Tips to Keep a New Notebook feeling New

NotebookReview.com has a list of things you can do to keep your fancy new laptop secure, and running well.

So you just spent a few hundred bucks on a new laptop. You fire it up for the first time and are greeted by your “ninety day trial” of Norton Antivirus to keep your machine protected right from the start. (Or you didn’t get any included trial antivirus software, so you just fork out another $39.00+ for a one-year subscription with updates). Great, virus problem solved!

After using your new notebook for a few days, perhaps you notice that it takes more time to boot up then you’d prefer. Or you notice that your new technological wonder randomly “slows down”. Maybe your mouse pointer stutters for a few seconds. Or does booting seem a bit too sluggish for a brand new machine? Oh and by the way, what’s with all those little icons down there in the Windows task bar? Do you really need all that “stuff”?

One of the things they take a fair bit of time explaining in the article is installing Microsoft Antispyware Beta. While, I am sure this is one of the better programs out currently, I would recommend doubling up when it comes to spyware protection, and grabbing Ad-Aware, or Spybot Search and Destroy, as secondary applications to protect your computer.

Also, installing it and forgetting about it is not a good way to keep things running well, so update, upgrade, and manually run applications to make sure everything continues to work fine.

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