These are the primary warning signs associated with serious computer problems:

( 1) - Your computer often crashes or seizes up for no apparent reason. ( 2) - Your computer sometimes starts up in "safe mode" for no apparent reason. ( 3) - The start up of your computer has become very slow. ( 4) - Your computer has begun to run very slow all of a sudden for no apparent reason. ( 5) - Surfing the Internet has become very slow. ( 6) - You are getting warnings about insufficient memory or insufficient resources. ( 7) - You are having difficulty running multiple programs. (Multitasking) ( 8) - When shutting down, your computer has warned of more than one user.        - This is especially critical because it means someone else is also using your computer at the same time, perhaps as an illegal server. ( 9) - Downloading from the Internet has become very slow. (10) - Your Internet home page (The page you start up with.) has changed by itself somehow. (11) - You are getting "pop-up" text advertisements or communications sort of like Windows® "Critical Update Messages". (12) - Some peripherals such as scanners, web cameras or printers only work occasionally or just don't seem to engage. (13) - Your computer often seizes up during shut down.

If you just really want to understand and tightly manage your computer and it's peripherals or, if you have a critical warning or more than one of of these symptoms; please contact us as soon as possible because you may be at risk of identity theft, serious computer damage, or of unknowingly performing some illegal internet activity.

It is best to contact us before your computer is in total disarray and needs to be reformatted. If you wait until the very end, you may lose your data, mail, contacts, favorites or bookmarks and downloaded programs. Don't let this happen to you. It is far cheaper and a lot more fun to learn how to properly manage and run your computer when everything is running well.