Re: Backing up

In article <1148068516.956741.45540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zeborah" <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So my laptop's been becoming unaccountably slow recently; reboot
usually fixes it. Then I get home, plug it into everything, and find
the external keyboard's not working. Well, a reboot usually fixes that
too; but this time a reboot gets me the happy "Hi, er, where's the hard
disk again?" icon. (I was intrigued to note that they've upgraded the
icon. It used to be in the shape of a 3.1/4" floppy, now it's in the
shape of a folder with the Finder icon superimposed.)

Various internet activities result in all kinds of garp being downloaded to
one's machine, especially tracking cookies and the like. I have successfully
restored many machines to original performance by downloading the following
free programs from majorgeeks.com and running them on the machine. I run
these periodically on all of the machines here.

Ad-Aware (free version)
a-squared (free version: though you have to register with them to get a key)
Spybot Search & Destory (free version)

Download, update (get the latest search criteria) and run each program, and
delete anything they catch. You will be amazed at how much stuff got
downloaded to your machine without your permission, slowing the machine to a
crawl.

Rich Weyand
Working title "Message Received" complete
WIP: untitled sequel
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