Month: February 2011
Tutorial: how to understand and troubleshoot Windows’ Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with BlueScreenView
Today we’ll go inside that blue window that most of times it’s mainly useless and cryptic, saying that something bad has happened to our OS, but what it was exactly it’s still a mystery for us. It’s a way to shutdown immediately the OS before further problems can happen. First thing to say, when Windows…
Tutorial: How to Manually Remove Viruses from your Windows machine
When you see unexpected things on your machine the first thing you think is that your system is infected. The second thing is probably: “why my antivirus/antispyware/antiwhatever hasn’t recognized the problem?”. Maybe it’s not a virus; it’s just your OS that is not working well. So the best thing to do is to check manually…
Ubuntu: Restore / Refresh Gnome settings
Spent some time doing “cool experiments” with your Gnome environment? Icons cannot be changed anymore, fonts are not appearing as they should, windows graphic has become messy… Well think it’s good time to remove all those “messy changes” and start from the scratch with a default Gnome environment. To find out what is wrong because…