Macintosh Computer Troubleshooting and Maintenance
 

 

Click Here: For Computer Troubleshooting Tips
This site contains many macintosh help tips that include step by step instruction along with fantastic graphics to help guide you.
 

New South Wales
At this site you will find troubleshooting and basic tips for your software.

Macfixit
This link contains a library that is a collection of troubleshooting-related freeware and shareware utilities.  The utilities are listed alphabetically for your convenience.

Support Index
Traveling to this site will allow you to access an incredible Support Index full of dozens of topics, ranging from Appleworks support to user manuals.  There is also an excellent search engine site under the heading, Knowledge Base.

Downloads
At this unique site you may use the search engine provided to search for downloads.  Also, there are links to see the most recently posted updates, explained language codes, older software downloads, along with a help site for commonly seen error messages.


 

Macintosh Utilities
Venturing here will take you to category lists of top tools tested and opinions to go along with them.  The lists are based on over 100 years of Macintosh experience, with serious Real World tests and results.
 
 

Important Utilities

Disk Drivers:Apple's Drive Setup


This drive setup ensures that your Macintosh will run as stable as possible.  It is a utility that creates and maintains the underlying structure and format of your hard disk drives and other media.
 

File Recovery Program/Directory Care:  DiskWarrior


This is the safest, most technologically advanced, and most powerful utility to prevent and eliminate directory damage available for any computer.  Instead of patching the original directory, it quickly builds a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory thereby recovering files and folders you thought were lost.
 

Optimization and Defragmentation:DiskExpress Pro

Using this utility will double the speed of your Macintosh hard disk by adapting to the way you work on your computer in your own specific environment.  It monitors daily file usage to determine the absolute optimum placement of files on the hard disk.
 

Virus: Agax


Agax is an expandable free Macintosh antivirus program that offers standard virus scanning facilities and more advanced background protection, so your computer isn't infected in the first place.
 

PC Troubleshooting and Maintenance

Tips, tricks, and traps! This link leads you to a wonderful table of contents that contains:  common computer misconceptions, explanations of each computer system component, directions on how to assemble your computer system, basic troubleshooting, and a new reference guide of computer acronyms and terms for beginners!

PC Technology Guide is a site that will help guide you through the different components of a computer, its storage areas, its multi-media extras, its input/output connections, and general communication tools.

A down-to-earth troubleshooting guide for IBM PCs. Look at the table of contents on the left and click on PC Maintenance. Then click on Maintenance Schedule to see what maintenance you should be doing for your PC and how often. You can then click on each item under How To to get directions for how to do each of these maintenance items.  After reviewing this information, you should know that you need to regularly do a scan disk and a defrag.

Still confused about how to do a scan disk or defrag for your IBM PC?  This site actually shows you screen shots of how to do a defrag and scan disk. This will work for Windows 95 or Windows 98.

PC Worldis a great site that is updated regularly with newsletters.  It contains links that lead to personal firewalls to help protect your PC and data, links to sites with solutions to bugs, and many newsletters with helpful tips.

Tech Support Guyis a free service that will answer questions concerning IBM compatible software, especially Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and NT.
 
 

PC and Mac Technical Guides and Support

Technical guides and supportsis a category located in yahoo.  It contains links to the 10 most popular guides and support sites, in addition to approximately 60 other support service sites listed in alphabetical order with descriptions!

This is the Teaching and Learning Academy Site Map. Look under technical help to find excellent troubleshooting links. Some of the sites ask a question in the format that a teacher would probably ask you, and then you can click on a link to see if you knew how to answer the question.