It's Time To Start Studying For The A+ Certification

  If you are thinking of becoming a computer repair technician I would start studying for your A+ Certification as soon as possible. The A+ Certification is generally needed today if you want to work as a computer technician. Most good companies will require it. If you come across a company and they don't care if you have it chances are they won't be paying you proper wages. Believe me I know of such places and ones that promise you a good increase if you get the A+ Certification. You then pass the tests and they just keep blowing you off in the hopes that you will forget about it. My advise is if you are in this situation, find another job.

  There are plenty of excellent good books to study from before you go and take the test. Comp Tia A+ Certification is one of those good examples of an excellent book to buy to use to study for the test. You can always go with one of the A+ Certification for dummies books to study from. They are generally made easier to study from for the individual. I still have mine from a few years ago. Unfortunately in my position I was told that even if I got it I would not get any kind of a raise. I did find out that other individuals were getting raises for getting their A+ Certification. All I can say is nice company. You may guess what I am in the process of at this time.

  There are various places that are free on the internet where you can study tutorials online for no cost. The only cost involved is your time. There are also websites that provide videos or lectures on studying for your A+ Certification. Again all it costs you is your time to watch and listen. I have done various certifications on different products through out the years in my career. Some of the time it was studying the material from Hewlett Packard and taking the test online. As far as the A+ Certification goes you study and then go and take the test at a specific location when you are ready. You can not take the test online at this time.
  Some other advise would be that after you achieve your A+ Certification don't stop there. I would think of what other part of the field of computers you are interested in and go for it. Whether you are interested in security, networking of whatever you may want to pursue. Once again there are various different websites out there to study from for whatever your career path may be. All it takes is your time and some effort. One of my favorite websites to visit for studying is at this link http://www.professormesser.com/ .  Here is another website for excellent free training http://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/course/comptia-a-plus-2012 . There are also plenty of websites where you can also take free A+ Certification tests to see if you are ready to pass the test.
  Well that is all for now. Thank You for reading.

Help My Computer Won't Log On To My Profile

  This is a common problem with viruses today. You were on your computer the night before and everything was okay. You start your computer the next day and when you try to log on to your profile it kicks you back out. The user profile failed to log on is the typical message that you may receive. So what are you going to do at this point. On almost every computer that this is happening I have found it to be a virus. There is also that slim chance that a power interruption or brownout may have occurred.  This can cause corruption to the registry, damage to the motherboard, other components in the system or corruption to the software. Well you have a few different choices. The first obvious thing to determine is did you in fact have a power failure. If you did I would inspect your motherboard for any signs of damage such as popped leaking capacitors.

Bad Leaking Capacitors

  The next step is could it be a virus, malware or a piece of unwanted software that got into the system. First try booting to the safe mode with networking. I would also download some virus cleaning tools off the internet. Create a folder for example on a USB Flash Drive and copy all these virus cleaning programs to it.  I would suggest combofix ( unless it is windows 8.1), Free Malwarebytes, Spybot 2.4 and tdsskiller.exe from kaspersky's website. Copy them over to the desktop and run then in this order Tdsskiller, Combofix, Free Malwarebytes( make sure to update it) and Spybot 2.4 Portable. Reboot the computer when instructed by the program. Reboot especially after running Combofix because it run Rkill to stop various items in the system. There are other virus programs that you can download and run such as Super AntiSpyware Portable and Eset Online Scanner.
  If you can not enter the safe mode either, then try going to a command prompt after pressing the F8 key on your keyboard. You will need to know a little about dos to select the folder where you save these programs. You can run each program rebooting when necessary. If the computer does boot properly update your virus software and run a full scan on the system. This may or may not solve the problem with the log on. If you can get into a different administrator account you could create another profile and move your data to it, then delete the old profile. Just remember to run the Virus Cleaning Programs on all profiles to remove any infections.
  If you can not get into the system by any of the above virus cleaning methods, then there is a registry fix for this problem. This probably the best link to go to from Microsoft to repair the users log on profile http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215 . Here is another link to a website with instructions on how to repair the log on profile http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3495216/how-fix-corrupt-user-profile-in-windows-7/ . Just copy and paste the web address in to your address bar and press enter. The second website is the same information as the first, but will have ads. Follow all the instructions that they give you. Reboot the computer and see if you can now log on. If you can log on properly be sure to run all the virus cleaning programs. Make sure that you have a good up to date Virus Cleaning Program  installed on you computer. I have seen too many times where the virus program has expired.
  I hope this information is helpful. Also if you are not comfortable with doing this check your local computer store for whatever virus cleaning they may provide. Just check out any reviews on the computer store for any bad experiences. It does happen from time to time.
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Are Solid State Hard Drives Going To Come Down In Price

  I have been doing some searching on the internet and it looks like the prices of  Solid State Hard Drives  are slowly coming down. It would be nice to make them more affordable for the general public. In the beginning when we first saw the solid state hard drive they were extremely expensive. I myself have noticed that they did drop a little where I work. At this point and time if you can afford a solid state hard drive they will make somewhat of an improvement in speed. They function very well as the boot drive in any system. I would just recommend a good power supply running 650 watts or more. Especially if you are running more than one hard drive or two optical drives.

• Highest-quality components and engineering from the #1 memory manufacturer

• Worry-free data security with AES 256-bit full-disk encryption

• No moving parts means no hard drive spin ups, no noise and superior data protection

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• Sequential Read Speed 540 MB / Sequential Write Speed 520 MB / Random Read Speed 97K / Random Write Speed 66K

  In 2011 the average cost of a solid state hard drive was $2.42 per Giga Byte of hard drive space. It would have cost about $250.00 for a 100GB solid state hard rive. At Newegg.com you can find a 256GB Samsung Solid State Hard Drive for about $169.00, which is not too bad of a price. On the higher end you will find 800GB Solid State Hard Drives costing in the thousands of dollars. This maybe appropriate for computer in a business environment, but not for the general computer user. My advise is to stay with a sata hard drive due to cost verses the amount of hard drive space.
  Right now a 1TB Sata 3.5 inch at Newegg will cost about $70 and a 2TB Sata Hard Drive runs around $90 Dollars. So if you are looking for a solid state hard drive I would check out Newegg. I have used them many times and never had a problem. Outside of Newegg I would search Amazon and Ebay. I have also found some very good prices there as well. So what is the best brand of Solid State Hard Drive  on the market today. From looking at reviews it looks like Samsung is one of the best brands available. The other popular brands that I have seen are Plextor,  Vector and Neutron.
  So whatever your choice is I would check as many reviews as you can find on the internet for a particular solid state hard drive. Check out the good or bad reviews on the reseller or dealer you may be thinking of purchasing the hard drive from. A very good place to check out a reseller on the internet is resellerratings.com where you may be able to locate helpful information.
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