Basic Diagnosis Guidelines for Your PC

Simone is exasperated. It has to work at the university, but her office PC and its not working properly. For example: She would like to open a single Internet Explorer window but a whole series of windows are open. Simone is not alone when it comes to this sort of problem. As a matter of fact, most of us will come across these types of problems in our lives. When you fall sick you go to the doctor and he / she asks a few questions, and taking a look at your case history before giving any medication for you. Similarly, you have to find out what, s wrong with your PC before treating it, if she's working on an abnormal way. This article will help you in finding what, s disturbing your PC.

The first sign that tells us that your computer has a problem is an error message. For example you get a pop-up box on your screen, a message window, asking you to send an error report and says the application will close now. Error messages just tell you that something is wrong so that you can then work on getting to the cause of the problem. When you get an error message try to analyze the situation about what you do when you receive it. Enter the code error. At times error messages can be very bewildering. For example: you want to open some files, but it, s saying that another application is using this specific folder. If you get error messages like this then it is time to question some of your recent activities such as:
* Have you installed any software or hardware recently?
* Did you install anything from the Internet?

If you have installed any software and your PC after it has become unstable, by using System Restore you can remove any system changes that were made recently after your PC was working properly. It automatically creates restore points (or system checkpoints) when you make a change in the system. If your computer has become unstable after you make some changes, open system restore, choose a restore point, and return your computer to its previous stable state. To use the System Restore utility:

1. Click Start
2. Point the cursor to Programs.
3. Point to Accessories
4. Point to System Tools
5. ClickSystem Restore Wizard and follow the instructions.

If error messages or recent history of your PC does, Äôt provide more information for you, you have to explore your PC in some of these ways:

1. Scan you system for viruses, Trojan horses, spywares or other malwares.

2. Use a Process Explorer (freeware program) tool. Windows Task Manager shows that processes and files are being used and how much memory they are using, but some process names aren, Äôt clear. Process Explorer not only gives all this information for you but also tells you which application started a process and which resources that particular application is currently using. It also has a powerful search capability that quickly shows which processes have particular handles opened or loaded dlls so that you can close any unwanted application. Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 processors.

3. Go through the error log file created by Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson is a program that is used to help detect, debug, and log errors that are encountered while Windows or Windows programs are. It automatically creates a text file when an error is detected. When Windows 2000 error is introduced under the file "drwtsn32.log" or "user.dmp, and when running Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or ME the file is inserted at a stretch. WLG file and stored under Documents and SettingsAll WindowsDrwatson or UsersDocumentsDrWatson folder.

4. If you have a network related problem you can use a service network diagnostics tool system. You can run various tests using this so he can collect various types of information. It scans your system to see if you have network connectivity, and whether or not your network programs and services related to running.

Having gone through these basic procedures hopefully you will find that, your PC's disturbing, and once that is known you can commence treatment.