RED onto the motherboard...no upgrades here

...I'm Kat.

Whilst I may be a 'newbie' to this forum, I'm certainly not a novice when it comes to
computing. I started in 1984 with a Casio PB100, with a massive 512 bytes of RAM
(yes, you DID read that correctly), then progressed through a 48K Speccy, a C64 (which
I still own) and an Amiga A500+ (which I also still own).

My first PC was an Osborne 386SX20, with 4 MB of RAM (SOLDERED onto the m/board,
no upgrade path here), a 256 KILOBYTE graphics card, and an 80 MB HDD that was the
size of a shoe-box.

I'm a member of both the 7 and 8 forums, but recently kicked my old Pentium 4 2.8/Vista
Ultimate setup into life after a long-ish break.

So, here I am.

I've basically dropped in to pick up any new tips since I last used Vista, and to
help in any way I can. I was a Vista beta-tester back in the day, so if I can help,
rest assured that I will.

Thanks, and nice to be here....:-)

Welcome to the Forum, Kat

It is our hope that you learn and have fun while you are at the Forum. Here are some tips that may be helpful.

To maintain your computer

10 Tips on How to Properly Maintain Your Computer
ignore, reg cleaners.

Steps that I did not notice on the guide include:

Running a scan disc before doing a defrag

Using Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.

Making System Restore points, at least once a week

Makaing a system Image once a month (varies by user)

Not relying on your A/V common sense, should prevail. You know of many sites can cause a problem.

Do not use any reg cleaning or optimizing software.

Download and use Ccleaner about once every two months. Untick any registry entries.
http://www.piriform.com/

Download and use PSI, to to be sure that all of your software is up to date
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

If you follow these instructions, you will be trouble free for a long time to come.

Be sure to back up your hard drive about once a month (varies by user) and to keeep system restore points up to date.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...er-performance

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

Re: Um...hello....

Thanks, Richard, and yes, that's all good advice.

If a few more people heeded advice like that, we'd all sleep easier....:-)


I really don't know what happened to the thread heading, it was supposed to
be me introducing myself, don't know how motherboards got into the equation.

Sorry!