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I'm a Computer guy and I notice that most people, from all walks of life, even those who are into computers, generally don't realize that the $600-1200 computer they just bought will be utterly destroyed by the end of the year in almost all cases because they're simply unaware of basic measures to perform to keep that from happening. I'll have gamers that went out and spent $1700 on a computer simply go out and buy another one after a year because theirs is completely destroyed. It's shocking. They're willing to go pay a paycheck for a computer but they're not willing to learn how to protect it. And you can only imagine if the gamers can't protect their computers (they can't) then the others are completely hopeless cases (they are).
After going through those stages myself when younger, and having spent probably $5-7k before realizing buying new computers wasn't the answer. I have reached a sweet spot. Have had the same system going for the last 3 years and it's still going from day 1 quality thanks to literally less than 5 steps that you should (and NEED to do) every week at bare minimum at least once unless forking over $1000+ for a new PC every year is just not an issue to you.
Key truths to know beforehand:
-Free antivirus, free anti spyware DOES NOT WORK. Corporations don't use them and they're all about getting the most for their dollar. If Corporations don't trust their crap $500 computers with free antivirus software, why do you think that is? (Here's a hint: It isn't because you know more than the corporations, you don't know more than their IT guys rest assured. Free antivirus programs ONLY protect you from the 500 newest threats created 4-5 months ago. In other words, the 50,000+ threats created in the last month they don't protect your computer against at all. In other words, free antiviruses are 100% worthless and do not actually protect your computer. Repeat. If you have free antivirus on your computer, your computer is actively being destroyed as we speak.)
-Paid antivirus software covers the latest virus definitions. It DOES work. Free antivirus software covers the virus definitions from 4-5 months ago. Guess how much that helps your computer? None. They are worthless. How can you expect them not to be? Paid Antivirus companies pay employees to sit there all day finding the latest virus definitions and blocking them. Free antivirus doesn't (and obviously) can't do this.
So here are steps that can help you save your computer and make it last years.
-Use a major brand paid antivirus program and update it regularly. You can get one for as cheap as $30 for a year. That's less than three fast food trips in cost to protect your $900+ computer for a year........Yeahhh. Get realistic.
-Don't use Apple Computer products. PC's are more powerful and now that you're going to be able to keep it clean, there's no point in using weak Apple garbage. Ugh. Disgusting Apple Computers. Blah.
-Now. Do exactly as I say. Right click on your desktop. Create New Shortcut. Create the shortcut name MSCONFIG. After creating it, find it on desktop and open it. LEAVE THIS SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP FOREVER. Go to the Startup Tab. Here is what has been raping you for a long time. It's time to kill the rapist. Disable all the 3rd party programs such as Skype, Apple, Itunes and the other 20 junk 3rd party programs that are obviously not needed on startup. This is what slows your PC down when you start it. You can still manually open these programs, they just won't autostart from now on (which is good).
-Run the Disk Defragmenter at least once every 3 weeks.
-Run File Cleanup once every 3 weeks.
-Go to the Computer on Run, click it, find it in the window and right click it and go to properties. Go to the Tools tab and find where it says Error Checking. Click check now and when the box pops up, check BOTH the boxes and run the check. DO THIS ONCE A MONTH! THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT NOBODY EVER TOLD YOU TO DO. IT IS PROBABLY THE ONE THING THAT IS THE DECIDING FACTOR BETWEEN YOUR COMPUTER SLOWLY DYING OVER A YEAR AND OR RUNNING GREAT FOR 4-5 YEARS!!! I have run this on $2000 computers that were near death and, because this check had never been run, after it ran for 3 hours fixing things, the computer literally went back to day 1 out of box system quality. This should be run once a month. It fixes and maintains the HardDrive from slow but assured errors that accumulate and destroy the computer internally. Computer companies DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS (because the Hard Drive IS your computer).
After going through those stages myself when younger, and having spent probably $5-7k before realizing buying new computers wasn't the answer. I have reached a sweet spot. Have had the same system going for the last 3 years and it's still going from day 1 quality thanks to literally less than 5 steps that you should (and NEED to do) every week at bare minimum at least once unless forking over $1000+ for a new PC every year is just not an issue to you.
Key truths to know beforehand:
-Free antivirus, free anti spyware DOES NOT WORK. Corporations don't use them and they're all about getting the most for their dollar. If Corporations don't trust their crap $500 computers with free antivirus software, why do you think that is? (Here's a hint: It isn't because you know more than the corporations, you don't know more than their IT guys rest assured. Free antivirus programs ONLY protect you from the 500 newest threats created 4-5 months ago. In other words, the 50,000+ threats created in the last month they don't protect your computer against at all. In other words, free antiviruses are 100% worthless and do not actually protect your computer. Repeat. If you have free antivirus on your computer, your computer is actively being destroyed as we speak.)
-Paid antivirus software covers the latest virus definitions. It DOES work. Free antivirus software covers the virus definitions from 4-5 months ago. Guess how much that helps your computer? None. They are worthless. How can you expect them not to be? Paid Antivirus companies pay employees to sit there all day finding the latest virus definitions and blocking them. Free antivirus doesn't (and obviously) can't do this.
So here are steps that can help you save your computer and make it last years.
-Use a major brand paid antivirus program and update it regularly. You can get one for as cheap as $30 for a year. That's less than three fast food trips in cost to protect your $900+ computer for a year........Yeahhh. Get realistic.
-Don't use Apple Computer products. PC's are more powerful and now that you're going to be able to keep it clean, there's no point in using weak Apple garbage. Ugh. Disgusting Apple Computers. Blah.
-Now. Do exactly as I say. Right click on your desktop. Create New Shortcut. Create the shortcut name MSCONFIG. After creating it, find it on desktop and open it. LEAVE THIS SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP FOREVER. Go to the Startup Tab. Here is what has been raping you for a long time. It's time to kill the rapist. Disable all the 3rd party programs such as Skype, Apple, Itunes and the other 20 junk 3rd party programs that are obviously not needed on startup. This is what slows your PC down when you start it. You can still manually open these programs, they just won't autostart from now on (which is good).
-Run the Disk Defragmenter at least once every 3 weeks.
-Run File Cleanup once every 3 weeks.
-Go to the Computer on Run, click it, find it in the window and right click it and go to properties. Go to the Tools tab and find where it says Error Checking. Click check now and when the box pops up, check BOTH the boxes and run the check. DO THIS ONCE A MONTH! THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT NOBODY EVER TOLD YOU TO DO. IT IS PROBABLY THE ONE THING THAT IS THE DECIDING FACTOR BETWEEN YOUR COMPUTER SLOWLY DYING OVER A YEAR AND OR RUNNING GREAT FOR 4-5 YEARS!!! I have run this on $2000 computers that were near death and, because this check had never been run, after it ran for 3 hours fixing things, the computer literally went back to day 1 out of box system quality. This should be run once a month. It fixes and maintains the HardDrive from slow but assured errors that accumulate and destroy the computer internally. Computer companies DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS (because the Hard Drive IS your computer).