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I am waiting for the official launch of Windows 7 and planning to upgrade my notebook. My current notebook Dell 600m is already 5 years old. Few cracks appeared both sides of the notebook. Not sure how long it gonna last.

I need to do more multitasking and play with virtualization.

Doesn’t matter whether it is a hardware or software. Try to undo the change to the state before the problem occurred.

You maybe just inserted a new PCI-e graphic card into your computer or upgrading the memory. Try remove the hardware first and try again.

Or, it happened after you updated your Windows, installed new software or deleted some files in your computer.

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You keep thinking why it does not work all the time and wondering what went wrong since last time it was working. The clock is ticking.

One of the fundamental in troubleshooting the computer is checking the all cabling such as network cable, power cable, telephone cable or audio cable.

By eliminating this, you can start focusing on other things.

According my personal statistics, about more 50% of the problems are solved by restarting the computer.

It is also applies to the application problems such Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office applications, business applications etc.

By restarting, some of the cache will be cleared and refreshed.

The funny thing is that even sometimes you don’t even to know the problem but you can solve it by restarting your computer.

Other problem such as internet connectivity issue can also be solved by restarting the modem and the router.

Exception to this rule, you cannot restart something that is still running in the memory. Eg. a running router and a database server.