When I use other peoples computers what I usually see is how much crap is running in them. Programs that are not ever used or even known about are running and using up resources for nothing.<\/p>\n
I use Windows and here are some of the things that I do. Have anti virus, a firewall and spyware removal. There are good free ones like avast<\/a>, Spybot-S&D<\/a> and zone alarm<\/a><\/p>\n I occasionally check the start\/all programs\/startup folder. These are the programs that start everytime Windows starts. I have nothing in there. Probably the only things that I would consider allowing there would be a firewall or anti-virus program, but mine don’t need to be there. I don’t believe that anything else actually needs to start until YOU start it.<\/p>\n This folder just has shortcuts, if you delete what’s in there it doesn’t affect the program except to not start it up automatically. When I use other peoples computers what I usually see is how much crap is running in them. Programs that are not ever used or even known about are running and using up resources for nothing. I use Windows and here are some of the things that I do. They work for me, but that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey work for me, but that’s no guarantee they will work for you.
\nI like Firefox<\/a> for web browsing and Thunderbird<\/a> for e-mail. I recommend them both.<\/p>\n
\nOpen the control panel and look at add\/remove programs and see just what is installed. If I know a program that is installed that I don’t use anymore I will uninstall it. This is especially true if I still have the program and could install it again if necessary. If I didn’t know what it was or what it was doing I would find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"