Basic geek tips

Basic geek tips:

1. Whenever dragging and dropping files in Windows, always use your RIGHT mouse button. Why? Windows loves to play bad psychic and assume what you want to do. Windows chooses for you weather to copy, move, or create a shortcut depending on it's mood, I think, not what we want. If you drag and drop with the right mouse button you will always get a nice little menu asking you what you want to do instead of having Windows guessing for you.

2. Windows has NO CLUE if programs are working. If Windows tells you a program is (Not Responding) that does NOT mean it has crashed. Windows will say a crashed program is running and a running program is not responding. If a program is in the middle of a process, like rendering a file or downloading a file, windows will say it's not responding when it's only thinking and will eventually come out of it. The best way to tell what a program is going is by looking at the process in task manager.

3. Consider your computer a ticking time bomb about to go off. The hardware is usually designed to last only two years or so. What would you lose if your hard drive kicked the bucket right now? BOOM!! Power surges can come through phone lines as well as the power outlet. What if lightening struck tonight? What if you got a virus that erased every file on your hard drive? I've seen this. I've seen people cry! I've seen people lose months of work, some even years, because they did not back up. The people I see that do back up have usually had a crash before. Learn from them, and don't become a victim. It happens more often than you know. Invest in a CD burner, or better yet, a DVD burner, and back up often. One day you'll be SO GLAD you did.

4. Every machine needs maintenance. Your PC is no different. Make backups, run defrag, run scandisk, update and run an antivirus program, update and run spyware removal programs, and run Windows Update on a regular basis.

5. Name your PC and say nice things to it. Sing to it. Don't hurt it's feelings. Buy it new toys and upgrades often. Appease the Computer Gods with an offering of flowers or pretty stones or bobbles on the full moon.

Just kidding on that last one, maybe, but it couldn't hurt. HAHAHAHA

I hope this helps.