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Diagnostic and repair services:
Surfing on the internet today with a computer that is not properly protected will result in your computer downloading malware that will invade your computer.  In an instant, your computer can slow down or you can get unwanted pop ups. Hardware failures could cause your computer to stop working and not boot up at all. Here is how I can help:

Installation/Upgrade services:

Networking:

Networking is an essential part of both the home and business computing environments.  I have extensive experience in all forms of computer networking for both wired and wireless networks.  I also can supply a full line of networking components from a simple modem to routers, switches, and gateway devices.

• Setup your network to share internet access through a single wireless router. 
• Service includes:
• Check if encryption is enabled
• Check to see if your SSID broadcasting is enabled
• Examine the PC for file sharing programs
• Check to see if the firewall is enabled
• If its not secured, we will secure it and network 1 PC
• Customer Pre-requisites: Working high speed internet connection required

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Free Malware Detection/Removal Software:

Trend Micro House call	***scan and remove threats
Spyware Doctor Anti virus	***scan and remove threats
Superantispyware	***scan and Remove Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, Key loggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products
BitDefender Scan Online	***scan and remove threats
F-Secure Online Scanner	***scan for rootkits as well
eTrust Anti virus Web Scanner	***scan and remove threats
Symantec Security Check	***scan and remove threats
Kaspersky Online Scanner	scan only no removal
Panda Activescan	scan only no removal
McAfee Activescan	scan only no removal
TrojanScan	A Trojan horse is a program that enters your computer undetected, giving the attacker unrestricted access to the data on your computer. Trojans can transmit credit card information and other confidential data in the background. Trojans are often not caught by virus scanning engines, because these are focused on viruses, not Trojans.

AVG Anti-Virus		Protect your computer from malware attacks.
Ad-Aware Anti-Malware		Protect your computer from malware attacks.
Spybot-Search & Destroy		Search your hard disk and Registry for security and privacy threats .
Advanced SystemCare		Protect, repair, optimize, and clean your computer in one click
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware		Detect and quickly remove malicious threats to your computer.
WinPatrol		Alerts you to hijackings, malware attacks and critical changes made to your computer without your permission

                                

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Free Utilities:

Ccleaner		CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
Smart Defrag		Defrag your hard drive in the background automatically.
Carbonite Online Backup		Easy Online Backup. Easy Recovery. Secure, almost free Unlimited Backup for $55/Yr.
Thunderbird Email Client		If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you will like the tabbed email. Thunderbird 3’s tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them.
Openoffice		A credible rival to MS Office, OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents.
Adobe-Reader		Adobe Reader lets you read and print from any system any document created as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file, with its original appearance preserved.
File-Extenions.org		A searchable, daily updated computer filename extension database with thousands of file extensions records. Every extension entry contains information about the file extension, a short description of the filetype, and programs that use them.
CoreTemp		A compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. It shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system. It's also completely motherboard independent. Now Windows Vista and Windows 7 ready! (x86 and x64)
Glary Utilities		Fix, speed up, maintain, and protect your PC.
Eraser		Erase data for good. Eraser can also completely wipe your hard drive. Eraser includes a Nuke Boot Disk feature. This creates a boot disk that can quickly erase an entire hard drive! That can come in handy when it's time to sell your computer. It works with Windows XP/Service Pack 3, Vista, and Windows 7. Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 can still be used with version 5.7 .
Microsoft Fixit software		Microsoft software that monitors your PC and automatically repairs common faults. Adds the automatic diagnostics system in Windows 7 to older versions of  Microsoft's operating system. Currently available as beta version for Windows XP and Vista. It also tries to anticipate how security updates will affect a PC before they are installed.
Ninite		The fastest, easiest way to get software. Ninite will automatically download and install multiple apps unattended and 100% hands-free.
Bootdisk.com		Create boot disks
Pandora Recovery		Find and Recover Deleted Files of Any Type - Free!  Use this version if your deleted files are on a memory card, secondary hard drive, or other external drive.
Remove Fake Windows Activation		Remove fake Windows Activation

Free Firewall:

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Helpful tips:
Because cable and DSL connections are Always on you will need a firewall to protect your PC, you can find a free firewall in our Firewall section.

Got a file that your computer cannot open? You probably got a message such as "Windows cannot open this file"  or "Cannot open PDF files" ? The basic problem is you need to identify a program that can open the file. Go to this link for help: filext.com

Top Undesirable Entries to remove from Windows startup :

1. 1.exe
2. msvcs.exe
3. lcxmntr.exe
4. RavMonE.exe
5. 3D Text.scr

The Golden Rule to help Prevent SPAM emails:
Never reply to a SPAM email
SPAM emails will almost always invite you to unsubscribe from their mailing list. This is a way for them to confirm your email address is real. It will offer a link, or it will say something like 'Reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject',  NEVER DO IT.

To avoid your email being picked up by email harvesting programs, when including your email address on a webpage (for example when you use a message board) try to obscure it. For example, use john AT yourprovider.com instead of using the @ symbol.

How can I report SPAM emails ?     
To actively do something about the SPAM problem by reporting any SPAM emails you receive, here is where to go:
The legislation covering SPAM emails is the CAN-SPAM ACT (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act).
To report any SPAM emails forward a copy of them to spam@uce.gov.

Outlook Express 2Gb limit problem:
Outlook Express stores emails in special files with .DBX extension. Every Outlook Express folder has its own file with DBX extension. For example, Inbox folder has a corresponding Inbox.dbx file. There is a 2Gb limit for every DBX file and that can cause some serious problems. The problem is that the users often use e-mail nowadays to exchange different files with each other. As a rule, these are documents, photos, music, videos, program files, etc. and all these files can cause your mailbox to eventually reach the 2Gb limit.

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When Outlook Express folder reaches its 2Gb limit you can't place any messages in it anymore. But the worst is that you can't delete any emails from this folder to make its size smaller. Actually there are two options for you to choose:

• to delete a corresponding DBX file and create a new empty one loosing all the messages stored in this file
  
• to use a special tool to repair your Outlook Express folder.

To solve the Outlook Express 2GB problem, do the following:

• Use Repair Tool for Outlook Express (download) to extract messages from the Outlook Express folder to Windows folder.
• Delete the Inbox.dbx file. At the next Outlook Express startup, the Inbox.dbx file will be recreated and of course it will be empty. To find out where Outlook Express stores DBX files, start Outlook Express and click "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Maintenance" -> "Store Folder".
• Then import your messages from the Windows folder to the Outlook Express folder. To import messages, just drag and drop them to the OE folder. Do not drag all files at once but do it in parts otherwise you will get the 2Gb problem again. For example, you can select about half of the messages in the Windows folder and drag them to the OE folder, then view these messages in Outlook Express and delete/move the unneeded ones. Then, similarly drag the remaining messages.

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Online Help:

www.cnet.com	Product reviews and prices, software downloads, and tech news - CNET
www.bleepingcomputer.com	Bleeping Computer - Computer Help and Discussion
www.komando.com	Free Tips, Downloads, Reviews, Software and advice
www.pchell.com	Great PC help site
www.computerhope.com	Get help with PC when it will not boot (Fails POST test)
www.mrplunger.com	My favorite Plumber

About Lane Computer Solutions:

I am your local computer repair and networking services company located in the Peachtree Corners area of Norcross. I come to your location. My rate is $50/hr, and does not vary according to the time of day. I do not have any trip charges or mileage. My time is billed while working on your problem. Free estimates, quick turnaround (Usually 48 hours or less for offsite repairs).
 
6196 Brookwood Road               
Norcross, Ga 30092 
(678)793-9186 

   
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