#10
/ June 12, 2009 / 3:12 min.
Protect and update your Windows XP install
Your computer is an investment of time and money. You've just invested a few hours to make it run better
. Now, it's time to protect that investment. You need to maintain your computer and protect it from threats it may encounter.
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- You need to install some anti-virus protection. Here are some programs you can use:
- Make sure your antivirus software automatically updates itself.
- You'll also want something to defend against spyware. Here are a few products that you can use.
- Note that some products perform both antivirus and antispyware functions.
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Spyware Doctor
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Security 2007
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Anti-Spyware
- You'll also want to make sure you defragment your hard drives. For
that here are a couple programs:
- Diskeeper Home
Edition
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Here are a couple of good, all around products for maintaining your PC:
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SpeedUpMyPC 2009
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TuneUp Utilities 2009
And for keeping all your Windows drivers up-to-date try:
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DriverScanner - Now, your PC is running a freshly installed copy of Windows XP with all security updates and you've protected your investment. Congratulations!
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#1
/ June 1, 2009 / 2:28 min.
Over time your computer, like your car, doesn't run as well as it once
did. You may do all the things you're supposed to like
defragment the
hard drive,
clean the registry,
remove junk files and so on. Often,
after a period of time, it's not your maintenance that's the problem.
More likely your copy of
Windows has become corrupted. Through power
outages, power surges, turning the computer off improperly, and many
other factors. You don't need to clean your PC and you don't need to
repair
Windows. What's needed is a "
clean install" of
Windows XP. Here's how!
#2
/ June 2, 2009 / 3:28 min.
You're going to be very happy with your nice, fresh, "
clean install" of
Windows XP. I'm pretty sure about that. I'm also very sure that you won't be happy if you forget to
backup your photos, or music, or documents, or program data. This segment helps you get a handle on things to
backup and things you don't want to forget. Trust me on this.
#3
/ June 3, 2009 / 4:11 min.
With a
thorough backup in place, we undertake the first step in
reinstalling Windows XP: booting from the Windows XP CD, selecting to do a
clean install of Windows and selecting a
filesystem to use when
formatting the hard drive.
#4
/ June 4, 2009 / 2:40 min.
In
part 3 of our
video guide to reinstalling Windows XP we got as far as
selecting a partition to install to. Now it's time to
pick a formatting option. Your options are to do nothing, to do
"quick" formats, or to do full formats, but using
FAT32 or
NTFS? Here's where I'll give you some tips.
#5
/ June 5, 2009 / 3:26 min.
Sometimes when you put your CD in the drive and restart Windows it just reboots and goes straight back to Windows. Misses your CD all together. The reason? Your computers "
boot order" probably isn't set to
see your disc drive before your hard drive. No problem because we can go in and fix that.
#6
/ June 8, 2009 / 3:41 min.
As we progress with our
reinstall Windows
needs some input from us.
There are
regional settings,
network settings, and other options and preferences that we'll need to set. We're on the downhill side of doing a fresh,
clean install of Windows XP
.
#7
/ June 9, 2009 / 2:43 min.
Just a few things to
finalize and our reinstall
will be done. There are just a few more steps until we have a fresh,
clean copy of Windows XP
up and running. First, we set the date, time and regional options, get a quick tour of
Windows XP
, set up our network information, computer name, user account and other pertinent details.
#8
/ June 10, 2009 / 1:44 min.
We've finished our
clean install of Windows XP
, but we're not quite done. Remember, this copy of XP is
freshly installed so it doesn't have any updates installed. You need to visit the
Windows Update center
to get all the updates your newly installed copy of Windows needs.
#9
/ June 11, 2009 / 2:27 min.
You've visited
Windows Update and gotten everything you needed from
there. Now it's time to
restore all the items you backed up
before this adventure started. Your documents, photos, music, bookmarks, desktop items, and more. If you backed up programs and data you can use your backup program to restore everything as it was. If you only backed up data then it's time to
reinstall your programs
and put the data back in its place.
#10
/ June 12, 2009 / 3:12 min.
Your computer is an investment of time and money. You've just invested a few hours to
make it run better
. Now, it's time to protect that investment. You need to maintain your computer and protect it from threats it may encounter.
about Reinstalling Windows XP
Michael "Doc" Callahan leads us through the process for
reinstalling Windows on your computer. Over time,
Windows XP gets corrupted and your system slows to a crawl. Doc explains why you may want to
reinstall Windows XP and goes through the process in detail in this
step-by-step guide to installing Windows XP video series.
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