Buying On The Internet
Security is of major importance to almost everyone making a purchase, online. If I enter my credit card info will it be safe?
The short answer is, yes.
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How to Cancel Hotmail Account
The only way to permanently close your MSN Hotmail account is to not login to your hotmail account for 90 days. |
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Maintaining A Healthy Hard Drive
Maintaining a healthy hard drive is essential for optimal computer performance. Using your computers system tools is a good start in accomplishing this goal. Although there are several tools for maintaining your hard drive, the two primary tools are ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter. They can be accessed by clicking the following: "Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools" - then choose accordingly. Here is a description of what each tool does.
SCANDISK
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Protect Your PC
If you have gone from a dial-up modem to a DSL or cable modem broadband Internet connection, you desperately need to protect your data. These newer connections provide a static IP address so you are always connected to the Internet. That exposes you to the same "hacking and cracking" scenarios as the big boys on the web. There are two main actions to take - 1. Turn off printer and file sharing, and 2. Add a firewall between your PC and the Internet. |
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Speed Up Your Browser
There are a couple of things you can do to speed up you browser, but in the long run anything you do will affect the way you view the Web. The best thing is to purchase or upgrade to a faster modem. Since we all may not be able to go out and buy a new modem, here are a few tips you can try to speed up you Web experience. |
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Speed up your Drives
There are a few settings to change that will allow windows to read ahead on your drives, thus improving performance. |
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Speed up your Swap File
Window's swap file is hard disk space that is used when Windows runs out of memory. This Virtual Memory being used by Windows can slow the system. A solution that may work for you is to move the swap file to a different drive and/or faster drive.
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