Geek Tips
Some ideas to help keep your computer easier to use and running better.
- Get A Virus Scanner
- It's really impossible to emphasize this one too much.
These days, all you have to do is view an email to get a virus.
A virus scanner is extremely recommended. McAfee
is what I use.
- Organizing Programs
- By default, every program you install puts its shortcuts in your Start menu's
Programs folder. After awhile you've got a huge list of things there.
Try creating a few folders under that and moving things around to organize:
"Games", "Utilities", "Demos", and anything else you need.
This can help you find things quicker than looking at a huge list.
Note: if you move existing Programs folders on your computer, it will
very likely mess up the uninstaller so they won't remove the Programs folders--but
you can do that yourself..
If you install things using folders from the start, uninstallers will work fine.