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I currently managed to obtain an upgrade on the internet connection I have from my ISP. I have a 521mb and I know that it is a very weak connection for our age. But can anyone help me to get the maximum out of my connection? What I mean is that, is there a way that I can further increase the speed of my internet ?

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I recently purchased a 500 GB hard disk and I have found that it has some issues with it. I purchased it from a retailer that assured to me that it was a new one. But having used it for a few days, I am beginning to think that it is a second hand one. How do I identify if the hard disk I am buying is new?

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I am currently updating a word file on Microsoft words 2010 and the word file which was initially created was not done by me. The issue I am having is that the file is in one font and when I try to change it, it reverts to the original font of the document. How can I change that?

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Hello! I am a student and I have to give a presentation on a certain topic in few days. I will be using Microsoft PowerPoint for that purpose. As we all know there are a lot of built in themes and animations that MS PowerPoint provide which can be used during presentation to make it look attractive. But for so many years I have been using these animations and themes. I was thinking if I could find some new themes and animations online. I tried but I couldn't find any. Does anyone actually know a link or a website...

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I have an issue with my office pc. Given that I have very poor eye sight, I have been experience issues with the screen of my pc at work. The thing is that the screen flickers a lot. It is a very dated CRT monitor and I was wondering if the flicker is a software or a hardware issue. How can I make it stop?

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Recently I was experimenting with my PC by installing Ubuntu on it. I noticed that the installation was not going well and try to abort it midway. Given that my pc already has windows 7 on it, I managed to boot into windows. But now I notice that 70GB that I was going to allocated to Ubuntu is gone. It no longer appears in windows. What can I do please?

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I am quite new in the linux operating systems and I am trying to learn how to use this piece of software as I heard nothing but good things about them. I recently managed to successfully install Ubuntu on my laptop and I have a very simple question. How do we install new programs on Ubuntu? I heard that you had to learn lines of code to do that. Is that true?

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I just went to the store in order to get a custom build PC. I handpicked all the component and have a technician build it up for me. The issue is that I ordered a 4 TB hard drive on my setup and on windows 7 the pc is ‘seeing’ only 2 TB. I have checked with the technician and guaranteed to me that it was 4 TB. Can anyone help me with this problem?

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I know that everyone has heard of dual booting on pc. I currently have a laptop with both windows 7 and windows 8 on a dual booting basis. Recently I was browsing the internet and saw the new Ubuntu release and got very interested in it. Is triple booting possible? how can it be done?

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I have always used windows live account in conjunction with my outlook. Throughout the years, I have managed to keep my mail in check and organised them nicely into subfolders. I recently moved to the new version of windows outlook and I cannot seem to recover my subfolders and the mail saved onto them. Help please?

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