The sad thing is that hard drive failure is a reality for a great many computer users out there. All hard drives have an expiration date. Even if you’ve had your hard drive for a considerable length of time, there may come a time when it will fail suddenly, resulting in the loss of all your data. Thus, it’s very important that you do your utmost to protect your system from hard drive failure. But before you can do that, you will first need to be able to detect the signs of a hard drive that is about to fail, then know what to do next in order to prevent it from completely dying.

Let’s say for the past couple of weeks your hard drive has been grinding and clicking, and now the noises its making have become even more pronounced. This is a good sign that your hard drive is about to fail. The reality is that most strange sounds that you hear from a hard drive are typically good signs of possible failure. If you start to hear any of these sounds, the first thing you should do is backup all the important data on the drive. If your operating system is running on that hard drive, then you may want to make a copy the contents of that hard drive to a new one, in order to prevent any future headaches.

Of all the things that you can do, one thing that you must not do is attempt to fix the issue by yourself. There are some people that thing that if they open up the hard drive they may be able to fix what’s wrong with it. This is especially the train of thought for hard drives that are relatively new, as they struggle to come to terms with the reality. But the reality is that, the moment you open up the hard drive, you’ve taken a particularly bad situation and made it significantly worse. Hard drives are assembled in special clean rooms, as they are highly susceptible to damage from even the smallest particles. Opening up the hard drive is simply asking for trouble.

If you have been responsible enough to regularly back up your hard drive, then you should have very little to worry about, as all you will need to do is purchase a new hard drive and copy the backup data to it. However, if you’ve never backed up your hard drive, it’s still not cause to panic, as you can contact a specialist that will be able to recover the contents of your hard drive, in the event that it fails. However, this process is takes a considerable length of time to complete and its relatively expensive. The whole process is carried out in a clean room, with special tools, and highly qualified personnel. And in most cases they may not be able to recover all the data on the drive.

Stay away from any home remedies that you’ve read for fixing failed hard drives. Whatever you do, do not put your hard drive in the refrigerator. These supposed fixes are all untrue and are likely to cause more problems for you. If you’re unable to get the drive working, then your only solution will be to send it in to a specialist. While it may not be the most favoured option, it’s the only viable one. The unfortunate thing about it is that you will never be able to use the drive again. But in many cases, having to pay a hefty sum to retrieve the data on your drive is more than worth it. Old pictures and emails from close relatives and friends are priceless. However, you want to avoid this from ever happening, which can be done by taking the proper precautions.

The vast majority of computer users out there use their systems primarily for entertainment purposes in addition to schooling and job related duties. Because of how important computers are to us today, most people will feel rather scared or in a panic if they were using the system and an error message suddenly appeared on their screen, telling them that it’s about to shut down for no real reasons, especially if they were doing something important on the computer at the time.

One should not worry however, as lsass errors are definitely fixable. Fixing this particular error usually takes a small amount of technical knowhow, which means even a novice should be able to do it.

Lsass stands for Local Security Authentication Server. It’s one of the more important services of the operating system. The duties of this particular service is to enhance policies that are security related within the OS, in addition to handling the authentication process when a user logs in, and the handling of password changes, and active directory management. 

Because the Lsass is primarily responsible for the security component of your operating system, hackers and virus makers like to target it, in order to gain access to your system. Thus, when you encounter this error, typically it will be due to a virus or malware.

The best solution to fixing this error is to run a full scan of your antivirus program. If you don’t have one on your system, then there are a number of them that you can find online, all of which are more than capable of finding and removing the virus causing the error. If there is already an antivirus program on your computer, then before you run the full virus scan, make sure its virus definitions are up-to-date.

Once you have the antivirus program on your system, the first thing you should do is boot into safe mode. This can be done by pressing the F8 key while the computer is booting up. If you press the button at the right time, then the boot choice screen should appear, from there, select boot into safe mode. After you’ve successfully booted into safe mode, run a full scan of the antivirus program.

After the scan has finished, restart your computer and boot into normal windows mode. Once the computer has booted up, make sure all windows updates are installed on your operating system. These updates are designed to enhance the security of your operating system against malware/virus attacks.

If after running the full virus scan, you’re still getting the same error message, then there is a good chance that the error is due to a corrupt or damaged configuration file within the windows registry. Using a registry cleaner is a quick and efficient way to repairing this problem.

Registry cleaner programs are small programs that are capable of scanning your entire registry and detecting any damaged or corrupt files within it. It will tend restore or fix these infected files.

There are many registry cleaner programs that you can find online, just be sure to choose an efficient one, that way you can be sure that it will locate the problem on your computer and repair it.

Once the registry clean has been completed, the error message should be a thing of the past. You should also notice a slight performance increase in addition to that, as this registry tools are designed to improve system performance in addition to cleaning the registry.

The hacking of email accounts is something that takes place quite frequently. As a result, there are tons of websites out there that will teach you how to safeguard your email account. Talking from experience, it’s a terrible feeling to find out your account has been hacked, not to mention the various illegal things that they can do once they’ve gained access to it.

Hackers are caught and arrested for hacking into other peoples email accounts, serving up to a year and in some cases more, in prison. So it’s definitely something that is taken seriously. For those of you that have had your email accounts hacked, I know how you must feel. So what kinds of things can you do to prevent your account from being hacked?

1. Never give out account information to others via email.

The vast majority of email accounts are hacked by using a process called phishing. Phishing is basically when someone sends you an unsolicited email which has a link in it to a website that appears to be legitimate, on that website they will typically ask you to put in your private/personal information. This is something you need to be very aware of, because once you give out your personal information, the hacker will be able to use it to access your email account, and in some cases your credit card.

These hackers spend a great deal of time ensuring that these fake websites look like the real thing. If you ever get an email in your inbox that asks you to lick on a link, never do it. If it asks for you to give out personal account information, never give it out. Instead, you should type the URL of your bank into your website and access the website directly. From there, you can log in and see whether there have been any notifications. Legitimate banks do not ask you to give out personal information via email. Alternatively, you may want to give your bank a call, their umber should be on your bank statement. But whatever you do, stay away from those emails.

2. Use a web brother, like internet explorer that has a phishing filter built onto it. These phishing filters are able to identify these fake websites, which are designed to look like the real thing. Firefox is another browser that has this feature built into it.

3. Do a little browsing around the options menu for your email account and check for a filter. Make sure that all the filters that are in place were put there by you; otherwise you should immediately discard them.

4. Try not to click on any links that are contained within an email, unless you know 100% where it’s taking you. There are many plug-in that you can find that will preview where a link is going to take you, without having to click on that link. Plug-ins such as these is also helpful in that they conserve a great deal of your time.

Remember, that the vast majority of times, it’s us that are giving these hackers the keys to out accounts. So we must be more alert, never click on any suspicious links in your emails and you should be fine.