Updates, updates & more updates!

Hey,

So a common place where people go wrong in their computers and other electronic devices are updates! They figure "Hey, it works fine without the update and the download is upwards of half a GB, I'll just keep it the way it is" or "Too much time involved, I'll download it later". The importance of updates are not understood properly, updates NEED to be downloaded otherwise the company that made your product like; Toshiba, Acer, HP, Compaq, Lenovo, Asus, Apple etc, would not have made that update and hosted it for free download, would they? Nope, so, that's why you're SUPPOSED to download all the updates- Minor or big.

Here's my suggestion for all you people experiencing a slow, laggy, over-filled, un-updated computer:

- Create or locate you're recovery discs or original install discs
- Back-up important files; Music, movies, photos and any other document you need
- Put the recovery or OS install disc in you're DVD/CD drive
- Turn off you're computer and if you're running notebook plug-in AC Adapter
- Turn you're computer back-on and boot from you're CD/DVD Drive
- Run you're recovery to do a "Out of box state" recovery
- After recovery, connect online and download & install all updates and service packs
- After updates and service packs are installed, pop in you're back-up discs of files
- Transfer the back-up files to you're hard-drive
- Re-install you're needed programs, apps, games etc

Now, this should improve the over-all speed and reliability of you're computer. Always keep you're computer up-to-date and before doing any updating or installations make a restore point, just in-case something goes wrong.

Make sure you have 2 sets of you're recovery media be it a recovery disc from your manufacturer or a original OS Install Disc, sometimes you're discs may fail and that can prevent recovery over-all even if you can't boot, warranty's don't last forever and the company's charge top dollar to ship out a new set of discs.