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10 reasons PC crashes you must know

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Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been  struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Microsoft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1.) Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself. If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices...

Start Blogging : 5 tips

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So, you've decided to start your own blog? It might be to share your expert  drawing tips  or just to drum up a bit of interest in your  design portfolio , but before you rush into anything, consider this: the web, and in particular the blogosphere, is a crowded place. With so many blogs out there, it's important to make sure you know how to start a blog that stands out from the crowd. Your blog needs to be attractive, creative, and clever. But more than that, your blog design needs to speak to your readers. It needs to tell them why you're different, what you're offering, and why they should take the time to read on. So, do you need to know how to start a blog that will attract and enthral? Here are 10 tips that will get you started then take your offering from interesting to inspirational... 01. Choose a blogging platform These days you're spoiled for choice when it comes to platforms, and most are free There are several blogging platforms out there from tradition...