Steps for taking care of your computer.

1. Every month defrag your hardrive by finding the "Disk Defragmenter" usually in the system tools directory in the Accessories folder on the start menu.

2. Download CCleaner and clean your cookies and temporary internet files every week or month. You will be surprised how much memory will be freed after cleaning your cookies! Also scan for registry errors and fix all of them, doing so will impact your system performance greatly.

3. Make sure the programs/tools you download do not have any viruses. Hackers can easily crypt their files to make the program go unnoticed by your anti-virus, or they can make their file disable your anti-virus as soon as you run it. Always research the program before you download it and stay away from warez and P2P sites. A good anti-virus that hackers with less experience have a hard time bypassing is "Malwarebytes" and in most cases "Kaspersky". Most of the hackers are just "script kiddies" that post fake warez, music and movies infected with their file... so your best bet is to just stay away from warez and pirated music/movies. If you are not sure if the program is safe or not, download a virtual machine, (VMware is recommended) or SandBoxie. Sandboxie is a free tool that takes a small portion of your hard drive and makes it so once a file is executed through it, nothing can get out. All you have to do once SandBoxie is installed is right click a file and go to "Run in SandBoxie" then a SandBoxie control box comes up and you can see the processes the file creates. So if the file creates suspicious processes (usually they inject into svchost.exe, searchindexer.exe and mostly explorer.exe) then immediately delete the file and try to find a different download.

4. Uninstall unwanted or unused programs, and delete unwanted or unused files. Make sure to empty your recycle bin every now and then!

5. Disable startup programs that you don't use. Doing this will make your booting time a lot faster. To view what programs start up when you login your user profile go to run by pressing the windows key+R and type in the box "msconfig". Once it has loaded go to the startup tab, all of the programs that run when you login are in a list. Make sure you don't disable the startup of important programs like drivers! Or you can do this easily on CCleaner.


There you go! You just saved money by doing this yourself instead of taking your ass up to the best buy or a local computer shop getting your computer tuned up or fixed.

Pink Floyd, The wall- Comfortably Numb

Living

To be successful in life you must have no fear, no regrets and no pain.

What gets you up in the morning to go to work? Ask yourself... What motivates you? Money? A woman or man? Your children? Your family?

If you don't think your good enough for anything... start believing in yourself, you can do it. Willpower is one of the keys to success.