4-4-07 Keep your PC Regular

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Keep it Regular

One of the more obvious practices is that you should run an antivirus scan at least biweekly, if not every week another smart thing to have on your computer is an ad ware/spyware program

also consider getting some sort of a firewall program like Zone Alarm.

There are several things you can do to your computer to clean up space. For one, you should run a disk cleanup pretty regularly to make sure nothing is eating away at your space. To do this, click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and look for the C: drive. Right-click on that and choose Properties. This will bring up a pie chart of how much space is being used and how much you have left. It has all kinds of information there for you regarding your disk space, so you can check and make sure you have the appropriate amount of disk space left. Just click on the Disk Cleanup button and let it run.

Another thing you can do to clean up some space is go through your Add/Remove programs (Start, Control Panel) and clean up some of the unwanted items in there. There always seems to be some sort of program or attachment that you don't need, so you might as well get rid of it and use the space for something else, right? The Add/Remove list also tells you when you last used a program, so it's easy to tell if you should get rid of it or not of program or attachment that you don't need, so you might as well get rid of it and use the space for something else, right? The Add/Remove list also tells you when you last used a program, so it's easy to tell if you should get rid of it or not.

Go through all your files (I know, that may take awhile) and clean some stuff out of those too. I know there's several things on my computer that I don't need anymore, like school papers I had written, some pictures and even some music files. That sort of stuff is safe to delete off your computer, if you're sure you're never going to need it again. It will just free up some space for you and help your computer run more smoothly. You don't have to do this weekly or anything, but every two or three months may not be a bad idea.

You can also help your PC by deleting old e-mails completely off your system. If you're never going to read them again, why waste the space? Getting rid of all those forwards you get. There are just a couple more things you can do to keep your computer safe, secure and running smooth! If you surf the Internet a lot, clean out your Web browser history often and delete your cookies and files. This task is simple. Just go to your Web browser, click on Tools, Internet Options and under Temporary

Internet Files, click Delete Cookies and Delete Files. Then under History, click on Clear History. This gets rid of the history of all the Web pages you've visited and all that comes with those. It's a good idea to do this every so often.

Clear up unused icons on your desktop. I know I used to have tons of icons sitting on my desktop that I never used. I never knew how annoying it was until I cleaned mine up and now I just have one row of icons and that's it. I can see that picture of my dogs that I have as my wallpaper much better now! You can put all of these unused icons into their own folder or you can just delete them for good. That's up to you! Either way, it's a good thing to do.

One last thing! It's also a good idea to empty out your Recycle Bin when you get a chance. After you've deleted all this stuff from your PC, you'll want to make sure it's gone permanently by deleting it out of your Recycle Bin. Just find the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop, right click on it and choose Empty Recycle Bin. It will throw away all that junk for you!

Well, there ya go. These are just a few practices you can do to keep your PC up and running as well as possible. You don't want it bogged down with all that junk, so help it out and clean it up. It will serve you better too!

When working in MS Word, we all know about the usual toolbar buttons and lists that allow us quick access to things like font type, size, bold, italics, underline, color, etc.

But, did you know that there are even more aspects of your fonts that can be manipulated?

There are things like character spacing and text effects to be explored, along with options like strikethrough text, superscripts, shadow, embossed text, engraved text and so on.

So, the question becomes: "Where are all these things? After all, I certainly don't see them on the Formatting toolbar."

You're right. You don't see all the options on that toolbar, you just see the most frequently used items.

So, for more options, you've got to go to the Font window.

One way to access the "extras" is to use the Format menu, Font choice.

A faster way would be to do a quick Ctrl + D.

(If you want to change text that's already in the document, highlight the text to be changed before doing the Ctrl + D).