Friday, March 4, 2011

Secure Browsing

With a lot of these issues some stuff we could do to safe gaurd it
  • Test how secure is your network. Like Audit My PC
  • Use Secretive browsing see this article 
    • Stop Cookies especially from emails - Avoid downloading images till they are required
  • Use Personal Proxies - reasons IP address can tell everyone of a person's address. Including other details it makes easier for ID Theft. How easy it is Find your IP address from email sent. And back track the IP address using WhatIsMyIPAddress.com.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Ways to Improve PC Performance

As I have done it so many times though of writing ways to do it

I suppose there are Few ways of taking care of it

  • Registry Cleaning: CCleaner does it
  • Disk Cleaning: Cleaning and removes files that eats up space like Temporay Files. CCleaner does it
  • PC Optimizer: Some of the stuff which are on by defaults that are not needed usually
    • Disable Indexing Services: See this Microsoft Site for it. See here
    • Disable Search for Network Files/Printers
    • Reduce Menu Delays
    • Don't clear paging file on Shutdown
  • Do a Defragment: If there is not enough space one can use 
  • StartUp Menu: Use CCleaner
  • Browser Add-ons: See you can remove some unwanted Program
  • Remove Spyware and Adware: SpyBot and others like removes it
  • Remove unwated programs
  • Other Advanced stuffs: Access advanced system tools, such as Event Viewer, Disk Defragmenter, and System Information, that system administrators and IT professionals often use to solve problems. You can also view notifications about performance-related issues and what to do about them. For example, ifWindows detects that a driver is reducing performance, click the notification to learn which driver is causing the problem and view help on how to update the driver. Issues listed at the beginning of the list are impacting the system more than issues listed later in the list.