Title: Problem - Laptop keeps shutting down or restarting.doc Author: AnswersThatWork.com Created Date: 1/3/2006 8:31:40 PM. I cannot click on the link to go directly to this and I cannot find it on the website. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. The shutting down is driving me crazy. Cat 2950 3 VLANs One keeps shutting down when I activate the other.Internet Explorer (IE 8) keeps shutting down. Microsoft may have come quite a ways from IE6 in terms of locking down IE, but Active. X still remains largely as it was when MS came up with it in IE3 before anyone gave any real thought to application security, and Mc. Afee alone isn't even close to enough. Just to save some time, because I have an automated way of adding this to posts..
Here's a list of tips to help keep your system running smoothly, since I assume you'd like to avoid repeats of this issue in the future. TIPS FOR A SMOOTH RUNNING SYSTEM================================The more of these suggestions you follow, the fewer problems you should have. They won't solve any existing problems you have, but if you follow them all you should be able to avoid virtually all problems in the future. Things you should NOT do- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -1: Use Internet Explorer (1)2: Use any browser based on Internet Explorer (e. Maxathon and MSN Explorer)3: Use Outlook or Outlook Express (2)4: Open email attachments you haven't manually scanned with your virus scanner. Open email attachments you were not expecting, no matter who they appear to be from. Respond to spam messages, including using unsubscribe links. Visit questionable websites (e. The jury is still out on Vista's Windows Mail, but given Microsoft's history with email programs, extreme caution is advised. Possible replacements include Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, The Bat, and dozens of others.(3) When it doubt over whether or not to allow some program, use Google to find out what it is and whether or not it needs access to the Internet. Otherwise, denying access is the safest course of action, since you can always change the rule later.(4) On Windows your options include: Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey, Opera, Flock, Chrome, and Safari. I would personally recommend Firefox with the No. Script extension for added security, but it the important thing is to pick one and use it instead of IE.(5) AVG Free and Avast are available if you need a decent free virus scanner(6) XP/Vista's firewall is probably good enough for 9. Windows users, but other options include Zone. Alarm, Outpost Firewall, and Comodo. If you have a router with a firewall built into it, there is no need for any of the aforementioned firewalls to be running.(7) Microsoft's usual system is to release security updates every second Tuesday of the month. They frequently contain security updates that will ONLY be found in that service pack.(1. You can go with a full fledged backup program, or simply copying important files onto a CD/DVD/Flash drive. For example, you might have 5 rewritable DVDs, and every day you burn your backup onto a new disc. On the 6th day, you erase the disc for Day #1 for your backup, and so on so that you have multiple backups should one disc ever go bad.(1. Replace rewritable CDs and DVDs approximately every 3- 6 months.(1. These dramatically increase the size of email messages (2- 3. X minimum) and clog up email servers already straining to cope with the flood of spam pouring in daily.(1. If you want to share photos with friends/family, upload them to some photo sharing site like Flickr or Google's Picasa Web and then send people a link to that particular photo gallery.(1. This is considered to be the same as SHOUTING and many people find it to be hard to read along with highly annoying.(1. Unless the goal is to make yourself look like a pre- adolescent girl, or someone overcompensating for their gross inadequacies, and you don't want people to take you seriously.(1. Most REAL hackers are quite content to leave you alone unless you make them take notice of you. No dinky little software firewall or consumer grade router is going to keep them out of your system. So do not go to some hacker website or chat room and start shooting your mouth off unless you're prepared to accept the consequences.
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