Technology is always moving forward; at times, it seems like it’s moving at the speed of light. With the constant innovation and moving ahead of technology, it can seem like it is becoming ever more complicated.
Today we are here to look at a few of those troublesome issues, and then show you why they aren’t so annoying after all.
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The Dreaded Virus
One of the pains of any inexperienced computer users life is the appearance of a virus. For a lot of people out there, the solutions generally involve throwing money at people to solve the problem.
If you are one of those people, you have paid for a solution that shouldn’t have cost you a penny. The first thing you want is, of course, antivirus software. Most people believe that antivirus software itself can work out expensive.
What if we were to tell you, not only is antivirus software not expensive you can get a hold of some decent software for free.
Unbelievably, the free solutions are actually on par, if not better than some of the packages you can pay an extortionate amount for.
The Frozen Computer
The frozen computer is something that has brought pain upon us all at some point. Freezing computers could have one of many issues, more often than not, if you PC freezes, it’s down to a hardware issue. In general, even a problem with hardware is a pretty simple fix for most. Taking to youtube and watching a few videos can generally arm you with the knowledge you require and save you a ton of cash.
Another freezing issue is less about freezing and more of a system not responding. Whether it be the spinning disc of windows or the spinning ball of mac, it’s just a matter of heading into activity monitor and smashing that kill process button. Well, ok it’s a little more complicated than that, but still relatively simple.
If you find that there is a particular process that keeps on bringing issues to your system, it may be a good idea to replace that software. You may from time to time find different versions of the software or the requirement for an update is the simplest of solutions.
The Slow Phone
One of the most common complaints with phones nowadays is that after some use, they tend to slow right down. This problem is generally down to the manufacturer’s cleverness.
With phone companies, they want you to upgrade your phone after a couple of years of use, so they throw out updates that are very RAM intensive. While you may have plenty of storage space on your phone, if the software has a specific RAM requirement, your phone runs very slowly.
There is a solution to this though. Especially for android phone. The first step you should take is to backup your phone. You should then proceed to set your phone back to an earlier version of android.
You will find this is easy to do, all you need to do it access your android boot menu.
