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UPS. UPS in this context does not mean United Parcel Service, it means Uninterruptible Power Supply. This is a battery that sits between the wall socket and your computer. If there is a power outage or brownout, the UPS instantly kicks in and keeps your system from crashing.

Depending on the size (and cost) of the UPS, it can keep your system running for a few minutes or for several hours. A large hospital will have huge (and expensive) UPS’s that will keep their computers up for as long as it takes to fire up their backup power generators! This is something that I would appreciate if I were having open-heart surgery at the moment of a blackout, but it is probably beyond the budget of the small business owner or home PC user.

For those of us on a budget, a small UPS may be the best insurance policy we could buy. A small UPS will keep your system running for 5-10 minutes. The purpose is not for you to keep working (as it would in the hospital scenario,) the purpose is to give you enough time to save your work and perform an orderly shutdown. It could save you a fortune in lost data. Another benefit of a UPS is that some of them (the good ones) act as a super surge protector. At least one on the market is warranted to stop a direct lightning strike! It will self-destruct in the process, but it will stop the surge from hitting your PC. That’s a lot of protection for about $100.

A wise old computer guru once told me that the value of a PC is not in the cost of the hardware, the value of a PC is in the data that you store on it. You can always write a check for new hardware, but what will it cost you if you lose your data? Could it be replaced for ANY amount of money? If you depend on a PC for your livelihood, a UPS can be the single best hardware investment you can make.

If your PC freezes, you can restart it using Ctrl-Alt-Delete at the same time. Hold on the “Control “key, hold on the “Alt” key then hit the “Delete” button. If that doesn’t reboot your computer, hit the power button at the front of your computer. If that doesn’t work, pull the plug on the PC. Plug it back in, hit the power button and it will start back up

Clean your RAM:You may recognize that your system gets slower and slower when playing and working a lot with your PC. That’s cause your RAM is full of remaining progress pieces you do not need any more. So create a new text file on your desktop  and name it something like “RAMCleaner” TypeFreeMem=Space(64000000)in this file and save it as RAMcleaner.vbs [ You may choose the "All Files" option when u save it]Run the file and ur RAM may be cleaned :>Of course u can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”. FreeMem=Space(1280000000)

1.Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

2.Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.

3.Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).

4.Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM

5.Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.

6.Delete the temporary internet files regularly.

7.Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.

8.Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.

9.When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.

10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.

RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

You can get it back:

Click Start then Run and type “gpedit.msc” without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configuration
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Recently Identity theft and Spyware have been closely related as far as the media is concerned.

Not that they are wrong. Spyware as the name says is like a virus or trojan that records your keystroked and information you enter into your PC.

The problem is that Spyware and Adware are used in the same context which they shouldn’t be.

For 95% of computer users Adware (unwanted pop-ups, ads, replacing words with links and the like) are on their PC, NOT SPYWARE.

I use the term spyware on this article for the same reason, because it’s commonly associated with Adware even though it’s not the same.

To detect and remove Spyware you will want to get a Virus scanner/monitor program. A great FREE one I recommend is Antivir which you can get here.

However you’re probably reading this because of Adware in the case I recommend you get the FREE ad-aware from Lavasoft USA here (go to the website then scroll down, on the left click the word “DOWNLOAD” and follow the instructions).

You should have both of these programs on your PC and run the ad-aware package at least once a month or upgrade it and let it monitor your computer.