10 Items or things that can Mess up your computer
By mirage108
@mirage108 (3402)
United States
September 22, 2008 4:03pm CST
did you know that these 10 items can mess up your computer
1 - Plug into the wall without surge protection
2 - Surf the Internet without a firewall
3 - Neglect to run or update antivirus and anti-spyware programs
4 - Install and uninstall lots of programs, especially betas
5 - Keep disks full and fragmented
6 - Open all attachments
7 - Click on everything
8 - Share and share alike
9 - Pick the wrong passwords
10 - Ignore the need for a backup and recovery plan
Which one is you or how many do you do
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7 responses
@wyte059tyger (141)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I'm guilty of #4, but not as much as I used to be. I don't use betas anymore. lol
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@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Thank you for Responding. Just remember we all need Beta Testers! This is so that when a company puts out new software it can be as bug free as possible. unfortunately bug free is not always possible with all the different configurations out there.
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@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
10 Oct 08
Most of the Beta Testers have a seperate computer just for testing purposes they wont use their personal computer.
Microsoft even uses Beta Testers when they come out with a New OS
@wyte059tyger (141)
• United States
2 Oct 08
Yeah, I know we need them. If a company I really trusted came out with one, I would try it I guess. Just, the few I did try seemed to really mess up my computer.
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
23 Sep 08
I do the last one.the backup and recovery plan.I do not do a backup because i have no space on my hard disk to keep backups.but i do defragmentation and virus and sypware removal every month.
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
23 Sep 08
ok do you have a cd, or a DVD burner on your computer if so then store your back up's on them. If you keep the backup on the computer hard disk and the disk does crash and you do have to do a reformat your backup is gone
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
•
22 Sep 08
all of the above when I first got on line 
I'm now older and wiser.
I'm now older and wiser.1 person likes this
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Thank you for Responding, I think we all were like that when we first got online
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
22 Sep 08
An excellent list there Mirage. Maybe we could also add there safe web/computing practices. A lot of users having state of the art and expensive anti-malware tools are still affected by malwares that would screw up the computer. Thanks for sharing these.
. Maybe we could also add there safe web/computing practices. A lot of users having state of the art and expensive anti-malware tools are still affected by malwares that would screw up the computer. Thanks for sharing these.1 person likes this
.@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Thank you for the comment. if you look at the option with having the software to keep Anti-virus, spy-ware, and mal-ware it needs to stay updated and frequently
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@pimagro24 (1046)
• Thailand
22 Sep 08
I do it 6 items oh my notebook thank that you can stay with me
and thank you for your sharing
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Thank you for Responding and your welcome.
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@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
26 Sep 08
Thank you for commenting hope you have a great day
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
1 Apr 10
Actually the only one I'm bad about is not defragging my pc often enough. I never open attachments unless I know the person, I never randomly install/uninstall programs or any of the other things you listed. I do know a lot of ppl that do most of these things and then they wonder why their pc's crash.
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