forums.techarena.in

Technology and computer hardware support forum of India. This forum is fairly active

www.nirsoft.net

Unique collection of freeware desktop utilities, system utilities, password recovery tools, components, and free source code examples. Excellent utilities.

www.dll-files.com

A website where you can download missing DLL files.

www.computerhope.com

A PC reference reference site. An excellent section on command syntax.

filext.com

Info on all file extentions, known and unknown. What type they are and what programs you use to open them with.

www.5starsupport.com

A site with tutorial, registry tweaks, beep codes, troublshooting and more.

www.experts-exchange.com

An invaluable information site for IT technicians. To get the solutions without paying: 1) find the question to the proble you are having. 2) search on google with the first line or so. 3) click on the cache link, this will display the whole article. T ...

www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/0/

Discover media and technology on BBC WebWise. Find out how to develop the essential online skills to make the most of your mobile, tablet, computer or interactive television.

radified.com/index.rad

This site offers real help in using Norton / Symantec GHOST among other things.

mintywhite.com

Windows Tools, Help & Guides Windows 7, Vista, XP. Free Desktop Wallpapers, Freeware, PNG Icons, Fonts, Screensavers. Well written guides on how to customize all windows versions along with security and other tutorials.

Founded in 2008, Win ...

www.fileinfo.com

FileInfo.com is the central file extensions registry and serves as the universal database of file associations. This website will tell you what programs and applications use what extensions.

file.org

Having problems opening a file? We will help you find products that can open, view or play your files. This site also helps identify what program or application the file extension should be opened with.

www.file-extensions.org

Large computer file extension library with detailed explanation of each file type with links to download free or associated software programs.

tutsplus.com/take-the-tour/?WT.z_tour=head

Tuts+ Premium is designed to help you grasp and practice complete skills. Learning via tutorials, eBooks and courses means that topics are covered in-depth from many different angles, leaving you with ...

www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1583

A good guide to why hard drives go wrong and the signs of impending failure

www.z-a-recovery.com/art-partition-recovery.htm

This page has an excellent description of how a hardrive partition is set out, how it can fail and how it should be fixed. This tutorial has some excellent diagrams.

www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/

This is a really easy to follow article on how RAIDs are arranged

www.rh-webs.net/2009/08/19/the-great-lacie-1tb-big-disk-reco...

This is an article on how to recover data from a LaCie 1TB External NAS Drive. This assumes the actual hard disks are intact and it is either the powerpack or controller board that has failed.

www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1033651-how-to-fix-spinrite%E2%80...

As some of you who use spinrite very frequently may have noticed, spinrite will usually crash when scanning larger drives (in my experiences it's been on drives over 640GB). Once spinrite gets to a certain point in ...

www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-malware-and-vir...

This is a very easy to read article explaining the difference between Virus and Malware, but basically Virus are a subset of Malware.