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Keeping Your PC Healthy – Top Tips

Here, you’ll find a small collection of tips on how to keep your PC healthy – advice from the team at FileSaveAs


 

PC health advice

Here’s a small collection of tips on keeping your PC running well…

Stay
up-to-date
Go
to www.windowsupdate.com
and run a Windows Update to make sure you have the critical patches
released by Microsoft
Be
Virus-free
Get
yourself a good anti-virus app – we recommend
McAfee
AntiVirus software
(Also from Amazon) .

If you think you have a virus, use the free online virus checker to
scan your machine – See http://www.symantec.com/securitycheck

Tidy-up
  • Windows can fill your
    hard-disk with temporary files – this can slow your machine down.
    Make sure you delete your Temporary Internet files now and then
    – From Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet options >
    Delete files (select Delete offline content).
  • Windows provides a useful
    cleanup tool to do this and to clean up other temp files. Go to
    ‘My Computer’ and right-click on the hard drive (C:) icon. Select
    ‘Properties’ and ‘Disk cleanup’.
  • Uninstall any apps that
    you don’t use any more from Start > Settings > Control Panel
    > Add/Remove Programs
Speedup

To speed up your PC, try
the following:

  1. Delete as much rubbish
    as you can (see above)
  2. Run a ‘defrag’ on your
    hard-disk to speed it up – Go to ‘My Computer’ and right-click
    on the hard drive (C:) icon. Select ‘Properties’, ‘Tools’, then
    ‘Defragment now’.
  3. If your system tray on
    your toolbar looks anything like ours, you’ve probably got too
    many programs running in the background taking up valuable memory.
    Install and run the free Startup
    Inspector
    application to see what automatically starts
    when your machine does. You can then get the advisor to tell you
    what they are and whether you need them. You can also stop them
    from starting up.

    Sys Tray

    You could also look at upgrading the RAM in your machine to give you a speed boost. We recommend: Crucial, who offer an online upgrade advisor to ensure you don’t buy the wrong thing.

     

Spyware Some
applications that you may have downloaded from the Internet may contain
what’s called Spyware -in some ways similar to a virus, these can
do nasty things such as pass details on your computer activities on
to others, or mess around with some of your settings. It’s advisable
to run an anti-Spyware application at least once a month. We recommend
the free app: Ad-aware
Reduce
Spam

One
of today’s real pains is the amount of spam email that gets through.
One thing you can do to reduce this is to sign up to a free spam prevention
service – we currently recommend CloudMark, as this is the most effective solution we’ve found for keeping spam to a minimum – download the free trial, which adds a toolbar to Outlook.

Cloudmark toolbar

Pop-ups

If
you’re being annoyed by having adverts popping up while you’re browsing websites, consider getting yourself a pop-up blocker.

We recommend the Google Toolbar, which adds extra functionality to your web browser, including a pop-up stopper. Best of all, it’s free. Download from toolbar.google.com.

Advanced
stuff
If
you’re more of an advanced user, the following are worth a look too:

  • Tidy your registry. Norton
    Systemworks
    comes with various tools to tidy and optimise
    your drive, as well as a tool to scan the system registry. Additionally,
    the following tools are useful registry cleaners: RegCleaner
    & RegScrub XP
  • System Mechanic 6 – A great all-round application for keeping your PC running – tidy your drive, compress & optimise the registry, repair disks and reduce clutter. More on our System Mechanic 6 mini-review

 

Handy Links

  • FileSaveAs Solutions – Answers to some not-so-common problems

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