Hi again, I just posted a poll about when you pay your taxes... I thought it was a fun question...
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=5319913#post5319913
[COLOR=66FF00]iluvtink[/COLOR], there are 4 things that can really speed up your computer if you have a downloader in the family. I will keep this on the fun side with no techie talk; if you want directions, PM me...
1) Spyware...when we think of 007 James bond the sexy elegant British agent who has Queen and country in his noble deeds. This is not the case. These companies can take all of your personal information, control where Google and other search engines send you, give you vast amounts of pop-ups, and slow your computer down to a crawl!!! The worst offender is a program called Gator which is most commonly caused by loading a music sharing program named Kazaa. If you have Kazaa and clean off Gator it will not run. Kazaa-Lite is Kazaa without Gator. For more on this check out the website
www.scumware.com and look at the original rant. To get rid of Spy-Ware, I use a free program called Adware 6.0 it is available at
www.lavasoft.de from the downloads section. two tricks to using it... check for updates before you run it the first time, the definition file it comes with is old. Also, if you right click on an item in the list (once it finishes the scan) you can select all.
2) Lots of Temporary files. What happens when your computer locks up, and you turn it off and turn it back on? Temporary files are left undeleted in the C:\WINDOW\TEMP directory. Every time you turn on you computer it has to check each file in this directory. Every time you load a program that uses Temp files, it has to check each file. It can slow your computer way down. You are generally OK closing all extra windows and deleting all of the files ending in TMP from that directory and rebooting (shut-down/restart not power off power on)
3) Cookies...I never tell people that they have to clear all of their cookies; they taste good with milk. Each time you go to a website your computer has to check the list of these cookies and look for one for that website. Most people have lots of cookies, but erasing them is a pain..Oh, I guess I should explain what a cookie is...Well, when you log in to the Dis, let's say, you type in your username and password. The next time you log onto the Dis, it remembers who you are! This information is stored in a cookie. If you notice Adware gets rid of lots of cookies that give out personal information
4) Defragmenting the Hard Drive...If every time you looked at a page of a bill, you wrote down where you put it and stuck it on the top of a pile of pages from bills. This does not seem like the best way to keep information, but it is a simplified way of looking at how windows files stuff. It can very quickly find individual pages in that stack, but it does take time, especially when you have huge files. De fragmenting puts all of the pages together. I have a couple of things about defrag, I usually turn off the screen saver, and I make sure that the computer doesn't turn the hard drives off after so much time (always on).
Was this too techie?
Of to take Lauren to get her orthotics checked. So glad insurance picked up the bill for those babies!!
, so here it goes:
