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Info

Welcome to our info page.  Is this a catchall?  Could be.  It's here that we place tidbits of information that generally relate to questions we're asked by our clients.  We hope you enjoy.  If you don't find the information you're looking for her, please chose "Contact Us" and we'll try and get back with you as quickly as possible.

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 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.

  • June 2007 Update.  We've scanned in several useful articles in a single PDF that including information on Windows XP, Disk Maintenance and other topics.  This is a PDF document that is about 1.6MB.  Click here to download.

The Internet.

  • Firewalls.  Everyone needs a firewall.  One of the best is free - Zonealarm from Zonelabs.  Click here.

Email.

Miscellaneous.

  • Vista.  Click here for more information on the new Microsoft Vista Operating System

  • Office 2007. Click here for more information about the new Microsoft Office 2007

 

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