The following I took from my site after doing the research back in Dec. This is mostly for our XP users. I have yet to assemble my Vista info. Use and be careful out there when installing security patches...especially if you game. Anyway onto the info>>>>>>
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Has Microsoft hosed you lately? If not - give it time. At some point either the updates, security patches or the new tools microsoft is trying to push on you will make something on your PC fail. I have fixed countless PCs and have dealt with my own PC issues thanks the microsoft. Recently the latest security patches have caused some considerable pain. So my intent of this thread is to help those out there with PC problems from microsoft, viruses or your own mistakes.
Here is a few sites of interest:
For all your site needs - I use TweakHound. After doing it the hard way for so long - I am getting back to the basics. I use to ghost my images using norton but haven't done any proper backup procedures the last 2 years. Now I'll give the arconis app tweakhound recommends a try. I am setting up my main pc for gaming and my drone pc for gaming/web surfing/web design and graphics. So for backing up, services setup, cleaning windows, bandwidth tweaks and more check out Tweak hounds link.
Again all the sites are good sources of information so if you don't see what you need then try the other ones. I'll constantly update this information as I come across more. Others are welcome to post links to sites they use.