Computer Spot

During the course of your experience as a Windows computer user, you must have undoubtedly come across a lot of errors and system failures.

You may have spent a lot of time and energy in chasing after the computer experts, only to see the errors recur. Well, we are here to tell you that errors related to Windows files can be handled fairly easily by the average computer user.

In this article, we provide a brief description of various types of files found on a Windows system, and we explain how to rectify errors associated with them.

A few examples of different types of file extensions

You might already be aware of the .txt and .doc files, but there are several other file formats that are important from a practical point of view. Read the rest of this entry →

Computer error messages have an uncanny ability to annoy you and make you feel helpless at the same time.

The reason they are so annoying is that they may pop up when you are doing an important task.

They make you feel helpless because they use confusing error codes which they expect you to remember or decipher and are not helpful in communicating what has gone wrong.

The coders who devise these carelessly written error messages forget that ideally an error message must meet 3 important criteria:

1. A message should explain clearly “what the problem is”.

2. It should identify potential causes of the problem.

3. It should suggest possible solutions to the problem.

In order to deal with the computer errors on your own, you need to spend some time to understand a few common causes of error messages and how you can deal with them. Read the rest of this entry →