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Tips, Tricks & Pointers to Make Your Software Sing

November-2002

Your computer is part machine and part human. Understand and accept this and your computing experience will be greatly expanded.

We have all seen the machine work flawlessly:

It is a machine designed to carry out routine tasks repetitively and quickly.
It can manage large amounts of information and analyze it in many ways.
Through the Internet it can connect you to world of knowledge never imagined when the first computer was designed.

The human traits of the computer should be self-evident.

It will throw a tantrum and refuse to cooperate at moment’s notice.
It will act up, and tell you why it’s acting up. But the cryptic error messages and warnings are less useful than understanding why a baby is crying.
Its parts can wear out and need repair or replacement.
It can acquire a virus and become sick, possibly even terminal.

Computer Tune-ups can help your system avoid a “computer coronary”

Like regular exercise, regular computer tune-ups will keep your computer running efficiently.
You change your oil every 3000 miles.
You may visit your dentist every 6 months.

You may not be aware that a computer tune-up is just as important as a dental cleaning or an oil change.
Computers will acquire clutter over time and this clutter will cause poor performance. Ignore the clutter for too long and system lock-ups can result.

With regular computer tune-ups you can change from

Contact Maestro Computing to schedule your computer tune-up today
Email: support@pcmaestro.com or 310-879-9891

Check out our tune-up calendar

Want to get better performance from your computer system?

Give your computer a coffee break.

That’s right, when you take a break, go to lunch or go to a meeting, take a few moments to coffee break your computer. There is no need to fully shutdown or power off, but a few simple clicks will recover memory that is lost over the course of the day.

Save all your work
Click
Start
Shutdown
Restart

DON’T DEPRIVE YOUR COMPUTER OF A MUCH NEEDED COFFEE BREAK.

Restart your computer regularly.

For additional information on restarting your computer and memory leakage click on:

Windows Cranky Performance and the Memory Leak effect

VIRUS PROTECTION

Flu season is here and you may have already received your annual flu shot.

Did you know that computers also need flu shots… and regular booster shots.

That’s right, your antivirus software acts as a flu shot. Computer viruses spread quickly and there are thousands of strains of viruses. Antivirus software vendors provide regular updates

If you have never updated your virus software..your computer is at risk.

Antivirus updates take only a few moments and can mean the difference a virus free computer and a virus that could wipe out all of your information.

Additional information on virus protection is at:
http://www.pcmaestro.com/avprotect.htm and
http://www.pcmaestro.com/virus.htm

Major Antivirus Software updates and information can be found at:

Symantec Antivirus Research Center (Norton Antivirus) or

Norton Antivirus Downloads

McAfee VirusScan

Network Associates AVERT (AntiVirus Emergency Response Team)

Trend Micro PC-cillin

Trend Micro Virus Primer

More helpful tips can be found in: