. If you install a fan in your computer’s case than if will keep almost your entire components cool. When attach a cooling fan on your hard disk then it will keep your hard disk cool.

So, in short words, a cooling fan is important.
But, a cooling fan is also a trouble for your computer if you don’t clean it up. A dirty cooling fan contains dust and can make your cooling fan to stop working, if it stops working than your processor can overheat and stop working well.

Cleaning up your computer from a dust is important and you need to do that regularly. If you are not sure on what you’re doing, don’t take any risk because it will cause serious damage to your computer. In that case, taking it to the hands of the professional would be a better choice. Just take it to a computer technician for a complete maintenance.

These days, Internet is considered as one of an important thing. We use Internet to find information, send emails, and buy things online. There are also many contents on the Internet that not suitable for children.

Parents must control what information is suitable for their children, but they can’t always be around when children is accessing the Internet. That is why many vendors creating Internet Parental Control system.

This article will describe a few of them.

The first thing you need to protect your children when they are using a computer is to prevent them to get access to passwords.
By doing this, you can keep them from sharing passwords with other people that can possibly affect the security of your system.

The second thing you need to do is using the same computer.
You can sit next to your children while there are going online, you can guide them to make a good and safe decisions.
That way you can approve websites that they can access and allow them to bookmark those websites.
You can guide them how to do an appropriate online behavior and at the same time you can monitor your child’s conversations with their friends.

The third step is by blocking the access to inappropriate websites.
Probably, your children may disagree about what is appropriate and what is not, but you have the full control and you also have the responsible over their safety.

Provide some time to browsing and searching for information about parental control software that can give to control to block or unblock certain websites.
Try not to leave your children alone when they are online and don’t let them chat with stranger

Another step is to teach your children not to spread personal information such as school information, name, home address, phone number under any circumstances,
Performing all of these steps is not going to be easy but definitely it will teach your children important things and keep them safe.

An error in computer sometimes generates different effects such as pop ups, entire system are suddenly shut down. When this happens, you can loose your data.

We can correct a computer error, but we cannot avoid having errors in our computer.

When a computer error shows up, the important thing for us to do is to understand what the errors are, how to fix it and understand how to minimize the error in the future.
If we don’t have the ability to fix it on our own, we need an experts help. But, for sure is that we recognize the error to get the correct problem solving.

Computer errors are mostly generated because there is a conflict between commands.

Computer is essentially operates by serial commands. But, it will be generating an error when a command conflicts with the other command or when a command is asking for and information or a process that does not available.

A simple example of this typical error is when a user tries to operate an application that is not compatible with the operating system.

Most software are included with a user guide, inside that user guide there is a list of system requirements, which indicates what a computer needs to have, so that the software can work properly.
To minimize an error then you should follow the instructions given in the user guide and verify that your computer meets the minimum requirements.

A program that requires 32 MB of free memory, will generates an error if the amount of free memory in your computer is less than 32 MB.

Some programs sometimes are using a shared common files, an error will be generated when this shared files is not updated or missing.

As an example, if you install a program, let’s say Program A and later you install Program B that uses the shared files from Program A that you’ve installed previously. Later on, when you run Program B, it will generate error because the shared files that installed with Program A is outdated.
To fix this error than you must download an update version of the shared files.

A computer error can also be generated because of a missing drivers or incorrect driver version.

These errors can be resolved by updating the drivers.

These errors can be reduced if you are setting the software to update automatically.

As for the whole system, make sure to update continuously or set to update automatically

This article is only discussing common errors of a computer or software. For a specific error problem you may refer to software documentation. As most computer software will be equipped with a documentation.

Hello… nice to have you back on this site, I will continue the discussion in Part 1.
Ok then, lets start….

Minimize, Restore and Exit buttons.
These buttons will allow you to minimize an application’s screen, restore the application to the original size or shutting down the application.
These buttons usually located on the top right corner of a program.

Scroll bar.
This button is used to move up and down or change between pages. Usually this button is placed in the right side of an application.

Status bar.
It is used to display a small message and to show the progress of a task or command. In most programs, it is located at the bottom of the user interface.

Context menu.
When perform a right click on your mouse, a menu will be displayed. That is a context menu.

A context menu is commonly used as a shortcut command.

Input box.
Input box is a small rectangle, usually use to input a set of data in a program interface. As an example when you open up your web based email, then you must enter your username and password into a rectangle box, that is an input box.

If you have a problem regarding this input box, then you might present the exact type of information to the technical support by calling it an input box so the problem can be directly solved.

Button.
A rectangle box that can be click, and when you click on this rectangle box, it perform a process. As an example when you to print your document, after pressing the Print menu and then followed by the OK button, your document start to be printed.

When the color of the text in the button is gray out as it seems like inactive and nothing happens if you click on it, then a problem occurs.

Check box.
A small box that indicates multiple choices, such when you are completing a registration form then you were asked to select your hobby, several choices will be provided in that form.

By the time you click on it, a small ‘x’ will be displayed inside the box.
Radio button.

Almost the same as a check box, but radio button indicates a single choice.
Problems with check box and radio button are almost the same, which is if you click on that button there is no reactions.

If you try to describe the problems with your software to a technical support, make sure you mention the parts correctly to get a proper problem solving.

When you are having problems with your computer software, sometimes you will need the help of a technician, the first rescue will be done by phone or live chat, or whatever media that doesn’t require the technician to come into your place. The technician will guide you step by step to resolve the problem.

In order to get the right analysis, the technician will need to know what is the problem.
In this first step, it will be your part to explain the technician what the problem persist.
To get the proper help, then you must describe the problem in details. The main problem is when you can’t describe the problem in details just because you don’t knowing how to do it.

If it happens, you can’t expect your problems solved by the technical support.

Through this article, I will describe the correct names for the most common components of software. I hope later on, you can understand and describe briefly to a technical support when you are having problems with your software. By describing in details you can expect good analysis and problem solving from technical support.

User Interface.
It contains squares, boxes, buttons, words and icons. This is the visual design of a program.

As an example you may see a warning message that pops up in a square box in the user interface of your software, when you are experiencing insufficient memory.

Title bar.
Most programs will use this part to display its name or describe in what section of the program you are currently.

You may see a wrong description if the program is incorrectly coded. But, this rarely happens.

Menu bar.
In this part, user can see the menu items and options.

Most common programs will have File commands, Open commands, Save commands and Print commands in this section

An error example in this section is if a menu that must work but can’t be click or its color is light gray.

Tool bar.
This part can be recognized because it contains icons. Usually it is placed on the top of the interface.

When you are clicking the icon, it will execute a certain command.

The problems persist in this section is uncommon. If you click on the icon but nothing happens, then you can describe the problem by referring the icon’s name or the toolbar’s name.

Well, I hope you are not getting bored with this long explanation.
Please allow me to take a break for this part.
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