Drop your bags, fix a drink, and grab the Windows CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the ...

Knowing the difference between HDMI and USB qualifies me as the local tech “expert,” so folks often invite me around to fix their computer problems. I’ll let you into a little secret, though: Most of ...

The holidays are quickly approaching, and if you’re the one that gets stuck fixing your grandma’s computer while everyone else socializes at the family gathering, we salute you. Here’s how to fix it ...

Computer screens, like any component of a computer system, work or fail to work because of a series of possible factors: the input from the computer, the settings on the screen, and the performance of ...

You can fix many software problems with your computer, provided you have access to it. Some disruptions, however, disable your ability to fix them. This occurs ...

Most of the time, updating the software can fix the issue. Start by making sure your computer itself has all available updates installed. Sometimes the updates for your monitor can come from the ...

If you’re a ProfHacker, there’s a chance that you will get asked on occasion to help someone else fix their computer. That can be hard enough if you’re sitting next to the person—after all, you never ...

I moved my Applications folder to another drive, then moved it back to my boot drive. Somewhere in the shuffle, the file type association of the Desktop (~/Desktop) got reassigned to Terminal (weird, ...