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How to identify CMOS Battery Failure

CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor and it is a technology used to build up microprocessors, microcontrollers and other digital logic circuits. The CMOS is usually powered by a CR2032 cell battery known as the CMOS battery. It stores …

Svchost.exe: Friend or Foe?

If you take a look at the list of processes running in your computer you may come across something called svchost.exe. Finding a large number of these processes is likely to cause concern as you would have no recollection of …