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It’s a trap many business owners fall into: focusing on the big wins—sales, client growth, product launches—while letting expense tracking slide until the end of the month, quarter, or even the year.
The problem? By the time you notice where your money is going, you’ve already lost the chance to make smart, timely adjustments. Tracking expenses early isn’t just about staying organized—it’s about protecting your bottom line.
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Question from Geneva: I keep reading about all the computer viruses going around and how they can cause you a bunch of problems.
I’m a complete dummy when it comes to this stuff, Rick. How can I find out if my computer is infected? [Read more…]
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Over the years I’ve worked on lots of computers that exhibited all the classic signs of a malware infection.
And as you might expect, many of the owners of those machines insisted that the problem couldn’t possibly be malware because they regularly scan their systems with antivirus programs.
But when I ran my own scans on those systems, I often discovered that they were indeed infected, some of them with dozens of viruses, spyware objects, malicious toolbars and other digital nasties.
How could that be? [Read more…]
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Question from Ethan: I was reading an article last night that discussed using part of a computer’s unused RAM as a RAM Disk, and it got me to thinking.
I have a 6 year old desktop computer that’s running Windows 10. It has 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.
This machine runs really slow, coming almost to a crawl at times. After doing some research I’ve determined that it’s likely sluggish because it’s doing a ton of swapping back and forth with the page file.
Do you think moving the Windows Page File to a RAM Disk would help speed it up? [Read more…]
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Modern computer hardware is generally more reliable than what we had back in the early days of personal computing, but users still frequently lose irreplaceable data due to hardware failures.
There are many reasons for data loss that range all the way from the simple failure of a hard drive to catastrophic events such as lightning strikes or fire damage. [Read more…]