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Personal Computing.

  • Scandisk.  A cheap, fast and relatively easy way to help maintain the health of your PC.  Click here for more info.

  • Passwords.  They're important.  Please make sure that every user on your Windows PC has an assigned user name and password. 

    Simply go to Windows Control Panel and choose Users.  Select the user and add a password to the account.   We recommend you add a second user to the system as well.  This helps in case information about the initial user becomes corrupted.

  • Backup.  Remember - back up backup BACKup backUP!  Click here for an older BusinessWeek article about backing up.   Click here for more information about backing up.

The Internet.

  • Firewalls.  Everyone needs a firewall.  One of the best is free though becoming a little more bloated - Zonealarm from Zonelabs. Norton has decreased the footprint of their all in one product and they actually have telephone chat support. The lack of such support has called us to pull back on our support for AVG. Check out PC Magazine, PC World, InformationWeek and CNET for ratings of Firewall and Antivirus products - also the Wall Street Journal periodically runs reviews of personal software. 

Email.

 

 

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