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Firewall Protection Symantec’s Norton Personal Firewall keeps personal data in and hackers out. Right out of the box, it makes your PC invisible on the Internet so that hackers can’t find it. The program’s intelligent intrusion prevention technology blocks suspicious Internet traffic. And easy-to-use privacy controls prevent personal information from being sent out without your [...]

Are you being watched? If your computer starts to behave strangely or displays any of the symptoms listed below, you may have spyware or other unwanted software installed on your computer. I see pop-up advertisements all the time Some unwanted software will bombard you with pop-up ads that aren’t related to a particular website you’re [...]

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Maintenance tasks that improve performance If your computer seems slower than it used to be, it probably is. Over time, computers get slower because files become disorganized and resources are consumed by unnecessary software. Fortunately, Microsoft Windows XP includes tools to clean up your computer and restore its performance. The five steps in this article [...]

There are more technical factors that influence the bandwith. First of all, the cable between you and the street cabinet can only handle a certain amount of bandwith, the longer the cable, the less the bandwith it can handle (mostly due to attenuation and noise comming from other lines nearby) … there is no way [...]

The aging computer faces a variety of performance threatening factors especially home based PCs, which comprise a large sector of the computer market but don’t usually receive the attention of commercial units. The pros can make your computer faster with actual programming methods and microprocessor reconfiguration, while the layman usually relies on a host of [...]

This section describes a firewall, its importance to your home computer strategy, and a way to think about the job you need to do. We’re going to depart from our “computer-is-like-a-house-and-the-things-in-it” analogy to use another that you are probably also familiar with: an office building. Have you ever visited a business where you first stopped [...]

There’s a confusing amount of accurate and inaccurate detail in this thread so I’m relating critical steps I took this morning helping a neighbour implement printer sharing in his home network where a Canon MP160 printer is connected to a Compaq Presario desktop PC running Windows VISTA Home Premium with SP1. He wanted to be [...]

Home Network Setup – Setting up a Local Area Network – Setup Your Home Network – View this article in printer-friendly plain-text format E-mail this article to a friend With computers getting cheaper and cheaper these days, it is not uncommon for a household to have more than one PC. If that describes you, then [...]

How are broadband services different from traditional dial-up services? Traditional dial-up Internet services are sometimes referred to as “dial-on-demand” services. That is, your computer only connects to the Internet when it has something to send, such as email or a request to load a web page. Once there is no more data to be sent, [...]