Cyberward PC's
Cyberward PC's is 1 of my home businesses - the other being Reiki. I work as a sole trader.
Just some of my old Forum (http://4pchelp.myfreeforum.org) posts - Which will help the PC beginner:
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Post subject: How to use A-Squared
During setup - Set it up to create a desktop icon. 1. Double click (left mouse button) on the icon on your desktop. 2. You should then see the main interface (Security Status), find 'Update Now'. 3. Click once (left mouse button), wait for the update to finish. It will tell you when it's finished. 4. You may be prompted to restart A-Squared for the update module, select 'Yes'. 5. A-Squared should then restart. 6. Click once (left mouse button) on 'Scan Now'. 7. Select 'Deep Scan', this may take a while but it will scan your entire PC for problems. 8. Click once (left mouse button) on 'Scan'. Then leave it to do it's thing. 9. When scan is finished it will list any found problems. Click once (left mouse button) in the check boxes, to insert tick. 10. Then select the option to delete the files. *Ideally run once a week. |
Post subject: How to use CCleaner
During setup - Set it up to create a desktop icon. 1. Double click (left mouse button) on the icon (picture) on your desktop. 2. Leave ticks as they are. 3. Under the 'Windows' tab click 'Analyse', then click on 'Run Cleaner'. 4. Click onto 'Applications' tab. 5. Leave ticks as they are. 6. Click 'Analyse', then click 'Run Cleaner'. 7. Click onto 'Registry' (left menu). 8. Click on 'Scan for issues', when finished click on 'Fix Selected Issues'. 9. Click on 'Fix Issues'. click 'Yes' to create a backup of the registry. 10. Save backup in 'My Documents', double click on previous backup to replace. *Ideally run once a week. |
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Post subject: Defrag/Disk Cleanup
1. Go to 'Start', then to 'Programs', then 'Accessories', then 'System Tools'. 2. Click on 'Disk Defragmenter', click 'Defragment', then wait. 3. Defrag may take a while. 4. Go to 'Start', then to 'Programs', then 'Accessories', then 'System Tools'. 5. Click on 'Disk Cleanup', select appropriate drive (C:/). 6. A dialogue box will soon pop up, make sure everything in the list is ticked. 7. Click 'OK'. *Ideally run once a week. |
Post subject: There is a fix to a PC freeze up
If and when your PC freezes up, there is a fix to this problem. Press and 'Hold Down' these 2 keys: Ctrl + Alt Then press (once, while keeping other 2 pressed down) Delete This should then bring up the 'Task Manager'. Here you can end 'Non Responsive' tasks or Shut down/Restart your PC. |
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Post subject: Most common shortcuts
Some shortcuts: Ctrl+a=Highlight/Select All Ctrl+x=Cut Ctrl+c=Copy Ctrl+v=Paste Ctrl+p=Print Ctrl+g=Go to page Ctrl+b=Bold Ctrl+i=Italic Ctrl+u=Underline For some shortcuts, such as cut/copy/paste you can also use the right mouse button. |
Post subject: Toolbars
If during ANY installation of software you are asked/prompted to install Toolbars, avoid these. Toolbars can really screw your PC up in a big way. A family member once wanted fancy cursors and installed toolbars during setup. Her laptop was a nightmare to try to sort out. It ran sooo slow, she was having other major problems etc. I had to uninstall the software for the cursors and remove toolbars. |
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Post subject: Print Screen
You can use Print Screen at any time, to show anything. Print Screen can prove to be very useful, just keep practising. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To do this: 1. Go into Word/Excel/Access and select SAVE / PRINT / OPEN etc. 2. When the SAVE / PRINT / OPEN etc dialogue box appears, press PRINT SCRN, just once. 3. In Word, start a new document. 4. Press CTRL+V to paste. 5. The screen shot should now appear. To alter size of image: 1. When the screen print is in a Word document, click once on image. 2. You will see the HANDLES. 3. Click and drag on these to alter size. To show portions of screen print i.e. crop: 1. When the screen print is in a Word document, click once on image. 2. You will see the HANDLES. 3. An extra ‘toolbar’ should always appear, see below 4. Use the 'Crop' tool. 5. Click and drag on the HANDLES, until the desired result is obtained. 6. Click once more on the crop tool to disable. 7. Click outside of the image and press ENTER. 8. Here you can type in extra text for more detail about what image shows. |
Post subject: Incredimail
Don't ever install this. As with Norton and Toolbars it can mess your PC up something rotten. Quite often with PC's, I have found that the good bits such as fancy cursors, smileys etc cause alot of agro and problems. They can be quite tricky to uninstall too. Stick with the boring normal cursors and type your own smileys etc. Smileys and abbreviations are mentioned below: Most used Smileys: = Happy = Sad :-/ = Confused/Weirded Out = Wink Most used Abbreviations: lol = Laugh out loud Gr8 = Great 2moro = Tomorrow C u l8r = See you later l8r = Later r = Are u = You m8 = Mate |