• Install only those software on your computer, which you need always. Do not create rubbish by installing a large number of software in your computer. This slows down your computer and increases its electrical power consumption also.
   
• Use legal software only.
   
• Defragment you computer regularly. At least once in a week. For this follow the path to find the defragmenter tool on your computer -
  • Start All programs Accessories System tools Disk defragmenter (For WinXP)
     
• Run disk cleanup regularly, at least once in a week on your computer.
  • Start All programs Accessories System tools Disk cleanup
    (For WinXP)
     
• Always use virus guard. A good virus guard, which is freely available on the net is AVG. I have tested it and got very successful results.
  • It is free and can be downloaded, installed very easily. The only problem with any anti virus guard is that it requires regular updating from the net.
    Click here to download the AVG.
  • If you want more protection from spyware also, then click here.
     
• Always create backup of your important data either on CD/DVD or on the net. For storing your data on the net you can obtain more space for free in the email accounts like www.gmail.com, http://www.diino.com/offer01.html, www.hotmail.com, www.tripod.com etc.
   
• If you connect to the internet regularly and continue chatting with your friends, then install a proxy server utility on your computer. This will always hide your IP address with good security. I have tested different types of proxy server utilities and found some of them to be very good...
  • Wingate proxy server utility
  • Proxy for free
     
• While choosing password for any application, either online or offline, like for your email accounts, websites, data folder on the net, etc. you must keep following points in mind -
  • Never keep your password same as the username.
  • Never choose your own name, surname, date of birth, spouse's name, pet's name, child's name, etc. as your password. Those can be easily cracked by the crackers.
  • Always try to choose a word which is not within the dictionary, e.g.
    %KMoT#03kDjL$ etc.
  • Some of the wild card characters like %, #, $, *, &, ^ are allowed for any type of password field.
     
• While going through these tips and tricks, the students are requested to give me feedback or contact me directly on my email address dsvakola@hotmail.com about their queries and suggestion so that this section can be made more helpful for my students...

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