PC repair online – How to avoid it next time!

March 18th, 2009 Posted in Registry Cleaner Articles

In today’s information society living without your computer when it do fail is almost impossible. There are bills to pay, schedules keep, mails to answer and friends to keep up with. The sad truth is that any computer will fail at some point. Professionals know this and that is why the don’t focus on PC repair online, they focus on securing it from the most common threats, as such extending its lifetime way beyond normal.

The trick to be able to skip shell out large amounts of money on PC repair online or any other repair service for that matter is installing the right tools. Meaning a registry utility that will keep your system up to date, a anti virus solution, a firewall and backup tool to take continuous backups of your system if and when it do fail. The following list will contain the tools that I personally always install whenever my computer or Windows fail and I have to perform a complete sweep and reinstall everything.

Anti Virus

Researchers believe that there are millions of different malware as they are called out there that can potentially harm your computer. Every malware, whether it be a trojan, virus or worm has it own characteristic meaning that can wreck any kind of havoc upon your computer. Horror examples are identity theft, theft of personal information or just corrupted and non-functional systems.

F-Secure Anti VirusMy favorite tool to protect me against any threat out there are F-Secure Anti Virus package that will give me full real time protection against all above mentioned threats including spĂ˝ware. Updates are almost daily meaning that the database containing the list of threats are always up to date with the latest threats. Add the face that its easy to install use it’s the ultimate package. Download F-Secure Anti Virus!

Firewall

While there are threats that you can protect yourself from with a anti virus solution there are still a barrage of attacks that occurs daily without you being infected. These attacks will exploit weaknesses in your system, either Windows or any third party software and in such a way gain access to your system. To thwart these threats you need a firewall that only allow any communication to your computer that you have granted.

Zone AlarmFor this i use a application from Check Point called Zone Alarm Pro. Zone Alarm Pro block and unwanted communication to and if so may happen from you computer. This tool is invisible to the hackers to they will never be able to identify it to circumvent it, leaving you protected. Alsome comes with a tool to protect your wireless if you happen use such solution. Download Zone Alarm Pro!

Backup Solution

No matter what you should have some kind of backup solution so that you can save your most valuable information and files on a secure location other than your main computer. But, burning CD’, DVD’s or dragging all your files to a external solution just added hassle.

KeepItInstead I use is the KeepIt online based solution. This solution is so awesome. You just download a little application, specify what folders you want to back up on a regular basis and that’s it. All new, old or changed files in those locations will automatically be encrypted and uploaded to a secure remote server from where you can, if anything happens and they disappear from your main computer, download them again. Secure and best of all, fully automated. Just install and forget! Download here!

Registry utility

A registry utility will maintain critical parts of your system such as temporary files, browser files and most of all, your registry which contain your run time information on how certain parts of your system and installed software behave.

Registry Fix Box Registry Fix is the number one tool I use too keep my PC blazing fast. Registry Fix is a registry cleaner/utitlity that will correct any error in your system and keep a host of other issues in check. Amongst other it will maintain missing file associations, missing dll files and of course keep your registry free from broken, faulty and obsolete entries. Try a free scan with Registry Fix here!

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