How to maintain your computer and tips I use to keep my file and boost it.
The personal computer is a great tool if you know how to use it properly. This page and related pages are a compilation of tips and recommended software that are great recommendation to maintain your system and software you can use to get your work easy and fast.
This page mainly applies to Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. I don't recommend upgrading to Vista. Please. And I don't recommend Windows 98 or ME unless you have a really old machine and never use it to connect to the Internet.
Feb. 2005 note: I totally chucked Microsoft Windows from my desktop PC in favor of Fedora Core Linux! If you don't yet know the glories of the Linux operating system, I highly suggest you check it out my.
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Some good habits
Setting up and working in a limited user account
By default Windows 2000 and Windows XP sets you up as an "Administrator". You should change the account settings to a limited user and only log in as an Administrator when you need to make changes to Windows such as installing new programs. This is for your own protection, and especially so when surfing the Internet! In the Linux operating system, the Administrator account is known as "Root" or "Super User" and no Linux User in his right mind would surf the Internet as Root. That would be like walking through a battlefield naked and defenseless!
To change your account to a limited user, go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Users and Passwords, and click on your account name and then click on Properties. Change the account type to User and then click OK. For this to work there must be at least one account that has Administrator privileges so you should not attempt to change the account to User if the name of the account is Administrator. If it is, create a new account with your user name and password. Make sure that the Administrator password is set. It should not be the same as the Limited User account password.
If you always do your email and browse the Internet from a limited user account, you will have much less danger of being infected by a virus or a trojan. I did a little experiment along those lines. I turned off real time monitoring of Norton Anti virus, changed my working account from a Administrator to a User, and purposely opened an attachment that I knew to be a virus. Norton AV later identified the virus as W32.Mytob.FA@mm which is a mass-mailing worm that opens a back door and lowers security settings on the compromised computer. (See http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mytob.fa@mm.html) Immediately my Windows 2000 laptop started to experience viral activity. The Norton AV icon in the System tray suddenly disappeared and Zone Alarm reported that some process was trying to access the Internet! Of course I denied it.
The point I want to make here is that the Worm was only active until I rebooted my PC. After that it was gone. Why? It could only run when I first opened the attachment but it could not modify any of the system settings in the registry to continue to live! This means that I didn't have to do any work to clean out the Worm from my system. It died and left no trace as soon as I rebooted the laptop.
Seek help when you don't know what you're doing
If you don't know what you're doing, it's probably good to wait until you do. I learned the hard way that it is usually a waste of time to play guessing games with the computer. It saves time in the long run to get out the particular manual of the software you need to learn and read it. Or you can check out the help file. If you make time to learn what you need to know, you will be investing in the future and save time over the long run. Some folks never have time to study what they need to know, but they always seem to have plenty of time to have problems and agonize over them. It's also good to call your friendly computer geek for advice if he's around. In my case the Geek is always somewhere half way around the world but always as close as my keyboard.
Make a backup copy of any important documents.
A "document" is a file that either you or somebody created using the keyboard, be it a letter you want to hang on to, a database, a report, finance records, translation work, composition, etc. Or it may even be a music file, video file, or graphic file. You should keep duplicate copies of files that are important to you and would be a loss to you personally if your hard disk fails. "Valuable things come in small packages" applies to computer files too. Your most important files may even be small enough to easily fit on a floppy disk -- the least expensive backup media you can buy! I guarantee that if you make 2 or more backups of the same thing, the chance of a total loss of that data is negligible, and especially so if you store those floppies / CD or other media in different places. If you do so, you won't be freaked out by virus scares. You will rest content knowing that your hard work typing a long document will not be lost! And for goodness sake, don't leave them lying around the desk for your kids to play with! If they do, don't blame them! It's your fault for not keeping them out of sight and unreachable by little hands!
Note the location of where a file will be saved or downloaded
When you save a file on your hard disk, be sure to note the name of the folder where you are saving it! By default this is "My Documents" but this is not necessarily so for non-Microsoft applications. Beginners are often not aware of this. You can see the location in the "Save in" section. If you have a clear file organization method, you won't wonder where that file is next time you need it. Moreover, it is best give the file a name that will help you to remember what the contents is. You wouldn't want to toss a gold or diamond ring in a hay loft, would you? That is what you are doing by not looking carefully where you save a file or not naming it in a clear and easy to remember manner.
Don't hold down a key too long unless...
There are only 3 keys you should hold down on the keyboard: The Ctrl key, the Shift Key, and the Alt key. The rest you are supposed to tap quickly or they will repeat themselves. When you need to use either the Ctrl, Shift or Alt key in combination with another key, hold down the key first and then tap the other. For example, a hotkey combination to close an application is Alt + F4. You would hold down the Alt key while taping F4 to make this work.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
It's probably not a good idea to experiment with tweaking your Windows system unless you know what you're doing or know how to undo what you did that brought undesirable results! This is probably the only rule I never keep; I'm a geek who can usually fix what I broke.
There are still more you can learn to format your hard disk, protect your system from virus from damaging your important files and your operating system, advance tips I use in removing virus from my system and recommecded system software to make your work easy and fast. To get this full manual email freedom4ever35@gmail.com and I will send it directly to mail box to download
DISCLAIMER: Please don't hold me responsible if any procedure or software that is recommended on this page gave you negative results. If you don't know what you are doing, it's better not to do it.
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IMPOTANT NOTICES
P.S: Please be extremely careful especially if using internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived directly from both Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation 'Life is beautiful. ' If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES , and delete it immediately . If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: ' It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful. ‘Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password. This is a new virus. Beware!
