DO IT YOURSELF! This page shows you how to do basic task on your computer to help keep it in tip-top shape. If you are having any problems or questions about the proper way to work the tasks found on this page then shoot us an email and we will walk you through it step by step. Be sure to stop in from time to time. More will be added on a regular basis! Thanks for visiting.
UNLOCK THE TRUE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT IN VISTA1.Right click on the start menu.
2. Select all programs to open the explorer menu.
3. Select accessories to open up the explorer menu.
4. Right click the Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
5. Now type the following that you see in figure 1.1 (If unable to read the image you type…………. Net user administrator /active:yes
Image 1.1
6. Now just hit enter and you should be given the true administrator
account that will give you full control over Vista(At least as much as
Microsoft allows).
Now to disable it you would just put Active:no at the end of the
code. Just for you information you should use a standard/limited
account for safer browsing. Refer to Tips to Lock Down You PC for more information on basic security.
SECURING YOUR PC-Do you have trouble sleeping at night for fear of hijackers,
keyloggers, and other little nasties that could cause damage? Well here
before you are a couple of tips to get your PC as tight as a whistle.
1.
Strong Password- Don't go over kill. At one time it was believed that
passwords resembling B10g$p0t (Blogspot) were the perfect passwords. I
beg to differ now. A great password would be a phrase that is
15characters long. Put a number in there somewhere. Here is an example
of a very strong password....
Idrivea4doorfordexplorer Do
not use spaces. Just run them all in together. This is stronger than
the Blogspot password above. Try it out and see. Also if you have a
phrase it takes less time to search the keyboard for uncommonly used
numbers and you are alot less likely to forget the password than the
manipulated word.
2. Use a limited account- Do not sign on with
an Administrator account . It is simple. The more access to a system
that a hijacked account has the more damage can be done. The most
significant reason to using limited user accounts is that you cannot do
certain things. Download, download malicious software, download......
you get the picture. If you trust a site and you want to download
something then log onto as administrator. Malicious programs can
download in the background with out you ever knowing it. Using a
limited user account keeps this background software from downloading.
Do you see now!
3. Get good AV- Anti virus protection is not
created equally. You will want to find an AV program that uses Hijacker
Prevention Technology. Do not be confused onto thinking that Prevention
and Detection are the same. detection will tell you when you are
hacked. Prevention will help to stop the hijacker from entering. Lets
say some one is breaking into you house. All you have is an alarm that
will sound but not notify the police. That alarm doesn't help. Get AV
that use Prevention so that when the intruder cracks a window open the
alarm sounds and the police are on the way. This is the way to go!
USING DISK DEFRAGMENTER AND DISK CLEANUP THE RIGHT WAY
You may have heard about how important it is to use disk defragmenter and disk cleanup. However you may not have heard that their is a right way and a wrong way. Do you use Defragmenter first or cleanup up first? Many people who I talk to say that they run defragmenter first. Sorry to say that this is wrong. The proper way is to use disk defragmenter second. If you use it first you will arrange the hard drive so that everything that goes together is in the right place. So what happens of you defragment then pull unused/temp/trash files off of the hard drive. At this point you are now stuck with a fraged drive. See my point. Clear out the old files and then defrag.
To use disk cleanup do the following....
Click the start menu> hover over programs programs to open up the explorer> click accessories> click on system tools> now just click Disk Cleanup.
The program will prompt you as to what to do from here.
To use Disk Defragmenter do the following.
Click the start menu> hover over programs to open up the explorer> click accessories> click on system tools> now just click Disk Defragmenter.
Run defragmenter about once every other month. Unless you add and remove programs on a regular basis this is about all you will need.
CLOSE PROGRAMS USING TASK MANAGER
Ever heard of pressing ctrl+alt+del. When you do this you will have several options. One of them is to use Task Manager. If a program is not responding and will not close do this....
1. Press ctrl+alt+del
2. Click on Task Manager.
3.On the applications tab you will see programs that are running.
4. Click on time on the program and select end task.