Archive for January, 2010

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Is your Microsoft Windows computer not acting the way it should?  Do you think you might have a Virus or something related?  You are probably in need of Windows Vista virus removal instructions.  Microsoft Windows Vista has not been out that long, maybe 2 years max, but enough people have it where we think its vital to know how to deal with problems when you get them on your home computer.

Here are dirctions for removing viruses and spyware alike from your home computer, whether you might have a laptop or desktop pc.  Remember these directions assume you have a basic understanding of your computer system and how to navigate around to its general components.

1 – Disable System Restore In Control Panel

Find the start menu icon and then navigate to the control panel.  From there go to backup and restore center which is easy to find because the control pane is in alphabetical order.  Now click on create a restore point or change settings.  You should see a system properties window come up.  Take away the check boxes next to the hard drive your Windows Vista operating system is on, it’s usually C:.  The last protection window will open, and click turn off system restore here.

2- Install AVG Antivirus Software

Before installing anything you want to remove any other installations of antivirus software.  So go into the control panel and then programs and remove any that you might have.  From here you need to either download AVG Antivirus, the award winning antivirus program, or download it from another computer (with the updates).  Do that if your current computer does not have internet access.

Install AVG on your PC that is in need of Windows Vista virus removal, but remember to update the program before doing a full scan.  Update via the internet if you have a connection or via the disk you downloaded the program and updates to.  After the scan is done doing a full scan, make sure you heal, remove, or quarantine any infections.  Also remove any warnings in that column there.

3 – Restart Your Home Computer

Hit the restart button on your pc and this time go into safe mode by pressing f8 (on most computers) when the computer is booting up.  This time do another full scan to make sure everything was removed, this is important to do so don’t forget.

4 – Re Enable System Restore From Earlier

Start button then go to the control panel and back into backup and restore center.  Create a restore point or change settings button now.  Click on system properties window now.  Mark the boxes which indicate your hard drive with your Windows Vista on it.  We are nearing the completion of our Windows Vista virus removal instructions so stay with it, just a few steps left.

5 – Enable and use Windows Vista automatic updates

In the control panel then automatic updates, make sure they are enabled and to check for updates right there.  Install all critical updates and required components, this is a must do not skip this step.

Finally, restart your home computer one last time.  If you feel your computer is not back to normal and things appear to not function correctly, seek out a professional or a more experienced friend.  If everything seems to be ok then make sure your AVG antivirus is set to do daily scans at a certain time so that you are protected in the future.  And come back and read more about Windows Vista Virus Removal Instructions.

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There was a time about a year ago when I went into Best Buy, my expectations through the rough.
It was nearly a decade after buying my first computer, a 1999 Compaq, and I was tired of the constant lagging, the inexplicable slowness and the overall evil that was AOL. It was a momentous day in my life, for I was going to take the plunge and finally buy a new computer. With several paychecks meticulously saved, I went into Best Buy wanting nothing but the absolute best in home computer quality.

I combed through the aisles of the PC’s, slowly looking through every product available. At the time, a MAC was foreign too me and frankly, harder to use than a do-it-yourself lobotomy. I finally settled on a sharp looking Dell that looked seductive and sultry, the computer basically begged me to take it home. I pulled out my credit card, drove as quick as I could home and immediately set that sucker up.

I ripped through the packaging and finally started to plug it in and operate it. I soon realized something very different; this was no longer the computer I knew, this was, Vista? I had upgraded through the years on the old 99 Compaq, eventually settling on Windows XP in about 2002. When the moment finally arrived for me to feast on the computer and cruise the internet, I could not. Windows Vista is like taking something so incredibly good, so exquisite, so irreplaceable and then taking a baseball bat and smashing it to pieces.

Windows developed the perfect system with Windows XP. Everyone, their mother’s and the neighbor down the street had a personal computer along with Windows XP and a copy of Pinball up for days upon days, which turned into years upon years. Microsoft perfected the optimal computer operating program. Now, they have taken their master prototype and destroyed it to beyond belief. Only a shred of the old Microsoft, system and/or operation can be seen in the current form –not to mention a total lack of integrity or innovation.

The old saying goes something like “don’t fix what ain’t broke,” a piece of advice that the geniuses behind Windows Vista should have thought of before unveiling this piece of garbage to the public. They took a masterpiece and made it look like amateur hour. The unnecessary and needless little tweeks are incredibly useless and by computer user standards, laughable. Some days, I just turn on my computer and let Vista load up. All I can do is just sit by my computer screen and look and ponder at how such a technological atrocity could have occurred.

Windows Vista is the equivalent of computer genocide and there is no reason as to why this should have ever happened. Although the metaphor isn’t exactly the same, it follows the same logic. Windows Vista made a terrible mistake when it unveiled this process to the world and it’s obviously evident in program sales. Amen, Microsoft Windows Vista.

But now there is a new comer in town and its name is Windows 7 and it promises to bring back the old reliable features found in Windows XP. The new operating system promises to be faster, more reliable, and make it easier do the things you love to do on the computer. Let us hope they got it right this time.

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