Tips: Don't try this at your computer

Stop use of the normal power strip - to buy and install high-quality surge protector

Electrical storms, lighting strikes, power outages and traffic accidents with the participation of all lines can cause immediate surges or voltage spikes. Such uncontrolled spikes may adversely affect the smooth flow of power to your computer (ie smažit components!)

This is why you have to buy and install high-quality surge protector. Good protector should have at least insurer in the Lab standard rating of the 1449th Look at the plate with the inscription: "transient voltage surge suppressor and UL 1449th

Stop "forgetting" to at least weekly backup

The next question I usually ask is "Do you have any backup?" More hang-dog looks and shock of the head, no.

You can recover from 90% to the main computer is not working properly, if (and this is a big "if") you have a backup copy of your operating system and data files. Without the advances, your dead PC is becoming very expensive metal door stop. Remember, the richest man in the world (Bill Gates) made all his wealth with the software ... no hardware.

Buy a good backup program, such as Acronis True Image Home or on-line services such as Mozy.com. Well ... Let's be frank here ... "The best you can do for yourself and your computer is set up a backup system and to hold him!

Stop downloading, installing and uninstalling lots and lots of programs, especially unknown freeware and beta applications.

I know that this is a toughie. The Internet is just full of cool, free and useful software products and services. Hi, I could not run my little home, without some of them. But people, spammers and spyware, the Kings have long since known that all are happy smlouvat. Then write in their "products", as well as free!

Some of the most persistent and difficult to remove spyware / virus I have ever come across from me was getting the case of pigs and download by clicking around the net trying to save money here or there on the "freeware". Certainly I have a murderer freeware, but I also got a murderer adware too!

Then, after I downloaded it I had to go through the pain and difficulties uninstall or running some anti-spyware removed. If there is not freeware from an established as a source of Download.com or SourceForge.net then be very careful what you click.

Stop letting hard drive to obtain full fragmented software files.

The other problem with downloading everything you see that your hard drive fast becoming a full programs, lost snippets of code and blind alley registry files (the registry files are what Windows uses to keep track of what software is installed.)

Uninstalling the program, most of the heavy lifting, but no program really is removed clean. So, time hard drive will become cluttered minefield of broken bits on the use of encryption.
So once a week, if not more, depending on your withdrawal activity, you defrag your hard drive. Now, Windows has its own "Disk Defragmenter" utility built in that this tool works well, but it can be příšerně slow running. So you defragging late at night when sleeping, or in the course, when you are away from home.

Stop the harvest and using weak passwords

Hi, my to do this. We all know that a strong password should have a combination of the lowercase letters, large letters, numbers and symbols, such as this, "2Tech Sign #!" But who the hell could remember some pass word like that?

And so we all just plug into something like, "techlog" that tech savvy 15 years with a free code cracking from the Internet, it may have broken down under 30 seconds. And because we use the same password for email, everything from eBay to bank records, anyone who cracks the password now has access to your entire on-line financial life and identity.

Hackers, crackers and other online thieves are super-geniuses of evil, are to be portrayed in books and films. Certainly, most are smarter than the average man, but as everyone else that they like easy pickings. Why waste all that energy to hack into the bank when you can easily hack Bank Vice President notebook home because they like us, uses the same personal password again and again and again?

So here is what to do. Create different passwords for different functions. Create a really strong alone on your bank, eBay, PayPal accounts. Then use a completely different one for those "subscribe to free offer" website.