Microsoft regularly issues updates


Are you the sort of person who buys a new car and then keeps it like a museum piece through out its life, vacuuming out every donut crumb, checking the air pressure in the tires weekly, and changing the oil every 2,999 miles before proceeding one inch farther as time goes on? Or do you let the pizza boxes pile up in the back seat, let the air slowly leak out of the tires, and allow the engine oil to turn to sludge?

If you're the first type of owner, your car is going to last longer, operate more efficiently, and hold on to its value for a much longer period of time. If you're not, your car will slow down daily and one morning refuse to start at all.

It's pretty much the same thing with laptop computers. Not the part about the engine oil and the air in the tires: The stuff about the importance of keeping everything in tip- top mechanical condition and how unless you, one day the machine won't go. Remember three very important concepts about personal computers:

- Every time you use your laptop saving a file, deleting a file, installing a program, making a change to a setting, or connecting to the Internet you leave the machine in a different condition than it was before you started. Files are moved on your travels on the hdd, they become fragmented (more about this later), and miscellaneous pieces of temporary files are scattered about hither and yon (think of them as donut crumbs).

- Microsoft regularly issues updates, security patches, and repairs to current versions of Windows. Somehow they're acknowledgments of the fact that the operating system was very poor when first released and (more disturbingly) has been the subject of malicious to join the chattering chorus of Microsoft- maligners. The world isn't perfect, and some of its occupants are unpleasant folk.

- The makers of other programs and utilities regularly update or repair their products. Based on the settings you establish for products you install within your operating system, these new bits of code are either automatically sent to your laptop over the internet and installed, or you receive notification that updates are available. In general, you should configure your antivirus and other security utilities so that they're automatically updated; this helps your system fight off the latest viruses and other malware floating out there on the web and in e- mail. So far as other programs, you may make your own decisions regarding updates.

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This article was sent to us by: Emanuel Moreno at 08192010

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