The Weekly Geek

Continuing on with the quick things you need to do for your computer, here is my list of monthly suggestions.
Update software programs – check for updates on all programs, even those you “rarly” use. Adobe, Pinnacle, your GPS software. Bad guys use “holes” in these programs to get into and mess up your computer and [...]

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Since there is so much going on in everyones life these days, I figure I will give you some real quick tips.
Everyday…
Update your anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware software.
Perform a backup, an incremental would be good. Check out the several other articles on this site about this.
If a program crashes, save everything and reboot the PC. If one [...]

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This post is primarily for those of you still on Dial-up or with cheapest “high speed” internet money can buy.
We can speed up your surfing of some web sites by attempting to stop the animations that play. Now, web developers use different ways to create animations, this is just one way to stop some of [...]

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Have you ever had an unexpected out of drive space message appear out of the blue or when you are attempting to install a new or updated program. If you have viewed the amount of space available on your hard drive and noticed that your disk space has disappeared, and wondered where it went there’s [...]

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I actually wrote about this in 2004 and again in 2007 but a few people have forgotten and sometimes Vista tweaks are not the same as previous version.
Anyway, many times you are updating / downloading many files at the same time. Microsoft limits this to 2 or 3, I forget (since I run the tweak on [...]

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