computer tips

10 Top Safety Computer Tips

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Your computer holds some of your most important—and private—information, so we’ve written down the 10 top safety computer tips that help you keep your computer and your information safe. Some tips are very common but are often over looked. Safety Computer Tips #1: Use Anti-Virus Software Anti-virus software is your best protection against the worst [...]

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Don’t Tell Your Boss About These Computer Tips

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I once read a study that said typical office workers only work 1.5 hours a day—if that applies to you, you might find the following computer tips useful to keep the boss from finding out what you do the other 6.5 hours a day. I take no responsibilty for how you use these computer tips [...]

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7 Computer Tips You Won’t Learn From Your Mom

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When I was a kid, I learned a bunch of computer tips from other kids which I used to hide things from my parents. Although this article talks about ways to avoid parental surveillance, it’s really written for parents. We want you to know how your kids might use the computer in ways you don’t [...]

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10 Computer Maintenance Tips To Avoid A Slow Computer

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We all know and accept that we have to maintain our cars to ensure that they are running nicely, but we often ignore that a computer needs the same attention. It is a simple formula that people choose to disregard. Computers are an important part of our lives and to deprive them of computer maintenance [...]

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Top 10 Tasks For The Ultimate Computer Maintenance

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If Benjamin Franklin had a computer, he’d probably say, “A minute of computer maintenance is worth an hour of computer repair.” It’s true—occasional computer maintenance will save you considerable time and money down the line. We have many computer maintenance tips and even a computer maintenance checklist, however these tips are about entire computer maintenance, [...]

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Files To Backup Before You Reinstall Windows

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When you reinstall Windows, all of the files on your main partition will be destroyed, so you absolutely should make a backup. I suggest a complete system backup to ensure that you don’t miss anything, but here is a list of the top 10 most important files to backup if you just want to cherry [...]

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10 Basic Computer Tips And Tricks For New Computer Users

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One of the worst things that can happen when you first start using computers is to have some kid sit down next to you and do everything you’re doing in half as much time, so we’ve put together 10 basic computer tips and tricks for new computer users that will improve your productivity and let [...]

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10 Tips For Computer Safety When Browsing The Internet

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The Internet is a scary place—and it’s only gotten scarier in the last few years of professional fraud and scams, so we’ve written down 10 tips for computer safety when browsing the Internet to help you keep yourself safe. Previously we have written about how to protect your computer from viruses, virus removal software, and [...]

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Top 10 Basic computer user tips

April 29, 2011

There are thousands of basic computer tips on this website alone, however in this article I am going to narrow it down to only the top 10 tips. These computer tips will be extremely handy for the newbie computer user. Learn how to shutdown your computer correctly. This is very important and is often taken [...]

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Computer Buying Tips 2011

April 29, 2011

Technology improves by the minute as times change so here are my computer buying tips for 2011. I write a new article every year about buying computers, and every year the articles are very popular. Last year I wrote about computer buying tips for 2010. This article is still has some great information in it [...]

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Computer Tips – Import Facebook Contact Emails Into Yahoo Mail And Gmail

January 25, 2011

Import Facebook Contact Emails Into Yahoo Mail And Gmail Not many people know that you can import Facebook contact emails and save them to your computer. In fact people don’t even realize that when you sign up a Facebook, your e-mail is available to anyone that you become a friend to. I know myself, that [...]

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