Improve Your Computer Skills

Improving your computer skills is necessary, in these times of changing technology. Having great computer skills can present alot of opportunities, including an increase in your income. Take a look at some of my suggestions below.

A great way to improve your computer skills, is to enroll in a computer course. If you don't want to take it in a traditional classroom, try enrolling in an online program.

There are alot of computer learning softwares, that you can purchase in the stores or online. Amazon.com is a great place to start. You can start from the basic learning programs and move your way up to the more advance levels.

Visit computer forums online. There are so many technical information that can be learnt from those forums. If you are not sure about something, post your questions and it will be answered.

Improve your computer skills by reading technical literatures. Rent books from the library or surf the internet. There are alot of educational information that can be found on the internet.

Do you know anyone who have a geeky background? Now is the time to be-friend them. They have a wealth of information to share. I am sure that they would be more than happy to share some of their technical skills with you.

Improve Outlook 2003's Performance After Initial Setup

Sometimes MS Outlook will freeze or perform very slowly after setting it up for the first time. This can occur to accounts in an organization and home users alike. Follow the steps below to fix this potential issue.

The main solution is to turn off Cached Exchange Mode. To do so, launch MS Outlook and go to the Tools menu. Next, select "E-mail Accounts."

Select the option to "View or change existing e-mail accounts", click "next."

Next, click/select your Exchange Server e-mail account (ask your administrator), then click "Change."

Once chosen, under the Microsoft Exchange Server option, click to clear the "Use Cached Exchange Mode" check box. Click next, then Finish.

Quit the program and re-launch MS Outlook.

Find Lost Computer Files

Have you saved a file to your computer and now getting frustrated because you can't seem to remember where you saved it? Don't worry, Windows has you covered. Within a few clicks you'll be happily reunited with your file once again.

Click the Start button on your taskbar.

Click 'Search' (or in older versions, 'Find').

Select 'All Files and Folders' from the next pop up window.

Type in at least part of the file name in the box.

Select the drive where you think the file may be. This could be in a folder or perhaps even the entire C: drive.

Click Search.

A window will come up that will show you the progress as it is searching. Several files may come up in this window.

When you see the file you're looking for, you can double click it to open.

Find Highly Rated and Recommended Anti-virus Softwares for Absolutely FREE?

Is your so called 'free' Anti-virus software that came with your computer expiring? Why should you again pay for Anti-virus softwares when you can find equally competent anti-virus softwares for Absolutely FREE? Here I am listing three of most commonly used & highly rated FREE anti-virus softwares. They have a great reviews from users as well as experts.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.1: Very well-known, absolutely FREE of charge for LIFE! Easy to use and will not make your system crawl, low system resource requirements, automatic updating, real-time protection. The Direct link of the software is given in the resource section of the article.

Avast Home Edition: On Demand Scanner with simple skinnable interface, just select what you want to scan in which way and press Play button, email scanner for most available email clients, P2P protection for Kazaa, Bittorent, web-shield and much more. The direct link of the software page is give in the resource section of the article.

BitDefender Free Edition: Virus Scan, Scheduler, Live Updates, Quarantine, Reports, On demand scanning. Less known, but very powerful Antivirus software. Automatic and manual update. The direct link of the software page is give in the resource section of the article.