When To Buy A Computer

If you're looking for a personal computer of your choice, never go in haste in buying one. Take a greater look for something worth for your money. Nevertheless, it's up to you take it or not, after all, it's your money. But think wisely, for once you brought a used PC you'll end spending too much on it.

However, if you want a second-hand desktop or laptop on a tight budget be sure you know what you were looking for. Search over the internet to choose what is best for you. Ask a friend who knows something about computer specifications and knows how to take a good eye on it. Don't be satisfied when a seller or an agent will say something about their offer. We know how marketing works when selling a product. And best of all, give yourself a time to think or search for another, a day or two. 

Bilal Ahmad wrote something about buying second-hand computer. He suggested to test it before buying. In his article he suggested some ideas on how to test a good computer. I find it sounds good to try his suggestions

But it is truly better to buy a brand new computer considering the warranty period as an advantage. Don't waste your money for used one with warranty or something like 3 or 6 months. I don't think any seller or agent will give you longer warranty for a used one. You can't rely on the used one while a brand new will last for five years or more depending on how you use it. With the new one, especially a latest model, you will certainly enjoy its highest performance. Although the price is too expensive but your money really worth it. 

The used one is good when you know how to troubleshoot or repair it yourself. Troubleshooting and maintaining a computer is the hard part I've seen with those who have putted up a small internet cafe that at the end losing all their money on repairs and maintenance then opt to sell it at a lower price. Same thing happened to us personally.

Personally, I advised my friends not to spend money on second-hand and don't recommend it either. Let say you have P5,000 plus in your budget, a used one may cost a little lower than that but with a brand new, adding P2,000 or higher, you can already buy an ECS or MSI motherboards with built-ins graphics, a CPU and 2GB Memory.

Think before we buy a second-hand computer.

Microsoft Security Essentials

First time I heard about this free anti-virus. I am just curious so i downloaded the said free anti-virus from microsoft. After the download, I tried to install it and i found out that it does not support Windows XP SP2. Meaning, I have to update my OS version to SP3. 

image source : Microsoft.com

Anyway, glad to hear about this from someone's article who was pretty much impressed with its performance. Glad to share it here too!

Remove Virus from your memory or USB

I've been once searching for the best way to remove virus from memory or USB. All I know is to use an anti-virus like AVG, Norton, Avira (Free Version) and some sort of it. But I don't really know a lot about hidden viruses. I need to know how to remove virus from removable devices other than the virus I usually encounter in my computer. A lot of people don't mind about viruses from their memory so when they connect it to another computer , it will automatically infect the said PC specially if no anti-virus is present. Unfortunately, you can't detect if you're infected or not unless you used an anti-virus. But still, using anti-virus is not a guarantee and it's impossible to eliminate them as well without learning how to really remove it. 

Now, I learned another idea from someone who freely shared it to us. It may seem basic, but I admit I really don't know about it. This is about the use of command prompt or CMD.

Take note about the image. So, to make hidden files appear, you have to type as shown above. If your memory is in drive I, just type DIR /ah. Then, files in that directory will appear as encircled above. Then, one by one make it to appear in the windows explorer by typing Attrib "FILENAME" -r -a -s -h. Type the exact format (considering Capital and small letters). Then, look into your windows explorer and you'll find all the files there.

Notice that when you see a file type as FILE FOLDER that's ok but when it is an APPLICATION TYPE, don't click and delete it if possible.

Hope This help.