How to Obtain Microsoft Windows Updates

Obtaining updates for your Windows OS at regular intervals from Microsoft is a must to keep your Windows computer up-to-date and running smoothly.

Microsoft updates for your Windows system in general includes updates for your operating system, software and hardware, third-party device drivers and also bug fixes to help protect your computer frommalicious software and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

There are two ways to obtain Microsoft Windows updates:

1. Directly from the Microsoft Download Center, where you can choose your desired updated versions from the list of new and popular downloads.

1. By using Automatic Update feature in Windows. This is the recommended option of the two because by turning ON the automatic updates feature, Windows automatically searches and delivers all the critical and security updates to your computer and you never need to visit update web site to scan for updates. All you have to do is keep a check on an icon that appears in the notification area at the far right of your taskbar every time new updates are available for your system.

Here is how to turn ON Automatic Updates and help protect your Windows PC

1. Click Start ► Run… then type control and click OK to open Control Panel.
   

1. If your are viewing Control Panel in Classic View, click System and head on to Automatic Updates tab under system Properties windows and change settings for automatic updates.
   

   » Instead, if you are under control panel category view, click Performance and Maintenance ► click System, and then click the Automatic Updates tab to choose the update option you want. Update option Automatic is recommended as it automatically downloads and installs updates at your chosen time.

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Tips on How to Speed Up Your Computer

Computers are the most used innovation that has come up so far. It connects the bridges on people and allows us to have communication with our loved ones that are far from us. However, using our computers often can cause problems and eventually slow them down when we don’t take action on fixing them.

Listed here are tips on how to speed up computer:

• Remember to free up your disk space using disk clean-up or disk defragmenters. Unnecessary files like temporary internet files can slow down your computer so get rid of them, empty your recycle bins frequently, and make sure that your important files are placed on the external hard drive.

• Scan for viruses and worms, spyware and adware. Always check for these nasty programs because they make your computer work slowly more than anything. You need to purchase PC fixer software that can remove these programs.

• Clean up your desktop. If your desktop is flooded with files your computer will eventually function slowly.

• Uninstall unused programs. Your computer might have lots of unused programs installed on it; uninstall them because once a program is installed, it makes a connection between the program and the operating system which also make your system run slower even if you do not use them.

• Do not start up programs automatically when turning on your computer. Make sure that you close programs you do not use that open when you start up your computer.

• Defragment your hard drive. Defragmenting your hard drive places all of your information for each file in one place which will result to a faster computer experience.

These tips on how to speed up my PC might be able to solve your problems on your slow running computers. Following these tips are a big help on your troublesome computer systems.

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How-to Remove System Tool 2011 Virus Easily

Aias: System Tool 2011
Damage Level: Medium
Systems Affected: Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Image Credit – Life StreamsYou may have tried for hours trying to remove this virus just like I did in vain but finally here I found a very simple method to remove this malicious software made to look like a legitimate anti-virus program.Screen Shot Image:

1. All you have to do is enter the serial key to register “System Tool” and follow the rest of the steps.
   The key is WNDS-S0DF5-GS5E0-FG14S-2DF8G

1. After inputting this key wait for little and you PC will restart automatically and all is okay again.

1. Then you can go ahead and delete icon from desktop and remove the software from program.

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Windows Vista tweaks to speed up your system.

Default settings that Windows Vista comes with are more meant for hardware of future than hardware of today. If you are looking for your vista to run faster and perform better, it is essential that you optimize your Vista settings. Read on to find out 4 powerful Windows Vista tweaks to speed up your system.

• Tweak 1 ► Get Rid of Unnecessary Programs from System Start Up

One of the most powerful vista tweaks is to remove all unnecessary programs from the start up menu. Start up should only contain those bare minimum programs which are really necessary to be started up when your program boots. If there are some programs which are not that essential, but still need to be there in start-up, you can reschedule them to a lower priority & attach them to one of the multi-processes.

• Tweak 2 ► Turn off TCP Auto Tuning and Remote Differential Compression

Vista uses these to augment the gigabyte network. However, these end up being too much of an overhead for normal networking. The networking speed is enhanced by up to 30 percent when you disable these options.

• Tweak 3 ► Defrag Your Hard Disk

Over time, application and files become scattered in different places on your system’s hard disk, affecting the system’s performance greatly. When you defrag your disk, it brings all these scattered pieces together, thus, improving the Windows system’s speed. You can run the disk defragmenter from
Start ► Menu Programs ► Accessories ► System Tools ► Disk Defragmenter.

• Tweak 4 ► Disable the “System Restore” Feature

It was with Windows XP that this feature was first introduced. Windows Vista enhanced it further with introducing additional document versioning. Though it does sound very good and useful, it does have a great impact on the resources. If you think your system is already not running as it should be, you surely won’t want additional duplicates on your system further downgrading your system’s performance. Thus, another of effective vista tweaks would be to disable this feature.

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Losing Data is No Longer the End of the World

Data recovery is the last thing on our minds when we are busy.

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We’ve all been there. Despite knowing that we need to save our work at regular intervals and backup everything, there is always going to be that time when you’re engrossed in what you’re doing and have ploughed on regardless with that complex spreadsheet, calculations or report. You’ve almost finished, 5 o’clock is in sight, and backing up or saving your data is the last thing on your mind. But you can guarantee that will be exactly the moment when you have a power cut. And suddenly the screen is blank and everything has gone.

Even when you have been as careful as can be and saved every last meg on your external hard drive, you can never guarantee that your dog won’t decide to make a tasty meal out of it and have a good old chew.

Well breathe a sigh of relief as this no longer means the loss of all your hard work. Thankfully there are now expert data recovery organisations out there who can not only retrieve data you thought that you had lost, but can offer you a wealth of information and advice about how to stop it happening again. Both the emergency services and the GP of data recovery all-in-one.

These guys can also advise you on which of the wide range of data recovery systems and equipment are the best value for money and meet your individual needs.

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A Baker’s Dozen Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Mac

Whether you’re a recent convert, ambivalent veteran or one of those hardened Apple fanboys, let us remind you: a Mac, like any other computer, needs to be maintained. No, you probably don’t need anti-virus software (yet), you may never have to fiddle with registry editing, and you’ll likely never need to reinstall the operating system. But you may face a kernel panic, a raft of mysterious app crashes or the dreaded spinning beach ball of death. We’ve put together thirteen tips for keeping our Macs lean, clean computing machines. Spring has sprung, so, while you dust off your shelves and empty your closets, do some Mac maintenance, too.

1. Get a backup drive and use it.

Just do it already. We like Apple’s Time Machine because you set it and forget it, but options abound. (See our story on easy ways to back up.) Before anything else, put it on your to-do list and make it happen, lest you end up like the legions of sad-sack schmucks we regularly counsel when they have their laptops stolen or suffer a hard drive failure. So while you fold up your winter sweaters, have a backup going in the background. ‘Nuff said.

2. Dump unused apps.

Go through your Applications folder and take the opportunity to chuck out all those programs you never use — old versions of AIM, various peer-to-peer apps that are defunct, weird shareware for mounting serial-to-USB adapters and so on. With Macs, you’re almost always safe by simply dragging the application to the trash and emptying it. Some software, however, distributes itself throughout your system library, so it’s worth using software that hunts down all those miscellaneous files and chucks them too. (We like the free AppCleaner.) You’ll free up precious hard drive space and find it easier to locate the applications you actually use.

3. Wack your widgets.

We’ll admit to relying on a few handy widgets — we love iStat, for instance — but have also discovered that some widgets may end up being incredible resource hogs that can subtly eat up precious processing power, or even cause hang-ups and crashes. (Our homemade Web-clip Pandora widget was a real system killer.) Go to your Dashboard, then click the plus sign. Hit ‘Manage Widgets’ and, in the pop-up Widget Manager, un-check any you don’t use. For a deeper purge, go to Macintosh>Library>Widgets and permanently delete any of those files. (It will require you enter your admin password.)

4. Purge your fonts.

Believe it or not, fonts can be real bugbears that chew up serious processing power or cause all kinds of inexplicable conflicts that lead application and system crashes. By default, Apple installs tons of fonts for use by the system — which you shouldn’t delete — as well as dozens of optional ones that you can clear out if you don’t think you’ll ever need them (unless you plan on designing Web pages using Kanji or Cherokee script). Open Font Book (in Applications), and select User to see the ones you’ve installed. Alternatively, select All Fonts, and select and delete any you don’t need. If it’s an important system font, a warning will pop up; definitely do not delete those, or you’ll risk harming your system.

5. Clear off your desktop.

If you’re like our parents, your desktop is littered with the detritus of literally hundreds of e-mail forwards, groan-worthy Powerpoint photo assemblages and unused MS Word files from 2002. Besides being the computer equivalent of living in abject squalor, desktop hoarding also saps processing power, as your Mac tracks and updates quick-look info constantly for every file and folder on your desktop. Clean those up, get in the habit of popping ’em in folders, and scoot the folders into sub-folders within your Users>Documents folder. For easy access, drag that folder to the Dock beside the trash, and you’ll have one-click access to everything.

6. Get permissions in order.

Experts disagree, but we’ll take Apple’s word: if you’ve found your Mac slowing down, spinning that beach ball, or suffering application crashes, it’s time to do some maintenance. Thankfully it’s very easy. Launch ‘Disk Utility’ (in Applications>Utilities) and select your hard drive in the left column. In the panel on the right, click ‘Repair Disk Permissions,’ which runs a Unix routine to correct any creeping errors in your startup disk. Depending on how long it’s been since you last did this, how fast your processor is, or how messed up your system is, it’ll take anywhere from two minutes to ten. Let it do its thing, and then be amazed at how much faster things run.

7. Go monolingual.

By default, your Mac comes preloaded with a bevy of foreign languages, which is convenient if you’re a polyglot, but is otherwise an extravagant waste of space if you just stick to one tongue. In order to work correctly, that means that every application Apple loads on your system contains the necessary files to work in multiple languages. You can safely delete these and potentially free up a few gigs on your hard drive. (We got back more than 3GB — a huge savings for an old laptop.) You could do it manually, but ‘Monolingual’ is free software that’ll do it for you, while making sure to not delete crucial files that prevent your Mac from functioning properly. Run it after every software update, since language packs are added back in. Once again, with emphasis added: do a system backup before running it in case things go sour. (Click here for a superb rundown on how to use ‘Monolingual’ correctly.)

8. Jam up your RAM.

For your Mac to run smoothly, especially when you have a bunch of applications open simultaneously or if you do video or audio editing, you need to have a lot of RAM installed. A base model MacBook comes with 2GB. (Just running the OS requires one gig.) RAM is extremely cheap these days, so hit up your favorite online store (and we like Crucial.com) to figure out what type you need. For a hundred bucks or so, you’ll turbocharge your Mac.

9. Give your hard drive a little space.

While RAM is important to a smoothly running Mac, a lesser-known albatross is also a hazardous one. Like New York real estate, space is crucial. Take a look at your hard drive; it turns out you should have a minimum of about 10-percent of your space free at all times, especially if you’re regularly using large files for processes like video, audio or photo editing. If your drive ever gets below that amount, your Mac will slow down. When you start hitting the few hundred megabytes danger zone, you’ll likely start crashing, too. Worst case: It may get so full it won’t reboot at all. If you’ve run out of things to delete (and you ought to grab WhatSize to see the biggest offenders), it may be time to upgrade to a larger hard drive.

10. Cut off over-eager apps.

If you’re experiencing constant, annoying spinning beach balls and are nowhere near a Dave Matthews concert, the first place to head is the ‘Activity Monitor.’ (Go to Applications>Utilities to find it.) Click on the CPU tab and look to the top of the list to see what is chewing up processing power; select anything unnecessary and hit the red stop sign icon to kill it. If it’s a system process or has an especially funky name — or a “kernel task” — proceed with caution. You may be forced to reboot, but no permanent damage will be done. Another quick fix for stalled applications is clicking on the Apple icon drop-down menu at the top left of the screen and selecting the application that has stopped responding. Or, as we like to call it, “Force Quitting” — not to be confused with “Force Choking.” (Pro tip: If you’re so stuck that even drop-downs won’t respond, try holding Command+Option+Esc for the same function.)

11. Bootstrap your boot up.

A number of intrusive applications simply love to be the first in line when you start up your Mac, which is often the reason it can take forever. (We’re talking about you, Skype and AIM.) Head to System Preferences>Accounts and select your user name, then click on ‘Login Items.’ Then un-check any applications or services you don’t want to automatically boot when you log in. If you spy any old software or ones you’ll never want, hit the minus button to delete them from the list.

12. Take it outside.

If you do any kind of regular video or audio editing, or even high-level Photoshop, using your internal hard drive to store data will not only fill it quickly, but will also slow it to a crawl. Get a big, high-speed external hard drive (preferably one that runs at 7,200 RPMs or more), and use it as your “scratch disk” for all of that stuff. You’ll be amazed at how much faster your Mac runs, and how much space you’ll save on your hard drive.

13. Thin out iPhoto.

Apple’s photo-organizing software is notorious for being a hard drive filler. Not only does it duplicate any photo or movie you drag to it, it also keeps an original of every photo you modify as well as the modified version. Multiply this by a few thousand photos (each a few megabytes) and you’re looking at tens of gigs of wasted space. Manually going through them all is a time suck — and will fatally corrupt iPhoto’s library database — so try using software such as ‘Duplicate Annihilator.’ Depending on the size of your library and speed of your Mac, it can literally take a day or two to process everything, but you’ll be amazed by how much space you get back. And be sure to make a backup of your library before any fiddling attempts.

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Recover Data From Your Macintosh Computer!

Are you overwhelmed by the fear of losing essential data from your Macintosh computer? Are you pretty unsure about how to tackle the situation if you suddenly lose access to the files stored in your Mac? Don’t fret! There isn’t much for you to bother about considering the fact that you are after all using an Apple computer!

Although it is always better to have a backup of all your vital documents, data recovery isn’t going to be unattainable task even if you lose data. Mac computers come with a useful application known as Time Machine.

This is the ultimate answer to your prayers in case you lose data. This software keeps multiple backups of the data stored in your Mac and hence can be readily availed if ever you accidentally delete vital data from the computer.

However, this tool requires an additional hard drive, so make sure that you get a backup drive for your Mac in a bid to store copies of your files. In addition to this, you can also avail the Migration Assistant software found in Mac computers. This facility would permit you to transfer files from one Mac to another and facilitate the process of saving copies of your data.

Another feature of Mac computers that can be of great help in case you lose data is the Disk Utility application. This tool provides you with systematic guidelines in burning all your important files in CDs or DVDs.

If these applications are not enough to keep you reassured about recovering lost data from your Macintosh computer, you can seek online technical support

Enhanced Mac Recovery Utility to Recover Your Data From Any Troubled iMac

Among many offerings of Apple, iMac is really a range of Macintosh desktop computer systems. Apple has introduced iMac in late 90s and because then, this all-in-one Mac system has evolved via 5 distinct types. With many advanced functions and functionalities, iMac continues to be the center of fascination of many Mac customers. Occasionally, users encounter sudden freezing of iMac. This might occur within the mi

ddle of watching a film, browsing Internet or transferring files from any external media.

Beneath this kind of situations, the consumer doesn’t discover any choice other than hard boot to get to normalcy. But, following such a process of freezing and hard boot, occasionally, iMac both stops responding with the grey wheel or simply halts in the booting screen, leaving all of your data inaccessible. This kind of a situation could be handled with a Mac recovery utility to deliver the inaccessible information back.

You may ponder over the incidence that the Mac program was just operating fine before a tough boot and never responding now. There can be a quantity of feasible factors behind exactly the same. It could be a virus/malware attack, a corruption towards the file system, operating program malfunction or may be some contradiction with any other set up application. But, at the finish of it, the one factor that arrives into your mind is that the data within the Mac hard generate is completely inaccessible and also you need to perform any Mac information recovery operation to retrieve back again the data.

Amongst all this panic of loosing valuable data, one soothing fact is the fact that what ever be the cause behind the information loss, your information through the media is by no means gets permanently lost. The information is quite safe and lies nearly because it is someplace within the media memory until that is being overwritten by another information. Hence, in the event you can guard your information against becoming overwritten, you have sufficient chance of recovering the same.

These information recovery Mac software program are developed with various revolutionary algorithms to research with the Mac OS X primarily based media and retrieve the data back. These superior Mac recovery software program are totally read-only in their recovery operations and you need not have to worry just a little for just about any type of data erasing or modification. Moreover, with wealthy graphical consumer interface and well explained directions, any user with out getting a lot technical information can also have the ability to make use of the software without any other assistance.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Information Recovery is really a highly appreciable Mac recovery utility, which may help you recover your lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible information from the Mac OS based drives under any instance of information reduction. The software program is compatible with Mac OS X 10.3.nine, 10.4, 10.five, ten.6 and is absolutely risk-free in its recovery operations.file recovery mac

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