Basic PC Maintenance

A PC needs a little preventive maintenace to ward off sluggishness and errors. Here are three simple steps that you can take to help keep your PC working smoothly. The following tips work for Windows XP and Vista.

Get rid of clutter by running Disk Cleanup. You will find Disk Cleanup in your System Tools folder which you can reach by going to your Start menu, All Programs, Accessories, System tools. Once you click the Disk Cleanup tool, you will need to select the drive you want to clean up. Choose C and wait while the program scans your drive. Once it finishes scanning…

Software Security

No vulnerable softwareIt seems that lately there have been a lot of security vulnerabilities found in many of the most commonly used software. Unfortunately, many of us don't have the time (or desire) to go through all our installed software looking for updates just to stay safe online. Here's one solution; instead of having to subscribe to vulnerability reports and sift through security advisories (many which have nothing to do with your installed programs), you can…

Spyware Prevention with Spywareblaster

Spywareblaster Protection Status

To kick-off the PC security category, I'm going to talk about a freeware gem called Spywareblaster. It is one of the first programs that I install on all my PCs. Spywareblaster helps prevent spyware from getting installed on your PC and is a set it and forget it program which means it doesn't need to be running in the background to do it's job…