Released on: March 18, 2008, 9:57 pm

Press Release Author: prakash sharma

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Do you find that your computer exhibits one or more of the
following behaviors? Inexplicable message or warning pop-ups- Frequent unsolicited
reboots - Your favorite application often crashes - Applications now start up
sluggishly - Your computer seems to take forever to boot up .


Press Release Body: Do you find that your computer exhibits one or more of the
following behaviors?

- Inexplicable message or warning pop-ups

- Frequent unsolicited reboots

- Your favorite application often crashes

- Applications now start up sluggishly

- Your computer seems to take forever to boot up

- You find new software running which you did not expressly install, and you cannot
explain it\'s existence

Your computer may simply have become cluttered with software to such a degree that
all those programs now fight with each other for resources, or a particular type of
software installed (with malicious intent or otherwise) could produce adverse side
effects and may even compromise your system\'s health and security. Even if your PC
does not appear to suffer from any of the symptoms above, chances are over time one
or more of these issues will surface.

So where should we look to find the root cause of such problems? In short, we can
attribute this abnormal behavior to:

1) Our not being vigilant in monitoring the list of software running (or not
running) on our system

2) Not being sufficiently mindful of how the installed software got there and why

Let me explain further. When one purchases a computer (or you inherit that
"hand-me-down" from your relative) you will typically find a potpourri of software
already installed. Furthermore, you will probably never use 80 f it. In addition,
you may find yourself unable to resist the temptation to download and install
freeware/shareware from the internet.

All too often we really do not need the programs we download, but refraining from
doing so can be difficult due to the software\'s enticing promo. And regardless of
the utility of these programs, many times we don\'t bother to uninstall them,
thinking we may find a use for them in the future.

Just recently while browsing through a forum; I saw a post with the following
opening line: I just had to reformat the family computer for the second time in
three months because of my brother\'s blatant ignorance of general computer hygiene.
I can assure you that such behavior is commonplace. The various computers in my own
home are a prime example. On numerous occasions my two children, who by the way, are
old enough to know better, downloaded and installed software which essentially
rendered their PCs unusable, thus costing me hours of work to get them back into
working condition.

If you take nothing else away from this article, try to embrace the following two
thoughts:

- Not being aware of every program installed, and particularly which ones get
invoked by default at startup time, could cause your system to become highly
unstable, resulting in frequent crashes, loss of data, or possibly even irreparable
hardware damage.

- Try at all costs to refrain from installing non-essential software.

While you may very well find an overabundance of non-essential software installed,
even more important is the fact that there may NOT be antivirus, firewall, or other
security/protection software running. Consider this point CRITICAL. The absence of
such software or it being improperly configured can set you up for disaster! In an
upcoming article we\'ll discuss the various "sleuthing" techniques for determining
just what software resides on your computer.

The object of the second point above is to simply use good judgment in deciding
which software goes and what stays on your computer. Sure, there\'s no harm in
keeping reputable software around such as that favorite game or multimedia player,
given that you know where it came from and you do at least use it occasionally.

OK, let\'s summarize our discussion. Start thinking now about your current software
and which programs you consider as really important to you or your family. Remove
everything else you can bear to part with. Furthermore, of the types of software you
feel you must keep, evaluate it\'s "utility". Some programs you may have obtained and
installed, and others were probably just pre-installed on your PC. You may want to
consider upgrading existing packages, or particularly in the latter case, other
similar software may exist which has a better feature set that can serve you better.


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