COMPUTER TIPS
WHEN
THINGS GO WRONG WITH YOUR COMPUTER, IT CAN BE A COSTLY AND TIME
CONSUMING PROBLEM. WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF YOUR COMPUTER COULD LOOK
AFTER ITSELF AND DO IT FOR FREE ?
A LOT OF THINGS CAN SLOW A COMPUTER DOWN OR CAUSE IT TO STOP WORKING.REGISTRY ERRORS, OUTDATED DRIVERS, JUNK FILES, FRAGMENTATION, INADEQUATE SECURITY, UNNECESARY SERVICES RUNNING ETC ETC.
FREEWARE HAS COME A LONG WAY IN THE LAST TEN YEARS AND IN A LOT OF CASES ARE AS GOOD AND SOMETIMES BETTER THAN PROGRAMS THAT YOU PAY FOR.
BUT FREEWARE COMES WITH A CATCH SOMETIMES. WHEN INSTALLING FREEWARE ALWAYS CHOOSE CUSTOM INSTALL INSTEAD OF EXPRESS INSTALL. IF YOU CHOOSE EXPRESS INSTALL, FREEWARE WILL USUALLY INSTALL
THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WHICH IS USUALLY TRIAL SOFTWARE OF ANOTHER PRODUCT THAT YOU END UP HAVING TO PAY FOR. WITH CUSTOM INSTALL YOU CAN DESELECT THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.
SO, MAKING YOUR COMPUTER LOOK AFTER ITSELF AND KEEPING IT RUNNING LIKE NEW !
THERE ARE FOUR MUST HAVE FREE UTLITIES TO DO THIS AND AFTER 30 YEARS OF COMPUTING I HAVE TRIED AND TESTED MANY PROGRAMES. I AM IN NO WAY PAID OR REWARDED BY THESE COMPANIES IN ANY WAY TO ADVERTISE THEIR PRODUCTS.
A) DRIVER BOOSTER BY IOBIT. EVERYTHING YOU DO ON A COMPUTER IS DRIVEN BY MINI PROGRAMES CALLED DRIVERS. THESE DRIVERS NEED TO BE KEPT UP TO DATE TO KEEP EVERYTHING WORKING SMOOTHLY. THERE ARE LOTS OF PROGRAMES FOR UPDATING DRIVERS. FREEWARE DRIVER UPDATERS ONLY LET YOU UPDATE DRIVERS ONE AT A TIME AND CONTINUALLY PROMPT YOU TO UPDATE THE PROGRAM TO THE PAID VERSION. DRIVERBOOSTER IS FREE AND UPDATES ALL YOUR DRIVERS IN ONE GO AND IS VERY EASY TO USE WITH ONE CLICK SCAN AND ONE CLICK TO UPDATE ALL DRIVERS FOUND TO BE OUT OF DATE. JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T INSTALL IOBIT ADVANCED SYSTEM CARE AS ANOTHER UTILITY IS BETTER. USE CUSTOM INSTALL.
B) UNINSTALLER BY IOBIT. WHEN YOU UNINSTALL A PROGRAM THE NORMAL WAY ( THE PROGRAME'S UNINSTALLER OR WINDOWS UNINSTALLER ), THEORETICALLY THE PROGRAM IS UNINSTALLED; WRONG. 90% OF THE TIME THERE ARE REMNANTS OF THE PROGRAM LEFT ON THE COMPUTER TAKING UP SPACE. IOBIT UNINSTALLER FIRSTLY DOES A NORMAL UNINSTALL AND THEN DOES A POWERFUL SCAN TO DELETE ANY REMNANTS. AS USUAL, DO A CUSTOM INSTALL DESELECT ADVANCED SYSTEM CARE.
C) TOOLWIZ CARE. Toolwiz Care is a free tool kit designed to speed up your slow PC. With a multi-functional optimization suite, this Windows system optimizer provides a collection of tools which includes System Checkup, System Cleanup, System Speedup, and 40+ powerful tools to enhance your PC performance, local and network security, and optimize the start-up procedure. Toolwiz team guarantees users that Toolwiz Care will stay free forever. This tool kit is designed for all levels of PC users from beginners to experts. Features: The Disk Cleaner tool will clean out all junk files. The Registry Cleaner tool will make the PC system more stable by cleaning out the bad Registry entries. The Registry Defrager rebuilds PC?s Registry, making the entire system run quicker and smoother. The History Cleaner protects the user?s privacy by deleting all activity history and surfing traces. The Fast Defrger will de-fragment the hard drive with it?s smart engine, keep the PC running efficiently and prevent the formation of other fragmented files. The Checkup module provides a full report of user's PC system and allows the user to fix all problems with one simple click. The Boot Report provides a easy to read report that shows the start-up time of user?s system. It offers a detailed list of the processes loaded since booting. The Startup Optimizer allows the user to disable or delay the loading of any startup entries. It also provides the users with suggestions of standard processes. The Game Booster concentrates every system resource for gaming purpose. It temporarily shuts background processes and other unnecessary Windows services. The Game Booster also cleans out the RAM and intensifies processor performance. The Password Generator creates highly secure passwords with upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols.
WHEN YOU FIRST OPEN TOOLWIZ CARE YOU WILL SEE IN THE RIGHT PANE CALLED PICKED FEATURES. DO NOT TURN ON TIME FREEZE AS SOME COMPUTERS CAN'T HANDLE IT AND CAN CAUSE COMPUTER TO CRASH. EYE CARE IS TURNED ON BY DEFAULT (FREEZES THE COMPUTER EVERY TWO HOURS FOR FIVE MINUTES TO PROTECT YOUR EYES ) AND IF YOU DON'T WANT THIS FEATURE, TURN IT OFF. START UP DEFENDER IS TURNED OFF BY DEFAULT ( LETS YOU KNOW IF SOMETHING NEW IS STARTING WITH YOUR COMPUTER AND GIVES YOU THE OPTION OF LETTING IT START OR NOT ) AND THIS SHOULD BE TURNED ON.
D) IMAGEBURN. If your PC has an optical disc burner like a DVD or Blu-Ray burner, you can create DVDs that you can play in your home entertainment system, boot discs that can help you start your PC when something goes wrong, and data discs that can safely store backups, archives, disk images and copies, and other data. However, to make all that easy, you need help in the form of a good disc-burning utility. ImgBurn from Lightning UK fits the bill. This lightweight freeware burns CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs, depending of course on your system's capabilities: You'll need a Blu-Ray burner to burn Blu-Ray discs with ImgBurn, for example, just like with every other disc-burning tool. What ImgBurn does is simplify what can be a complicated, error-prone process.
E) VIRUS, TROJAN, KEYLOGGER, AND MALWARE PROTECTION. YOU CAN'T GO PAST THE FREE PROGRAME 360 SECURITY ESSENTIALS. THIS PROGRAME GIVES YOU REAL TIME PROTECTION AND COMES WITH WEB PAGE PROTECTION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY COMPUTER RELATED QUESTIONS, YOU CAN E-MAIL ME AT steftaylor55@yahoo.com.au AND I WILL TRY TO ANSWER THEM.
A LOT OF THINGS CAN SLOW A COMPUTER DOWN OR CAUSE IT TO STOP WORKING.REGISTRY ERRORS, OUTDATED DRIVERS, JUNK FILES, FRAGMENTATION, INADEQUATE SECURITY, UNNECESARY SERVICES RUNNING ETC ETC.
FREEWARE HAS COME A LONG WAY IN THE LAST TEN YEARS AND IN A LOT OF CASES ARE AS GOOD AND SOMETIMES BETTER THAN PROGRAMS THAT YOU PAY FOR.
BUT FREEWARE COMES WITH A CATCH SOMETIMES. WHEN INSTALLING FREEWARE ALWAYS CHOOSE CUSTOM INSTALL INSTEAD OF EXPRESS INSTALL. IF YOU CHOOSE EXPRESS INSTALL, FREEWARE WILL USUALLY INSTALL
THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WHICH IS USUALLY TRIAL SOFTWARE OF ANOTHER PRODUCT THAT YOU END UP HAVING TO PAY FOR. WITH CUSTOM INSTALL YOU CAN DESELECT THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.
SO, MAKING YOUR COMPUTER LOOK AFTER ITSELF AND KEEPING IT RUNNING LIKE NEW !
THERE ARE FOUR MUST HAVE FREE UTLITIES TO DO THIS AND AFTER 30 YEARS OF COMPUTING I HAVE TRIED AND TESTED MANY PROGRAMES. I AM IN NO WAY PAID OR REWARDED BY THESE COMPANIES IN ANY WAY TO ADVERTISE THEIR PRODUCTS.
A) DRIVER BOOSTER BY IOBIT. EVERYTHING YOU DO ON A COMPUTER IS DRIVEN BY MINI PROGRAMES CALLED DRIVERS. THESE DRIVERS NEED TO BE KEPT UP TO DATE TO KEEP EVERYTHING WORKING SMOOTHLY. THERE ARE LOTS OF PROGRAMES FOR UPDATING DRIVERS. FREEWARE DRIVER UPDATERS ONLY LET YOU UPDATE DRIVERS ONE AT A TIME AND CONTINUALLY PROMPT YOU TO UPDATE THE PROGRAM TO THE PAID VERSION. DRIVERBOOSTER IS FREE AND UPDATES ALL YOUR DRIVERS IN ONE GO AND IS VERY EASY TO USE WITH ONE CLICK SCAN AND ONE CLICK TO UPDATE ALL DRIVERS FOUND TO BE OUT OF DATE. JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T INSTALL IOBIT ADVANCED SYSTEM CARE AS ANOTHER UTILITY IS BETTER. USE CUSTOM INSTALL.
B) UNINSTALLER BY IOBIT. WHEN YOU UNINSTALL A PROGRAM THE NORMAL WAY ( THE PROGRAME'S UNINSTALLER OR WINDOWS UNINSTALLER ), THEORETICALLY THE PROGRAM IS UNINSTALLED; WRONG. 90% OF THE TIME THERE ARE REMNANTS OF THE PROGRAM LEFT ON THE COMPUTER TAKING UP SPACE. IOBIT UNINSTALLER FIRSTLY DOES A NORMAL UNINSTALL AND THEN DOES A POWERFUL SCAN TO DELETE ANY REMNANTS. AS USUAL, DO A CUSTOM INSTALL DESELECT ADVANCED SYSTEM CARE.
C) TOOLWIZ CARE. Toolwiz Care is a free tool kit designed to speed up your slow PC. With a multi-functional optimization suite, this Windows system optimizer provides a collection of tools which includes System Checkup, System Cleanup, System Speedup, and 40+ powerful tools to enhance your PC performance, local and network security, and optimize the start-up procedure. Toolwiz team guarantees users that Toolwiz Care will stay free forever. This tool kit is designed for all levels of PC users from beginners to experts. Features: The Disk Cleaner tool will clean out all junk files. The Registry Cleaner tool will make the PC system more stable by cleaning out the bad Registry entries. The Registry Defrager rebuilds PC?s Registry, making the entire system run quicker and smoother. The History Cleaner protects the user?s privacy by deleting all activity history and surfing traces. The Fast Defrger will de-fragment the hard drive with it?s smart engine, keep the PC running efficiently and prevent the formation of other fragmented files. The Checkup module provides a full report of user's PC system and allows the user to fix all problems with one simple click. The Boot Report provides a easy to read report that shows the start-up time of user?s system. It offers a detailed list of the processes loaded since booting. The Startup Optimizer allows the user to disable or delay the loading of any startup entries. It also provides the users with suggestions of standard processes. The Game Booster concentrates every system resource for gaming purpose. It temporarily shuts background processes and other unnecessary Windows services. The Game Booster also cleans out the RAM and intensifies processor performance. The Password Generator creates highly secure passwords with upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols.
WHEN YOU FIRST OPEN TOOLWIZ CARE YOU WILL SEE IN THE RIGHT PANE CALLED PICKED FEATURES. DO NOT TURN ON TIME FREEZE AS SOME COMPUTERS CAN'T HANDLE IT AND CAN CAUSE COMPUTER TO CRASH. EYE CARE IS TURNED ON BY DEFAULT (FREEZES THE COMPUTER EVERY TWO HOURS FOR FIVE MINUTES TO PROTECT YOUR EYES ) AND IF YOU DON'T WANT THIS FEATURE, TURN IT OFF. START UP DEFENDER IS TURNED OFF BY DEFAULT ( LETS YOU KNOW IF SOMETHING NEW IS STARTING WITH YOUR COMPUTER AND GIVES YOU THE OPTION OF LETTING IT START OR NOT ) AND THIS SHOULD BE TURNED ON.
D) IMAGEBURN. If your PC has an optical disc burner like a DVD or Blu-Ray burner, you can create DVDs that you can play in your home entertainment system, boot discs that can help you start your PC when something goes wrong, and data discs that can safely store backups, archives, disk images and copies, and other data. However, to make all that easy, you need help in the form of a good disc-burning utility. ImgBurn from Lightning UK fits the bill. This lightweight freeware burns CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs, depending of course on your system's capabilities: You'll need a Blu-Ray burner to burn Blu-Ray discs with ImgBurn, for example, just like with every other disc-burning tool. What ImgBurn does is simplify what can be a complicated, error-prone process.
E) VIRUS, TROJAN, KEYLOGGER, AND MALWARE PROTECTION. YOU CAN'T GO PAST THE FREE PROGRAME 360 SECURITY ESSENTIALS. THIS PROGRAME GIVES YOU REAL TIME PROTECTION AND COMES WITH WEB PAGE PROTECTION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY COMPUTER RELATED QUESTIONS, YOU CAN E-MAIL ME AT steftaylor55@yahoo.com.au AND I WILL TRY TO ANSWER THEM.