Tips+and+Tricks

=**//Tips and Tricks//**=

This page contains links to tips and tricks that you can use in your everyday computing!

1. **Back-up, back-up, back-up.** One of the most important thing to do when working with technology is to save whatever you are working on often and in various places. Keeping multiple copies of documents on different machines/devices safeguards against losing the information you have worked so hard to create.

2. **Ctrl + Arrow R or L** When you are looking through a document in Word or other word-processing program, you can save time scanning by pressing control and the right or left arrow. This will progress through the document by word, instead of by space, which will be much quicker.

3. **Clean and Defrag** In order to keep your computer running optimally, you can do these two things: 1) Clean unneeded files off of your hard drive with an application like [|CCleaner]. This should be done once every two weeks or more depending on how much you are online. CCleaner is a free application. 2) Defragment your computer at least once every two weeks. The more often you defragment, the quicker it will go. You can use the defragment tool that came with your computer or there are free tools that you may download as well. One such free tool is [|Defraggler.]

4. **Freeware** There is a lot of great software available to you at no cost. With a little looking and experimenting you can find great applications to make your computer experience more enjoyable and efficient. Some good sites to look on are: [|Snapfiles.com], [|FileHippo.com,], [|Sourceforge.net] and [|Majorgeeks.com].