Keeping your PC running smoothly
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Keeping your PC running smoothly
Examiner.com
These practices range from keeping the files and folders on your hard-drive organized to upgrading your RAM. Let’s begin by taking a look at your PC’s hard-drive. “My Computer” and “Windows Explorer”: It’s easy to scatter files across your hard-drive over time. But in terms of accessing those files when you need them and for ease of backing-up your drive it’s important to keep those files organized. The best 2 tools for keeping files and folders organized are the applications “Windows Explorer” and “My Computer” (recently renamed to simply “Computer”) that come installed on your PC. Start either of those applications on your PC to take a look at your hard-drive and the locations of your files and folders.
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Security Fix Blogger
Washington Post
: Recent news articles make it clear that most PC’s can be infected with new Trojan and spyware programs. I have relied on TrendMicro PC-cillin assuming it kept me safe how reliable is this protection software and how can I find out if my PC has malicious software that I have not detected previously?Brian Krebs: Antivirus software is hit or miss and I don’t care what brand you’re using: some malware will get through. It’s a constant arms race and one the bad guys eventually win. That is why i emphasize defense in depth not running as administrator and staying up to date on patches. To your question there are several things you can do to get a second opinion.
Three Types of Notebooks That are Great for Students
Notebooks.com
Tablet PC?s have come a long way in the past several years in terms of price portability and usefulness. In fact a tablet PC may be the perfect college computer since it makes note taking extremely easy. You?ll no longer need to hunt for the subscript button to enter an equation or attempt to recreate a diagram with backslashes and punctuation since it?s easy to draw exactly what the professor s talking about. I highly recommend the HP TouchSmart tx2z which comes with multitouch technology and starts at $799.
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