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To get the 411 on Sandboxie, see Tech Paul’s Friend of the Internet Surfer Award – 2010. Sandboxie was my only FOTIS Award winner in 2010. I found myself repeating – many times – this: if purchasing a new, 64-bit computer is not an option for you, the least you can do is install Sandboxie and use it when surfing the Internet.

It seems people want to know more/debate/question my recent It is time to face facts and finally dump Windows XP. I have had more than the average amount of reader mail. Happy Birthday you! (You know who you are.)Īlso.

Including a particularly difficult “rogue antivirus” (see, Your Computer Is Lying To You… The Epidemic Of Rogues).Īnd my niece became a teenager. In my RL job I have installed a surround sound “home theater” (see, What Do The Dolby Numbers Mean?), upgraded a home network to Gigabit (see, Gigabit Ethernet Didn’t Make Internet Faster), installed printers and monitors, and brought a computer back from the dead as well as my usual load of what has sort of become my specialty – removing “virus” infections. If you have a photo or some such as a background desktop image, get rid of it and replace it with one of the default windows background images that are not a photo of a scene, this will reduce memory usage.Īt least 4 gigs of ram is great, and having at least 20 gigs of hard drive space free on the drive DDO is on is good too.Ĭheck for and install all possible Windows Updates, update your video card drivers, adjust the graphical settings within DDO, check your internet connection.Friday is here – yay! This week has been a particularly busy one for me (with no end in sight). Some of these come bundled with extra software that can do things to your system. Remove software from your system that is redundant or useless, eg Toolbars within Internet Explorer (or your chosen Web Browser). If you have more than one hard drive in your computer then install DDO (and other games you play) onto a second drive, this does help. Some free trial tools that you can use initially: Here is a list of some free excellent tools to maintain and clean your system: You shouldn't need to reinstall windows, most people go for this option but I have found over the years that 99% of time it is totally unnecessary.

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