How to Find Solutions to Fix 10 Common Computer Annoyances?

Now, there's seldom one who has never used computer. With its increasing convenience, easy operations, and fast speed, hi - tech applications, and more advantages it bring to us, no one is unfamiliar with PC. While "every coin has two sides", we also suffer or are suffering the inconvenience and annoyances by computers. Let's fix these computer annoyances one by one.

Top 10 computer Annoyances

10. PC slows down


Recently, the start time is slower than before...what happens? I scanned viruses by anti - virus program but found nothing. How to accelerate the computer's speed by fixing this kind of problem? Actually, when we realized this problem, our Windows Registy may overload trash. Windows Registry is a record sheet of our software, hardware, users and preferences. When we install and uninstall software, it will record and some software could be contained even if it has been removed from system. After overtime installation and uninstall, the registry would be corrupted thus causes our PC slower and slower.


There are two ways to fix Registry errors - one is set manually and the other is with the help of registry cleaners. To fix Registry error manually, you should launch "Run" (click "Start" and find this selection) - input "cmd" and press "Enter" - a dialogue shows up and then type "regedit" - click "OK" - a new windows shows, then select "File" - "Export" - "Save" - create a name of your registry file. This is a backup of your registry - you can view your computer configurations by left side of registry editor window; Click on the plus sign to expand a section of the registry editor. A "well-used" area for anyone manually deleting registry files is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", which is the area of registry changes of hardware and software.

If you are not familiar with this operation, you can employ a registry cleaner to help you fix registry errors, for example, Registry Mechanic and SpeedUpMyPc. Wanna learn more information? There is a section of our site: Registry and here are some guides: Improve Startup Speed, Remove Junk File, Optimize Startup with SpeedUpMyPc, monitor Disk Usage and so forth.

9. Infected by Spyware

Recently, a modern but really bored word often appears, could you infer what it is? Yeah, the word is "Identity Theft". The danger is much more serious than we could image, which could cause you "disappear" from the Earth. I'm not joking - when your privacy is stolen by the thieves, all of yours are gone.

Spyware is a kind of these "Thieves" who peeks your privacy and then wait for the timing to steal. To avoid such condition, do remember not to download suspectous soft and refuse the unknown toolbar to be installed in your Internet Explorer or other browsers.If you feel there is something wrong with your computer, do a scan at first - download our picked anti - spyware applications.

8. Too Many Duplicate Files

A duplicate file is hardly to find and it cannot cause serious problems, while do you really know how many dupes in your PC?

Before I used a duplicate file finder tool, I was very confident no dupes contained in my computer. Too many duplicate files could take large space and some of them are useless - a duplicate file is different from a backup, for it is carelessly created by us while backup is carefully created by us. Want to know how many dupes you have? Download a duplicate file finder to check.

7. Forgot Passwords due to some Reason

To set password is common, for it's quite secure to protect our privacy, however, too many passwords are hard to remember them -how about your MS Office password, mailbox password(s), certain registered member logon password(s), or password(s) of chat tools?If you are lucky enough, you may remember all of them; while could you ensure that you won't forget all some day? Oh, I forget to say that passwords should be set to be mixed with letters and numbers, otherwise they will be easily decrypted by hackers.

Last month, I forgot a chat tool password as I hadn't used it for over a month. I totally forgot the answer and there was no useful hint to retrieve (sometimes, the hint doesn't help). When I was disappointed and decided to throw this account, a friend helped me with password recovery tools. There are almost all kinds of password recovery tools - recover MS Office password, MSN password, PDF password, even E - mail password. OK, if you are suffering this, click here.

6. No Content Filter for Children

There are an increasing number of children netizens - is it a good or bad thing? The advantages in that children could recognize our world easilier and earlier than we did, and they may be fond of searching knowledge by themselves. The disadvantages is there are adult contents which are harm to them. Since there isn't any Internet content filter contained in our Operating Systems, it's a hot potato for parents to solve this problem.



Thanks to software pulishers, there are several tools designed to filter Internet pornography or fierce. These Internet Content Filters could let children view webpage with clean and no adult content at all!

5. Hard Drive Disks Disorder and full of programs

Why is the document opened so late? It takes me almost 40 seconds! Do not complain about your PC's performance - such condition may cause by your carelessness. Have you ever noticed your hard drive disks and give them a "shower"? As I mentioned above, try not to install and uninstall program so frequently, which will slow your PC. Also, your hard drive disks, like your folders, need clean now and then.



Windows Disk Defrag is Microsoft own product for cleaning hard drive disks, which is a good helper; while the scanning speed as well as defrag is a little time - consuming to wait. You can also use other Disk Defrag tools, for example, Diskeeper 2008 Professional Edition, PC Washer, and UltraDefrag - they are easy and fast to clean and keep your files in order, have a try!

4. Incompatible issues - Especially in Windows Vista

I don't mean to criticize the works (Vista OS) of Microsoft, on the contrary, I appreciate the Aero effect of Vista. While this eye candy effect causes software incompatible, which brings many inconvenience to Vista users: there are many programs cannot work! So Vista users have to pay attention to download tools - keep an eye to the sign "Compatible with Vista":

3. Disappointing Search Results by Google

Google is quite a useful search engine to find almost everything we wanna get. While sometimes, the results aren't the accurate or precise ones - some words are separate thus the results won't satisfy us. It would take us long time to filter and find what we would like to refer to.

Quite tired now? Let's download a tool to filter and find more concrete information for us! CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension, which is good at filter information from Google. Download CustomizeGoogle now!

2. Lack of Memory

This problem is very common and may not cause your attention. While we should watch out how many applications running at the same time, which could help us reduce the crash times of PC and keep our PC performs better. In order to see how many programs are running meanwhile, press "Ctrl+Alt+DEl" to see how much the usage of CPU is and you can also know the amount and state of running programs.

We should pay attention to this problem, though it seems easy to solve and nothing destroyed, however, this is a reason that would cause PC's unease.

1. Crashes

It's the most annoying thing when we are informed by the operating system: "this application has unexpected quit...." Ouch! My file! Haven't saved! Oh no!!!!

See? Crashes may happen every single second, and there is no obvious sign to inform you. The most frustrated thing is forget to save our works. Then, the solution to crashes, not complex, just save your every single works minute by minute; or download the latest patch for our operating systems from the official websites.