One of The best Free tools for Computer use is a password manager keepass password safe will manage unlimited passwords for you and even has categories To separate different ones like email and Internet.This program works in internet explorer 6 or 7 and firefox 2 or 3 just drag and drop into windows,quick and easy saving you a load of time and no more lost passwords when setting up a new account make sure you save it into keepass and you are set its encrypted and safe.if needed you can safely print out your usernames and passwords to put in a safe place for a hard copy.This Program is open source which means it is free,updated and improved upon often.Making Sure your computer is there when you need It! Backing Up No you don"t even need xp or vistas system restore a lot of times these will not work or go back far enough. So what do you do?Use a Disk Image Program There are Quite a Few out there one of the best is True Image There is also Norton Ghost and Then O&O Disk Image There is more Disk Imaging Programs Then These But These are The Best Ones.Install Pick Your Type Of Backup and Place External Hard Drive A Second Partition or DVD Media Or CD Media Even Blue Ray Media These Programs will get you back up and running no matter what a Virus,Worm Or Corupted Windows. So Go ahead And Chose Which One Some will give a trial but you will not be able to really do a restore or full backup so just check out some reviews of each and decide from there.There is another very Important piece of software it is for your hard drive Sometimes they wont boot or their own Manufacturers software say there is a problem with the hard drive well in a lot of cases This software will fix it its called SpinRite 6 It is not real Cheap But it can Save you a lot in time and bad hard drives. the Inventer Steve Gibson is been around for a while Check Out his and Leo Laportes Security Now Podcasts
