Use your Battle.net account to sign in to “World of Warcraft.” Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net system links all of your Blizzard games through a single account. It’s free to sign up for a Battle.net account, and your account keeps a record of your online game purchases and CD keys. You use the same Battle.net email and […]
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a text-based language designed to store and carry data, and is commonly used in website and database development. Portable Document Format (PDF) files have the capacity to be read by nearly any computer that utilizes PDF reading software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. A PDF file can easily be converted […]
Peer-to-peer network where all computers are clients and servers A server is a computer used in a network and which provides a service to a client. Servers usually have more processing power, memory and storage than client computers. The client is the computer that is not acting as the server, at least at that point […]
Image Credit: Jupiterimages/Pixland/Getty Images WordPad is a very basic word processing program included free of charge with every version of Microsoft Windows sold since Windows 95. While WordPad does offer basic document editing capabilities, if you want to add tables to your document or run a spell check, you will need to convert your WordPad […]
OSD Lockout capability helps to protect against changing display properties accidentally. Image Credit: gpointstudio/iStock/Getty Images OSD, or On Screen Display, is used to describe the physical menu buttons located on your computer monitor. By combining the many settings found within the operating system and the custom settings created with the OSD buttons, users can create […]
Image Credit: Photodisc/Photodisc/Getty Images The “signal cable” is a term used to describe the cable that connects your computer’s case to your computer monitor. It was given this nickname (its real name is a VGA cable) due to the fact that if you have any problems with the cable at all, such as the cable […]
An NSIS error occurs when you download a program that fails an integrity check during installation. Failed integrity checks usually occur due to corrupt files. To fix an NSIS error, install the corrupt program from a fresh copy. A combination of other solutions can be used to remove this error, such as removing malware, checking […]
MSI, or Micro-Star International, a Taiwan-based company established in 1986, manufactures motherboards, graphics cards and other computer hardware. Every motherboard part of the MSI AM3 series and every motherboard in the MSI Eclipse series built with an X58 chipset features M-Flash technology. M-Flash technology allows a user to conveniently flash, or upgrade, the BIOS from […]
Image Credit: ipopba/iStock/GettyImages Laptop PCs, regardless of manufacturer, will communicate system information to their users through a few different methods. In addition to any warnings or notifications that may appear on the screen, a sequence of beeps at start-up can offer warnings about potential hardware failures – and the series of LED lights on the […]
How to Make an ISO From a PS2 Game Disc Image Credit: monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Computer owners aren’t the only ones who are able to make backups of their favorite games anymore. Ever since the advent of DVD burners, gamers worldwide have discovered it is possible to make copies of their own legally owned games in […]
