Welcome to Planners Pointers! Each day thousands of people take their cars in to get inspected or do 50,000 mile check ups. People go to the doctor's to get all sorts of check ups. We go to dentists for our teeth, chiropractors for our backs.
What about our computer? Many of us meeting and event planners are one person shops linked to the outside world via our computer. Let something happen to it and our world crashes!
Could our computers need a day the computer spa. A day of deep temporary cleanses. A good keyboard manicure, A hardware tune up!
Here are six things to think about as you look at your computer.
1. When was the last time you did a complete back up of your files? I have a friend who almost lost all of her client files because her computer got corrupted. She was in tears! There are several ways to do this including backing up to an external hard drive or using storage with such web based products as Carbonite. For the cost of a couple of latte's you can have peace of mind for a year. I have a friend who has both an external hard drive and has a subscription to Carbonite.
2. Are your virus checkers up to date? How often do you virus scans? Do you have more than one virus checker. Sometimes they don't work well together and you can have problems.
3. Same goes for your malware detectors. I had a friend who let her teenage grandson use her computer. What he did was perfectly innocent, but it cost her more than $200 to fix the problem that the malware created.
4. Is your computer running slow? How many programs are you running in the background? Do you need all of them to be running in the background?
5. Slow to boot up in the morning? Check what is in your Start Programs Do you really need to have the small programs to start automatically?
6. Speaking of programs. Are you storing programs you are no longer using? When you install a new version of a program are you making sure to uninstall the old program first? Do you do automatic updates of your programs?
Next time you schedule a tune up for your car, make one for your computer as well. Spending the day at the spa? Send your computer for its own spa treatment with your favor computer technician You will both be refreshed!
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