Page Authors Advise To Those Who Are New To The Web...It's In your interest to take the time to read Be Carefull About The "Freebies" That You Download Particularly " Games " like Poker, Blackjack etc. Before you download be sure to take the time to read the policy and other that provider of the " Freebie " usually includes.
Be Carefull About The "Freebies" That You Download Particularly " Games " like Poker, Blackjack etc. Before you download be sure to take the time to read the policy and other that provider of the " Freebie " usually includes.
Why? the freebie may contain Spyware included in the download or the provider may...as is the case in one " Blackjack free"offering. Supplier...of this software " Specifically states that "As an inducement for supplying the Free Blackjack game,"you must also accept their other software...which may or may not be Spyware.
If you don't know it yet, the Web ( Internet ) is a dangerous place. There is no privacy and many of the laws pertaining to confidential information do not apply when you log onto the web.
What ever you do while on line is recorded somewhere. E-Mails that you send, NEVER, NEVER !! disappear, Where you visited, who you are, How many times you visited...the list on what "Personal Information" is gathered is extensive. Spyware is reputed to acquire this information. See "Other Links To Visit" for " Free " Spyware Checker software
Another word of caution. If you use the computer to maintain " confidential Information "Don't Leave The Data In The Computer Download the infomation to a floppy or CD and delete the folder or file from the computer.
Why?, because you will find that your computer is constantly under attack from hackers who , unless you have software that prevents access, make efforts to access your computer through the ports.
Once they gain access they can do anything they want...even use your computer as a bridge to elsewhere, thereby hiding their identity...Be sure to visit the " Spyware " site listed below. What you should know about deleting
When You delete a file you assume (think ) the data is gone...removed from the Hard Drive... but in reality it is not gone.When you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface. Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility. Defraging weekly..which Windows can Schedule... helps in re-arranging the magnetic field and allows for "overwrite" of the space. I schedule Defrag and Scandisk for once a week, during the twelve (12) to six (6) A/M hours.
"Question" in the Chicago Tribune's "Ask Jim" section, provides more details that "Deleting does not mean it's gone forever"
Q. When you delete something, is it gone forever or can it be retrieved? Do things remain somewhere on your hard drive even though you've deleted them, so someone could access delicate information by getting your hard drive? A. And how,( initial of person asking question, deleted ), Data gets written to hard drives in the form of 0s and 1s, arranged as codes for numbers and letters. The computer makes sense of them by keeping a table of so called pointers that record where the words and numbers start and stop. When you delete something, all that happens is the table with those pointers is erased so that other data can be written where the earlier stuff had been located. Until the data is actually overwritten with new patterns of 0s and 1s, the old stuff still can be read by experts, a fact dramatized recently when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described acquiring 158 junked hard drives and finding data on 128 of them. That information included 5,000 credit card numbers, bank accounts, medical records and pornography. Only twelve (12) had been cleaned as they should be. There are two ways to do this cleaning,either buy software that erases all of the pointers and then writes meaningless data onto the drive filling every nook and cranny, or else remove the physical drive and hit it with a hammer ... several times. The latter choice costs less and should be fool proof. Just follow the fat ribbon cable with the red stripe on one edge from the main circuit board to the squat little rectangular box bolted into the case, probably near the top. For those with less destructive tastes, both the super popular McAfee and Norton computer utilities products include shredder modules designed to handle this chore and others. Sources are DataGone (www.powerquest.com) and UniShred Pro (www.lat.com).
A. And how,( initial of person asking question, deleted ), Data gets written to hard drives in the form of 0s and 1s, arranged as codes for numbers and letters. The computer makes sense of them by keeping a table of so called pointers that record where the words and numbers start and stop. When you delete something, all that happens is the table with those pointers is erased so that other data can be written where the earlier stuff had been located.
Until the data is actually overwritten with new patterns of 0s and 1s, the old stuff still can be read by experts, a fact dramatized recently when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described acquiring 158 junked hard drives and finding data on 128 of them. That information included 5,000 credit card numbers, bank accounts, medical records and pornography. Only twelve (12) had been cleaned as they should be.
There are two ways to do this cleaning,either buy software that erases all of the pointers and then writes meaningless data onto the drive filling every nook and cranny, or else remove the physical drive and hit it with a hammer ... several times.
The latter choice costs less and should be fool proof. Just follow the fat ribbon cable with the red stripe on one edge from the main circuit board to the squat little rectangular box bolted into the case, probably near the top.
For those with less destructive tastes, both the super popular McAfee and Norton computer utilities products include shredder modules designed to handle this chore and others. Sources are DataGone (www.powerquest.com) and UniShred Pro (www.lat.com).
Place the Mouse pointer on the “Start” icon ..located in the far left corner of the “Status bar” and click. A dialog box will open:...click Programs or All Programs Another dialog box will open: Click “Accessories” Another dialog box will open:Move the mouse down to Systems Tools and click Another dialog box will open: Move mouse to Disk Defragmenter With your Mouse still on the Disk Defragmenter press down the "Right" mouse button A dialog box will open: Now scroll the mouse down this dialog box until the mouse rests on "Create Shortcut" and click. When you do this the dialog box may close, if this happens you have to go back and click Start/Accessories/Systems Tools which will cause the dialog box to reopen, but now the box contains two (2) Defrag buttons. The one on the bottom of the dialog box, Defrag(2) is the one we want to move to the desktop. Put the mouse on the Defrag(2) description...BE SURE TO KEEP HOLDING THE "RIGHT MOUSE" BUTTON DOWN. Now drag the small square icon onto the blue area of the Desk Top. Let the right mouse button go and a small dialog box will open. When this happens click "Move here" and the Defrag(2) Icon will be placed exactly where you placed it. Now whenever you want to defrag the hard drive, you just have to click the Defrag Icon that's on your desktop.
It is axiomatic that care and diligence be exercised before downloading any " On Line " software. Be sure to read all instructions, check the Operating Systems (OS ) Noted as being required...The date updated...any support.
Page Author suggests that Before Downloading you " Post " to Forum(s) Chat Rooms, ICQ's to determine if anyone has had experience with the " Considered " Software. It is also suggested that you set-up a "Software Dnloaded Folder " on the Desktop and that Software Downloaded be stored in this folder prior to installation.
Doing this will afford you the opportunity to install at your leasure And also allow you to copy the "Mydownloads" folder to a floppy or CD as protection when the computer crashes.
When you reboot the computer, it displays one of the following (or similar) error messages:
"Windows XMS driver Unable to control A20 line; XMS driver not installed."..."HIMEM.SYS is missing."
This error message does not appear when first applying power to the computer, only when re-booting it once the computer is already powered on. It is more likely to affect laptop computers than desktop computers. This error message will frequently appear for the first time after installing one of several versions of Norton Anti-Virus.
Solution:
Turn the computer off completely, then follow these steps to make changes to the computer's DOS startup files, autoexec.bat and config.sys:
Turn on the computer.
For Windows 95 When the screen says "Starting Windows 95", immediately press the F8 key. This displays the Windows 95 Startup Menu.
For Windows 98: As soon as you turn on the computer, press and hold the CTRL key until the Windows 98 Startup Menu is displayed.
Select Safe Mode Command Prompt Only either by highlighting that option with your down arrows or by typing in the number of that menu option, and then press the Enter key on your keyboard.At the C:\>prompt, type EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT [Enter]
You should now have a blue screen which you can edit text in. At the very top of the window, add the following line SET DOS16M=2 ...Press Alt+F to open the File menu. Choose Exit and press the Enter key. When prompted to save changes, use your arrow keys to highlight "Yes" and press Enter. You will now be back at the C:\> prompt. Type EDIT CONFIG.SYS [Enter] In the text editor, find a line which refers to a file called HIMEM.SYS and add /M:1 to the very end of that line. Be sure there is a space following the end of the existing line and the /M:1 If you do not have a HIMEM.SYS line, add the following line: DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS /M:1 ...Press Alt+F to open the File menu. Choose Exit and press Enter. When prompted to save changes, answer Yes and press Enter. Re-boot the computer. It should now boot normally. Note 1... You may need to alter the path if your version of Windows 95 or Windows 98 is not located in the Windows directory. Note 2... The /M:1 line depends upon the hardware version of the A20 handler. You may need to try the numbers 1-17 (for instance, /M:12) to find the correct version for the computer. PS/2 computers and Prolinea computers, for example, tend to require /M:2 instead of /M:1.
When prompted to save changes, use your arrow keys to highlight "Yes" and press Enter. You will now be back at the C:\> prompt. Type EDIT CONFIG.SYS [Enter]
In the text editor, find a line which refers to a file called HIMEM.SYS and add /M:1 to the very end of that line. Be sure there is a space following the end of the existing line and the /M:1
If you do not have a HIMEM.SYS line, add the following line: DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS /M:1 ...Press Alt+F to open the File menu. Choose Exit and press Enter. When prompted to save changes, answer Yes and press Enter.
Re-boot the computer. It should now boot normally.
Note 1... You may need to alter the path if your version of Windows 95 or Windows 98 is not located in the Windows directory.
Note 2... The /M:1 line depends upon the hardware version of the A20 handler. You may need to try the numbers 1-17 (for instance, /M:12) to find the correct version for the computer. PS/2 computers and Prolinea computers, for example, tend to require /M:2 instead of /M:1.
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Clicking the “Start” Button located in the lower “Left” corner of the Desktop...when desktop is open...then clicking “Shut Down” and when a dialog box opens, clicking Re-Start. By re-starting, causes the computer to re-organize the applications.This action usually results in solving many problems.
Zipping a file puts the file or files in a compressed format. The advantages are that the file(s), Folder(s) are smaller...and have less bytes than before being zipped. Zipping a large file/folder before saving...attaching to an e-mail will use less space when storing or backing up. A file/folder that has been zipped can be downloaded faster. You will need " Unzipping " software to extract what was zipped to it's original state. Certain extracting ( unzipping ) software can be downloaded free of charge.
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