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		<title>Fix Laptop Overheating Shutdown Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overheating and related shutdown problems are very common in laptops, especially in home use.  Common symptoms include some or all from this list; - Laptop is extremely hot to the touch, especially around the fan area - Fan seems to be running constantly, and at high speed - Laptop shuts off by itself when doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phone call from &#8216;Microsoft&#8217; about virus is a scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you receive a phone call claiming to be from &#8216;Microsoft&#8217; or someone claiming to work on their behalf, telling you that you have a virus on your computer which they will help you fix over the phone, It Is A Scam. Hang up the phone, do not let them have remote control access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/phone-call-from-microsoft-about-virus-is-a-scam/</link>
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		<title>Defragment your hard disk easily using JKDefrag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over time, the hard disk on your computer can become very disorganised.  Files get written to the disk, some get deleted, more files get written, and so on.  Every time a file gets deleted, the space it occupied is available to be reused.  But if the new file you want to write is too large to be written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/defragment-your-hard-disk-easily-using-jkdefrag/</link>
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		<title>External Hard Disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few external hard disks that we recommend. At the time of writing, all of these products are available at Amazon.co.uk Seu browser não suporta iframes.1. Western Digital Elements 1TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive &#8211; Black Manufacturer: Western Digital Capacity: 1TB (approx 1000 Gigabytes) &#8211; other sizes available Connections: USB 2.0 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/external-hard-disks/</link>
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		<title>How to Reflow a Laptop Motherboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a Reflow? The term &#8216;reflow&#8217; describes a process of briefly melting (reflowing) the solder on an electrical circuit board. Why would you perform a Reflow on a laptop? The solder used in laptop motherboards tends to degrade over time, becoming brittle and weak. It can change from being a solid block of solder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/how-to-reflow-a-laptop-motherboard/</link>
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		<title>CrystalDiskInfo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CrystalDiskInfo is a great little free tool for checking the general health of your hard drive.  It works by reading the S.M.A.R.T. data off your hard disk and displays it in a simple graphical format.  It can work with internal or external hard disks, with either IDE (ATA/PATA) or SATA connectors, and it even works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/crystaldiskinfo/</link>
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		<title>Fix for a missing CD or DVD drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you find that your CD or DVD drive no longer appears in My Computer and you can&#8217;t read or write to disks, there is a known Windows registry fix that could help you. Of course, you should first check that the drive is properly connected, just in case. This Windows registry fix is based on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/fix-for-a-missing-cd-or-dvd-drive/</link>
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		<title>Why you should shut down your computer and not just press the off button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our repair shop, we are sometimes asked by customers if there is any harm in shutting down their computer by just pressing the power button for a few seconds, rather than going through the Windows shutdown procedure. As far as the customer in concerned, the end result appears to be the same, the computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/why-you-should-shut-down-your-computer-and-not-just-press-the-off-button/</link>
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		<title>How to Create a System Restore point in Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You should find that System Restore is turned on by default, creating restore points automatically on a regular basis, but in case you want to create a manual System Restore point, perhaps just after a virus cleanup, here&#8217;s how to do it. There are a lot of different routes to the System Restore setup screen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerrepairtips.net/how-to-create-a-system-restore-point-in-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>Finding drivers for unknown devices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After installing and setting up a fresh copy of Windows, there are times when you check the Device Manager and you see the little yellow exclamation point meaning a driver hasn&#8217;t been installed for a device. If the driver isn&#8217;t on a driver disk, and maybe you don&#8217;t have a copy of the driver because [...]]]></description>
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