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And please do yourself a favor and purchase a external hard drive at least one a year till you have two to three of them. Why would you want to do that, well when a hard drive dies your data dies with it having some of that data on multiple drives can really save your butt in a pinch.
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I’ve never used VPN for anything other then work related stuff, but I’ve been reading a lot about folks using it as a security protection device while surfing the web in public location like hotels or restaurants.
I’ve yet to use an Microsoft account, I would recommend you use windows 10 with a local account because what usually happens is they forget the password and will not be able to login to the PC account. With local accounts the administrator can just reset the password.
I use AVG Free and it’s what i install when I work on other peoples PC’s. What most home users need to check on is that most of the ISP providers offer free licensed security suites for home setups. For instance, I’m located in Oklahoma City and Cox Cable offers Mcafee Security Suite license for 3 PC’s for free to their internet customers.
So what I do when i’m working on someones PC is install AVG free then tell folks to contact Cox Cable or AT&T and request the free anti-virus suite. I do the AVG Free install just in case the person get’s lazy and never checks with the ISP provider to get the free software and don’t forget to disable the defender or any other anti-virus program before installing the security suite. They will conflict with each other thinking that the other is a virus or mal-ware.
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Not a bad article, but if I was you I would get the bios key and go ahead and download a copy of windows even if you’re not planning on upgrading to windows 10, It’s just a way to get ahead of the dead hard drive problem most people run into. Did i also mention you need to have an external hard drive to store documents and pictures on, it would make the perfect place to store your windows 8 or 10 iso file with the key that you pulled from the bios.