So for all of those who read Help Desk Geek, you probably have noticed that most of my articles are over 500 words and include lots of images. I’ve always found that this way of writing helps beginners understand tech stuff more easily.
But there are also many occasions where a full article is not needed. [...]

The speed of your hard disk is a major factor in your system’s overall performance as much as its capacity. After all, the faster it’s able to find data and transfer it, the quicker Windows will load, the faster your virtual memory (i.e. pagefile) will be, and the less time it will take to start [...]

It was recently announced that comcast is limiting bandwidth usage to 250 GB a month per customer because   they are crying out loud that their pipes can’t handle the load some Internet abusers produce. They claim the normal Internet user only use 3 GB of bandwidth a month? Who are those users? My grandma?

I often wonder about the skills an IT person should have to be actually called “IT person” I often see people that call themselves IT people, but lack the basic IT stuff. In this list I compiled 10 IT skills a person should have to be legitimately called an IT person. IT managers, check your [...]

How much would you pay if you had to buy back what’s on your computer hard drive when the computer crashes?   If you keep 20 GB of music and other things like memorable pictures, or videos of your already grown up children etc. probably you will be willing to shell out a few hundred [...]

What will you do with that big monster CRT monitor seating at your desk when you finally get it of it? If you are like most of us, it probably will end up at the sidewalk or the trash dumpster hoping someone will pick it up or the trash truck will demolish it to bring [...]