In
Addition to the 'Normal'
Daily Tasks:
Perform Virus
Updates
Broadband
users (cable or DSL)
should have your
antivirus program set up
for automatic updates at
all times. Similarly, if
you are on dialup, you
should have your
antivirus program set up
to update automatically
when you connect to the
internet. If not,
you should make sure you
check for any new and
updated virus definitions
a minimum of once a
week.
Pop-up
Stoppers and Adblock
Besides a
search box, both Internet
Explorer 7 and Firefox
now have a built-in popup
stoppers, thus the need
for add-on search tool
bars for this function
(Google, Yahoo, etc.) has
been considerably
reduced. The Firefox
add-on, Adblock, can also
suppress advertising
within web pages which
has the beneficial side
effect of letting pages
load faster!
Organize All
Programs Menu (XP)
When you
hover the mouse over All
Programs you will see a
menu appear from which
you can access the
programs currently
installed on your PC.
After installing new
software it will
(normally) appear on the
programs menu.
You can
rename any program on the
menu by right clicking on
it and selecting rename
from the menu that
appears.
To
alphabetize the list,
right click and choose
"sort by name"
from the menu.
To open a
program simply left click
on it, Some options
have a small black arrow
to the far right side
which indicates that it
contains another sub-menu
(e.g., the accessories
folder has a sub-menu).
Check each sub-menu - if
it only has one file in
the menu, then move that
file to the main start
menu by dragging it to
the main bar - then
delete the folder it was
in originally.
We
recommend that you
uninstall any program
that you are no longer
using. To uninstall a
program, either click the
uninstall link for that
program in the start menu
(if available) or use the
add/delete programs
applet in the control
panel.
Deleting
the program entry from
the programs menu does
not uninstall the
software.
A more
thorough re-organization of
the start menu can be done
with Windows Explorer.
Simply find
the c:\documents and
settings\all users\start menu
folder and then move, rename,
delete and reorganize to your
hearts content.
