Monday, December 31, 2012

Bring On Two Monitors With The Aid Of A Video Card And A Motherboard Port



Some users often try to attach another monitor on to their computer to avail various sorts of operations. In such situations it’s awful to call up the IT support team for assistance as they are going to break your bank for helping you out with these issues. This isn’t a difficult job to do as installing two monitors with a video card and a mother board port is does not involve a lot of technical knowledge. If you have ever cleaned a CPU, then that is all the experience you will need.
If you come under the category of Windows users who isn’t satisfied with one monitor, look up your tool kit to install another monitor under the same video card. In fact many Windows users misinterpret that it’s not possible to enable two monitors under a single video card and a motherboard port, but it isn’t so. Just go through the following set of pointers to see your work done.
Instructions
Wind up all the ongoing activities in your system and shutdown your computer by going to the shut down menu that lies inside the startup menu. When the PC has powered down, remove the plugs attached to the power plug.

Open up the covering provided to your central processor unit by removing the screws attached behind CPU. These screws are often placed right next to the aeration vent and are of the Phillips-head kind of screws. Removing those screws will allow you to detach the casing from the CPU- exposing the brain behind the entire system.

Pick out the video card slots installed on your CPU and insert a PCI, AGP and ePCI video card. Just make sure that you have inserted the card that is compatible to a Windows system.

Place the new video card into the slot available on your motherboard. However, if there is a video card inside it, detach it by removing the screws attached to it and pick out the card from the video card slot.

Now place the new video card in to the vacated slot on your mother board and screw it to position firmly inside the slot.

Again, install the casing of the CPU, plug in all the cables in to socket and power up the system once again.


For more assistance, avail the remote desktop assistance from the Microsoft team which provides excellent IT support.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Guidelines to revise your Windows XP


Eleven years ago Microsoft launched what is considered to be the world’s best operating system brand; the tech giants called it the Microsoft Windows XP. Ever since its release, Microsoft has released updates for this OS regularly- eleven years is a long time and there has been great progress in the technology front since. Even now there are users who like to use a XP installed PC rather than going for a new or advanced operating system. The positive aspect about Windows XP is that, it can be updated from the Microsoft official website by enabling the “Automatic Update” feature. With an Internet Explorer installed on your Computer, you can get this done with ease. However, you should have an internet explorer with a version 5 or above. It isn’t confusing or a tedious process, just tag around the following instructions shaped up by the Microsoft support crew to update your Windows XP
Follow these leads:
Facilitate Automatic Updates in Windows XP
Press the “On” button of your CPU and wait until your computer boots up with your desired settings.
Once your computer is ready for use, scroll down and click the "Start" tab that the lies at the bottom your Windows XP desktop interface to bring up the startup menu
From the start up menu, hit the "Control Panel" tab to open up the Control Panel interface. The control panel will allow you to access various applications installed on your computer.
From the listed programs, pick out the "System" tab which lies just above the center of the Control Panel window.
Inside the systems window you will be able to find the "Automatic Updates" tab that will allow the OS installed in your system to stay updated.
Then move the slider to change the radio button to "Turn On Automatic Updates" status.
Updating Windows XP from Microsoft Windows Update Website
Launch the Internet Explorer installed on your computer by clicking on the IE icon which lies on your desktop.
Plot a course to the “windowsupdate.Microsoft.com” website and hang around until the website site identifies the browser installed on your computer.
Now tag along the on-screen guidelines as prompted by the installation wizard to download and install updates released for Windows XP by Microsoft Inc.
These instructions should be sufficient to update your Windows XP. However, if you need more technical backup, get in touch with the technical professionals in Microsoft support panel.