How to Have a Healthy Personal Computer

Here are some practical tips to keep your computers from imminent harm in the days or even perhaps in the months ahead.

1. As much as possible don’t delete manually an application from your hard drive if it is not necessary. Doing this might leave you some orphan files that could congest hard drive space.

2. If you are not utilizing a high-end computers or personal computers that boasts off great or latest specifications, it is a bad idea to open multiple files at the same time. Windows will lock or freeze itself if it is given too much job to work with. Also keep an eye on the background of your computer. Make sure you close unnecessary programs that are running. Clicking Ctrl-Alt-Del will let you see the different running programs.

3. Run scan disk preferably once a month to safeguard the integrity of your hard disk.

4. Have your computer installed with Anti-Virus to keep you away from viruses such as worms, trojans, malwares, spywares and the likes. Frequent usage of USBs and frequent downloading of files in the internet and even opening restricted sites are known to carry harmful viruses. Viruses are capable of dismantling your computer systemsand as your computer is infected you might need the services of PC technician to restore your operating system which can be an added burden on your part.

5. Back up your files. Windows 98, XP, Vista and Windows 7 have their own back up utilities that can readily utilize through System Tools.

6. Defragment computer once a month. Installing and uninstalling programs properly may hepl your hard drive get fragmented.

7. If your system freezes or crashes, click Ctrl, Alt, and Del at the same time to shut down your computer right away. Turning off the computer at this state might aggravate some problems and if possible always press Ctrl, Alt and Del simultaneously.

8. Know your system tools very well and know how to use them properly may save your computer from harm and danger.

Ways to Prevent or Avoid E-mail Hacking

Ways to Prevent or Avoid E-mail Hacking – How to stop e-mail or email hacking? This article gives your tips and pointers to avoid e-mail hacking. When you are in the Internet nothing seems to be safe. The personal information about you and your personal messages on your e-mail account can be a subject of series of attacks from e-mail hackers. The targets of this unscrupulous Internet menace are usually the celebrities, influential and wealthy people and can be a simple folks. The modus operandi of these people is to ask for money from the relatives of the person being attacked by an email hacker saying that the alleged victim is stranded or was been a victim of robbery or the likes. And the result, it may cause panic to relatives or friends of the person being hacked and soon enough money will be sent to the hackers.

Here are some ways of protecting the integrity of your e-mail accounts and any personal information about you.

• Change your passwords every three months, but if you can do it often the better, be sure though that you know your new password very well and you may write your passwords in a notepad or sticky note to avoid confusion
• Use separate e-mail accounts, one for personal use and one for business use.
• Use a variety of letters and numbers with your accounts, usually the longer the better.
• Always sign out after using computers with Internet connections especially when you are in a public place (computer rentals or Internet Café)
• Do not open suspicious looking e-mails from strange or unfamiliar e-mail senders, these may contain virus or key loggers.
• As much as possible do not reveal your e-mail address publicly just like in your official fan page in Facebook, e-mail hackers might exploit this.
• If you have an account that contains valuable information and has connections with your money accounts like Paypal, it is wise to refrain from opening your accounts in public place there might be some key loggers implanted with their computers.
•  Here it is, I hope this article will be beneficial to you.

Have Fun with Icons

Want to have further fun with your computer, or perhaps just add penache and style to your desktop windows? If you want to give your computer something for a change, using elegant and truly enjoying ions to your computer, there is a site that will surely help you dish out some fun further.

Icons here have different categories such as the Latest, Most Downloads, Most Popular and Small Icons. Icon galleries is comprised of Art, Application, Animal, Business, Cartoons, Computer, Food, Funny, Holidays, People, Sports, System, Vector, GIF, PNG, Web Icons and among others freebies.

Bear in mind that the icons bear copyright from original authors and for non-commercial use, if you intend to use for whatever purpose, you need to mention the authors.
Have Fun Playing With The Icons!
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More on Netiquettes and Techtiquettes

This article contains some ways to act properly (proper ethics) with today’s technology like e-mails and cellphones, For now we are aware that the fortune a chain letter can give is not rewarding  after all and besides this is prohibited in the Internet so as to speak. Now here is a lists of . Picking up a call while in the middle of a conversation will annoy your friend for his thoughts that was built by some sort of momentum was disrupted especially with your irritating ringtones. Texting inside a cinema. You need not reply every messages in your e-mail or through your cellphones. Whoa, replying all of them might make spend a lot of your precious energy, time and effort. Reply only those that are relevant and those that ask questions. If you received a statement, you may open to reply or not. Refrain from using emoticons in business-email, this little thing will certainly hurt your professional image. Moreover, do not use acronyms like LOL, ROFL and the likes with your business e-mails. This doesn’t sounds very businesslike and the same time this might throw off the people that reads your messages in to confusion. You may choose the option “ignore” certain buddies of friends since most social sites have this feature. This will allow you not to hurt the feelings of those who wants to befriend you yet you’re not interested. Also they will not received any notification that you rejected them. You may ask them directly why they would like to add you as a friend, this will help you discern whether it may end up as friend or a fiend, someone that was forgotten, or a friend that uses a new or other account or someone that be helpful to you in the near future.