You have a new PC. It's out of the box, you've done the initial Windows dance and are sitting at the desktop, ugly background and all. Uninstall the free trial googly moogly anti-virus software. If there is no uninstall prompt under the appropriate start up program list then go to the control panel and use Add/Remove Programs. You'll most likely have to do a restart. After restarting, open your Internet Explorer browser and go to http://www.majorgeeks.com. Look at the column on the left. You are interested in 4 catergories; Anti-Virus, Browsers, Drive Cleaners and Spyware Tools. Leave the rest alone for now. Open up the Anti-Virus Category and download AVG Free Edition by clicking on it. Use the Florida server, it's fast. When the download completes install the program and be sure and check the 'download definition updates from the internet' box. Just click through and let the program install.
Next step is to go back to the column on the left at Major Geeks. Click on browsers. Download Firefox. Install it. Import your favorites from IE if you so desire. Complete the install and open the browser. Go to Tools at the top. Open it and click on Options. Now click on Downloads and change the download target to another folder (create one on C drive and title it DOWNLOADS). Don't download to the desktop, which is the default. This will create instant clutter. When the browser wants to be the default, tell it no and tell it to remember. After a few days of use, you can change this setting.
More will follow in the next post. Time to hit the dusty trail. Y'all slide through Thursday, the weekend is almost here!
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-Emerson
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