What is the Best Office App for my iPhone or iPod Touch?

What is the Best Office App for my iPhone or iPod Touch?

Want to see what all of the major Office apps for iPhone and iPod Touch offer without wasting money purchasing them all?  Here’s our definitive guide to the best iOS Office apps, so you can learn before you buy.
iOS devices work great for viewing a variety of documents without any extra software, but if you want to create new documents or edit and share existing ones, you’ll need an Office app.  There’s a number of popular Office apps in the App Store, and today we’re going to look at the features each app offers, compare how they each render documents, and help you see which one is the best fit for your needs and budget.

First, Do You Need an Office App?

First, though, you’ll need to decide if you actually need an office app.  If you mainly use your iPhone or iPod Touch for personal use, then you may not need to view or edit documents and spreadsheets.  If you sometimes need to view documents and give feedback without editing the files, iOS’ built in document viewer works great for looking at documents in email attachments and online.  Just tap on a document or file in an email, and you’ll see a preview that renders documents almost perfectly.  Rich documents may not display fully, but it should be close enough to work.

You can also easily view your online documents in Safari, as both Office Web Apps and Google Docs let you view your files with a mobile browser.  Unfortunately, though, you cannot edit documents in either on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

So viewing documents isn’t a problem, but if you want more than this, you’re going to need an Office app.  Let’s dig in and see what’s available.

What Office Apps are Available?

The Business and Productivity sections of the App Store list numerous apps to help you edit Office documents, spreadsheets, and more.  Just from the descriptions, it’d be hard to know how each one works.  To solve this problem, we’ve tested 3 of the most popular Office apps recently: Documents to Go, Quickoffice, and Office2.  We’ll take a quick look at each one’s features here, but you can click their links to see the whole review.

Office2

Be sure to Read our full review of Office2 for iOS
Office2 fared the worst in our test.  This app is popular because it only costs $5.99, but it struggled to render documents and spreadsheets in our tests.  Worse still, it lost any formatting that it couldn’t support after saving edited documents.  On the bright side, it supports a wide variety of online documents storage services and runs faster than competing apps.

Quickoffice

Be sure and read our full review of Quickoffice for iOS
Quickoffice Mobile Connect suite is priced in the middle at $9.99, and it offers a lot of bang for your buck.  It can edit advanced documents fairly good, and then saves formatting that it doesn’t support so your document will still look the same back on your PC.  You can easily access all of your files from Dropbox, Google Docs, and more, then edit and save them online.  Quickoffice spreadsheets struggled with .XLSX formatted spreadsheets, though, but otherwise handled modern rich Office files with ease.

We especially liked the innovative web interface that lets you browse and add documents to your iOS device from any nearby networked computer.  And if you don’t need to access your documents from online storage services directly, you could get Quickoffice Mobile Suite for just $4.99.  With the advanced document support and cheaper price, Quickoffice is a great option.

Documents To Go

Be sure and read our full review of Documents To Go for iOS
Documents To Go is the most expensive Office app we reviewed at $16.99, but it’s also constantly one of the most popular in the App Store.  This app includes the best interface for editing documents, and even includes support for viewing advanced document components such as sidebars and images in documents.  It lets you edit formatting more than any of the other apps and required fewer taps to accomplish the same tasks.

Documents To Go also includes some unique features such as searching among all of your online document sources and basic PowerPoint editing.  The PowerPoint editing and creation options were very limited, though, so this one feature isn’t worth purchasing the app.  If you don’t need PowerPoint editing and online document support, you can get Documents To Go Standard for just $9.99, which isn’t a bad choice if you need to edit rich documents directly on your device.

Which Office App is the Best?

The hardest part is deciding which app is the best for your needs.  Documents To Go did support the most advanced Word document features, and was the most stable overall.  Unfortunately, though, it’s also the most expensive.  Quickoffice is a close second, and we actually liked the web interface for accessing your iPhone documents from your computer.  Office2 was poor enough that we cannot recommend it for normal Office document usage, but both Documents To Go and Quickoffice were both good enough to easily recommend for normal usage.
Here’s a comparison of each app’s features:

So, in the end it comes down to what features you need.  Need PowerPoint and online document support?  Get Documents To Go Premium.  Only need to edit documents locally on your device?  Quickoffice Mobile Suite is a great option for you that’s not very expensive.  You can’t go wrong with either of these apps, so pick the one that suites your budget and feature need best.  In our opinion, Quickoffice Mobile Suite will be the best choice for most consumers.

Filling in the Office App Gaps

Microsoft Office today isn’t just for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, though.  Outlook and OneNote are also popular Office apps that many don’t want to give up, so let’s look at some options for these.
OneNote isn’t available on iOS, but there is a great alternative app, MobileNoter that brings almost all of OneNote’s features to OneNote.  You can sync your existing OneNote notebooks from your PC and edit them on the go, or add new notes and sync them online wherever you are.  Check out our review of MobileNoter for more info.

The default Mail app works quite good for email on the go.  It includes full Exchange ActiveSync support, so you should be able to access all of your personal and business email accounts from anywhere.  The only problem is, the iPhone Mail app only lets you create plain text messages.  If you need to send full HTML emails, you can try out MarkdownMail.  This app lets you create richly formatted HTML emails on your iPhone using Markdown syntax.
Markdown syntax.

Conclusion

After some initial disappointments with Office2, we were excited to see that both Quickoffice and Documents To Go offer great Office support on iOS.  Editing rich documents is never perfectly easy on a small screen, but with an Office app, you’ll find you can do more business on the go than you ever found possible.  Plus, in many cases, viewing a document and making changes later is a great option.  What’s your favorite Office app, and how do you use Office tools on the go?  Share your thoughts in the comments.
Did we miss an Office app for iOS that you love, or overlook a feature you need?  Let us know in the comments, and if it’s something we can test, we’ll let you know!  There’s no reason to spend $50 on apps just to find the perfect Office app for your needs, so we hope this info helps you make your choice and get the most bang for your app bucks.

 

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The iPhone turns 5

The iPhone turns 5

Five years ago today, on June 29, 2007, the original iPhone first went on sale.  Steve Jobs had previewed the iPhone back on January 9, 2007, in what I think was the best presentation that Steve Jobs ever made (which is saying something).  As we got closer to June 29, 2007, anticipation was high because people wanted to try for themselves the device that seemed so different than everything that came before it.  Around the country, people lined up to be among the first to get an iPhone.
As you would expect after five years, there are tons of differences between the original iPhone and the current iPhone 4S.  Obviously, iPhones are now cheaper.  The cheapest original iPhone was the $499 model with the 4GB, or for an extra $100 you could get 8GB.  Today, you can get the iPhone 3GS for free, while the 4S starts at $199 for 16GB and the high-end 64GB model is $399.
With over 650,000 apps currently in the App Store, it seems strange that the original iPhone did not allow for any third party apps.  Developers were instead encouraged to create web pages formatted for the iPhone screen (a severe limitation, although thousands were created, many of which were surprisingly good).  As for Apple's built-in apps, because they took advantage of the iPhone's beautiful and unprecedented screen, they seemed great at the time, but many suffered from severe limitations.  For example, the original Mail app did not work with Microsoft Exchange, and that shortcoming alone was a key reason that few lawyers bought the original iPhone.  You could not select multiple e-mails at once so you had to delete e-mails one at a time.  And as was the case in all apps on the original iPhone, there was no cut/copy-and-paste.
There are important hardware differences between the original iPhone and the current iPhone 4S.  The original iPhone did not even work with 3G, and instead only used the slow Edge network.  The original iPhone's camera was only 2 megapixels and did not support video recording, let alone FaceTime videochat.  There was a headphone jack on the original iPhone, but it was deeply inset so many headphones would not fit without an adapter.  And due to less memory and a much slower CPU, the original iPhone was a fraction of the speed of the current iPhone 4S.  On the other hand, you did get a free dock with the original iPhone, something that you now have to purchase for $30.
And of course, technologies like Siri, AirPlay, Bluetooth keyboards, etc. were nowhere to be seen on the original iPhone.  Nor were carriers other than AT&T.  (The first international iPhone launch was November 9, 2007, when the iPhone was released in the UK and Germany.)
But for all of the changes over the past five years, I'm actually amazed how much the iPhone hasn't changed.  Although thinner and lighter, it is still essentially the same height and width.  We still have just the one button on the front, the sleep/wake button at the top, and the volume buttons and mute switch on the side.  The basic interface remains a grid of icons, although with the Retina display those icons look much nicer.  The basic navigation remains the same: scroll through lists, pinch to zoom, tap on the screen without to push down like on earlier touchscreens.  And the iPhone remains dominated by its large, beautiful screen, uncluttered by an always-present keyboard that had been so popular with BlackBerries and Palm Treos.  Here is the ad that Apple was running when the iPhone came out in June of 2007, and it still captures much of what makes the iPhone so special today (not to mention it still makes me hungry for calamari):

It is amazing how much Apple got right with the first generation of the iPhone, resulting in so many key iPhone features remaining the same after five years.
Few lawyers bought that original model of the iPhone, but many of us could tell that Apple was about to change smartphones forever (although I doubt that many of us could have predicted how successful the iPhone would be).  As Steve Jobs said in 2007:  "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. ... Apple is going to reinvent the phone."  I am constantly amazed at how much the iPhone and its sibling the iPad have allowed me to be a better lawyer, while at the same time providing countless hours of entertainment and learning (both for me and my kids).  As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the iPhone, I lift my glass to toast Apple for all that it has accomplished and to thank the company for creating such an amazing device.
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iPhone tips track changes metadata in Word documents

iPhone tips 
A big part of my law practice is collaborating with other attorneys, whether they be co-counsel for the same client or counsel for co-defendants. Accordingly, one feature that I use heavily in Microsoft Word on my computer is the track changes feature to suggest improvements to documents. As you know, edits show up in redline in Word on your computer and look something like this:
 he iPhone generally does a good job of reading Word files.  If one is attached to an e-mail, you can just tap the attachment to read it.  But be warned that if the document has the track changes feature enabled to show edits, you don't see the edits on the iPhone.  You instead just see what the text would look like with the redline edits accepted.  Thus, if I e-mail a Word document containing the text in the above example to my iPhone and tap the attachment, here is what I see:
Note that if I hold down on the attachment and view it in another app, I might be able to see the redline edits.  For example, if I open the Word file in Documents to Go, I correctly see the redline edits:
  
Documents to Go cannot create redline edits on the iPhone or iPad — indeed, there is currently no app that does so, and I hope that this changes soon — but it is nice to be able to see the redline edits when someone asks you to review them.
If you try to view the file in Office², you see all of the text (both the deleted text and the new text) without any indication of what is old and what is new.  Rather confusing:
  





I wasn't able to try this redline file with the Quickoffice app.  A few days ago, that app was upgraded to version 4.0.0, and unfortunately on my iPhone it now crashes every time I try to start the app.  I've been in communication with Quickoffice about this bug and they are investigating it.  If you use Quickoffice and you have not yet upgraded, consider waiting to upgrade until this bug is fixed.
[UPDATE 5/24/11:  A new version of Quickoffice is now out.  Unfortunately, I confirmed that Quickoffice Pro handles track changes the same way as Office², i.e., not well at all.]
Accordingly, there are two things that you should be aware of.  First, if you want to view redline edits, purchase and use Documents to Go on your iPhone or iPad.
Second — and this is the really important one — be aware that when you are viewing a Word file using the iPhone or iPad's built-in viewer, you are not seeing redline edits even if they are there.  Thus, if you forward that file to opposing counsel, you may not realize that you are showing the opposing counsel not just the modified version of the document but also the original version of the document with the modifications noted in redline.  Depending upon the edits, this could be disastrous for you and your client.
Under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, there is nothing unethical about your opposing counsel reviewing those redline edits that you sent him, although if he knows or reasonably should know that the transmission of this metadata was inadvertent he does have a duty to notify you.  And apparently in some states, such as Maryland, there is not even a duty to disclose.  Take a look at this helpful page from the ABA for a comparison of the ethical duties of attorneys in various jurisdictions.
There are companies such as 3BView that offer a service to remove metadata from files on your iPhone.  That can be useful if you know that the metadata is there, but my main concern is for lawyers who view and forward Word files on their iPhone or iPad without realizing that the track changes features was in use. Of all of the metadata that exists in a Word file such as author and date of creation, it is redline edits that have the biggest potential to cause headaches when you share them without knowing it.
So my advice to you is to be aware of this possibility, and take a look at a file with Documents to Go if you want to check for the existence of tracked changes in redline.
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Want to Increase PC Speed, Follow These Tips

Want to Increase PC Speed, Follow These Tips

Do you really follow that your computer is really getting slow that the past time? Are you facing working problem wants of proper speed? If yes then I solve problem that you can increase PC speed. You should know that computer doesn’t go well with time. Usually, computers have same speed from the buying day. It not your computer’s problem but the software what interferes the computer’s speed.

There is no way to go without do anything while software of your computer is affected. You need to be careful while you download any program to make the most of your performance and getting best computing understanding probable. I have found some ways for my computer to increase PC speed. These are very easy to operate and follow. You just read the below topics and work following those then you will get your PC with natural operating speed.

Scan for Spyware

Your PC may be the container of spyware and adware which are entering every day because they are coming from net that mean while you browse something or download from net. It is one of the major things what makes your computer slow nonstop. I would like to advise you to use the anti-spyware though there are some good alternative things to use.

Check for Any Virus

Virus is one of the major stuff what leads a computer working slowly. I have seen the computers which have no anti-virus program those are mainly affected by virus as a result those can’t work properly. You need to install a strong anti-virus what will protect any kind of virus. If you want to spend cash for this purpose then you should use the NOD32 but while you want to use it free then I will suggest you to download Avast.

Clean-out Your Registry

The registry fault is happened for every day and sometimes it occurs itself. So, it will be wise decision if you clean up the registry as well as fix the faults. Actually, I want to suggest you to use registry clearer from time to time because I am using it for long time and now I am pleased with its action and I am getting the normal speed of PC. You need not to spend huge time to clean out your registry. You just need to scan for two times to clean out the registry.

Use a Defragmenter

If you want to see result quickly then you should defragment your PC’s hard drive. By this process hard drive will be freed up and it is the main effective thing what will help to increase PC speed.

Delete Unwanted Files and Folders

If you find the folders and documents which are not really necessary for your regular work then you can delete those. By this way your hard drive will be freed and it will work to increase PC speed. If you think that you will need those in long future then I will suggest you to keep a backup hard drive.

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5 tips for PC health: Organize your folders, update Windows, run antivirus software

Working on a slow, disorganized computer can be frustrating—and it happens to the best of us. This article will give you some easy-to-follow guidelines on how to keep your computer on the right track using tools in Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Microsoft Office 2010.

1. Organize your folders

We all know how easy it is to dump files into the wrong folder when we're in a hurry. But one way to make sure you keep your files organized is to remove the clutter with a filing system that makes sense for the way you use your computer. Here are a few tips to get you started:

• Start clean.
  Begin by deciding which files you no longer need on your hard disk drive.
• Think it through.
  Take the time to plan the best way to organize your files. How do you spend your time on the computer, and what do you create? Do you work with photos and image-editing software, surf the web, write short stories, research school projects, or play games? The folders you create in Documents (called “My Documents” in Windows XP) can be easily tailored to show you just the kind of data about your files that you need to track. For more tips about creating a well-organized filing system, see File organization tips: 9 tips to manage your files better.
• Use subfolders.
  After you have an idea of the kinds of items you produce and want to save, create folders and subfolders to store your files. Be sure to use logical, easy-to-understand names. For example, within Documents, you might create additional folders called Projects, HR Benefits, and Career. Then, within the Projects folder, you could create subfolders for each different project.
• Clean your files periodically.
  After you have set up your file system, inspect and clean it regularly. Routine maintenance tasks, such as deleting old or duplicate files and folders and making sure that important files are in the right folders, can save you a lot of time and frustration.

Email folders in particular tend to spiral out of control, so be sure to spend time ordering and maintaining them. Microsoft Outlook 2010 offers nifty features to help you stay on top of your Inbox. For more tips, see Get organized: 7 ways to better sort, store, and search your email.

Tips:

• To create a new subfolder with Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP, right-click anywhere in the folder, click New, and then click Folder. Type the name for the new folder, and press ENTER. For more tips about creating a well-organized filing system, see File organization tips: 9 tips to manage your files better.
• To create a new folder in Windows 7, in Windows Explorer, click New Folder at the top of any folder or library. Also in Windows 7, the new libraries make managing your files easier than ever. Learn more about working with libraries.

Windows 7 makes it easy to keep track of your files and folders.

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2. Clean up your hard disk

Now that you've organized your files and folders and cleaned up your desktop, you can organize the data itself. Windows includes two utilities—Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter—that help you free up more space on your hard drive and help your computer work more efficiently.

• Disk Cleanup compresses your old files to free up storage space.
• Disk Defragmenter scans your hard drive and consolidates files that may be scattered across the disk.

It's up to you to decide how often to run these utilities, but it's a good idea to do so at least once a month. Windows Vista users take note: Disk Defragmenter is automatically scheduled to run once a week (Sunday at 4 A.M.). You can change the scheduled time for this feature or, if you prefer, turn it off.

• Learn how to run Disk Cleanup
• Learn how to run Disk Defragmenter

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3. Use System Restore

System Restore is one of those programs that can be a life-saver when you've been the unfortunate recipient of unstable software, a badly timed power outage, or a damaging thunderstorm. System Restore records important documents, settings, and preferences on your computer. If the unthinkable happens and your computer files are damaged or inaccessible, you can use System Restore to restore your computer to the same state it was in before the data was lost.

System Restore creates restore points daily and whenever you install device drivers, automatic updates, and some applications. But it's a good idea to get into the habit of creating a system checkpoint (called a restore point) when you're about to install new software or take any action you suspect might make your computer unstable. Then, if there's any conflict at all, you can restore your computer to the point just before you began the installation.

Create a restore point in Windows 7

Create a restore point in Windows Vista

Create a restore point in Windows XP

Although System Restore can put your computer back in order, it’s prudent to periodically back up all the files on your computer. Whether you choose to use an external hard disk, DVDs, or a network location to back up your files, Windows 7 makes it easier than ever to safeguard the contents of your computer. You can back up your files if you’re running Windows Vista or Windows XP, too. Learn more about backing up your data.

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4. Keep Windows and Microsoft Office up-to-date

Computer programs are continually improved based on customer feedback and regular product testing. As problems are resolved, you should benefit from those improvements. By checking Microsoft Update often, you can make sure you've got the most recent Windows and Microsoft Office improvements available to you.

Windows 7 and Windows Vista users don't need to sign up for Microsoft Update: An account is automatically created for you during the registration process, and Windows Update is automatically installed on your computer with default settings that you can change later, if you wish.

Windows XP users must visit Microsoft Update to start the update process. First-time visitors might need to sign up for the service. After you've visited Microsoft Update, you should configure your computer running Windows XP to receive critical updates automatically. This free service is called Windows Update in Windows 7 and in Windows Vista, and it is called Automatic Updates in Windows XP.

Learn how to receive critical updates automatically in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP

Important: If you do not select the recommended automatic updating option, you must download and install every critical update. If you download the updates but forget to install them, your computer will not be protected with the latest enhancements.

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5. Run antivirus software and a spyware detection and removal tool

Updating your Windows software is just the first step in keeping your computer safe. Next (if you haven’t already done so), you'll want to install antivirus software from a reputable vendor, such as Microsoft, AVG, Norton, or McAfee. As is the case with Windows, it is critical that you keep your antivirus software up to date. Free antivirus software comes preinstalled on many computers, but after the trial period expires, you’ll be exposed to new and emergent threats. Be sure to renew your subscription or to secure alternative virus protection.

If your computer seems sluggish or if you begin to see lots of pop-up advertisements, even when you're not surfing the web, your computer may be infected with spyware, adware, or other unwanted software. Learn more about spyware and what it can do to your computer.

Microsoft Security Essentials offers comprehensive protection against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. You can download it for free. You can also download the free Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

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How to make a computer faster: 6 ways to speed up your PC

By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer, help increase your PC speed, and help keep it running smoothly. This article discusses how to use the tools available in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 to help make your computer faster, maintain your computer efficiently, and help safeguard your privacy when you're online.

Note: Some of the tools mentioned in this article require you to be logged on as an administrator. If you aren't logged on as an administrator, you can only change settings that apply to your user account.

1. Remove spyware, and help protect your computer from viruses

Spyware collects personal information without letting you know and without asking for permission. From the websites you visit to user names and passwords, spyware can put you and your confidential information at risk. In addition to privacy concerns, spyware can hamper your computer's performance. To combat spyware, you might want to consider using the PC safety scan from Windows Live OneCare. This scan is a free service that helps check for and remove viruses.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials for free to help guard your system in the future from viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious software (also known as malware). Microsoft Security Essentials acts as a spyware removal tool and includes automatic updates to help keep your system protected from emerging threats.

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is another utility that checks computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software, including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom, and helps remove any infection found.

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2. Free up disk space

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you to free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.

Use Disk Cleanup to:

• Remove temporary Internet files.
• Delete downloaded program files, such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets.
• Empty the Recycle Bin.
• Remove Windows temporary files, such as error reports.
• Delete optional Windows components that you don't use.
• Delete installed programs that you no longer use.
• Remove unused restore points and shadow copies from System Restore.

Tip: Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space because the browser caches each page you visit for faster access later.

To use Disk Cleanup:

Windows 7 users

Windows Vista users

Windows XP users

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3. Speed up access to data

Disk fragmentation slows the overall performance of your system. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk as a file is opened (to piece it back together). The response time can be significantly longer.

Disk Defragmenter (sometimes shortened to Defrag by users) is a Windows utility that consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer's hard disk so that each occupies a single space on the disk. With your files stored neatly end to end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk speeds up.

When to run Disk Defragmenter
In addition to running Disk Defragmenter at regular intervals (weekly is optimal), there are other times you should run it, too, such as when:

• You add a large number of files.
• Your free disk space totals 15 percent or less.
• You install new programs or a new version of the Windows operating system.

To use Disk Defragmenter:

Windows 7 users

Windows Vista users

Windows XP users

Running Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter on a regular basis is a proven way to help keep your computer running quickly and efficiently. If you'd like to learn how to schedule these tools and others to run automatically, please read Speed up your PC: Automate your computer maintenance schedule.

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4. Detect and repair disk errors

In addition to running Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter to optimize the performance of your computer, you can check the integrity of the files stored on your hard disk by running the Error Checking utility.

As you use your hard drive, it can develop bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk performance and sometimes make data writing (such as file saving) difficult or even impossible. The Error Checking utility scans the hard drive for bad sectors and scans for file system errors to see whether certain files or folders are misplaced.

If you use your computer daily, you should run this utility once a week to help prevent data loss.

Run the Error Checking utility:

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5. Learn about ReadyBoost

If you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can use ReadyBoost to speed up your system. A new concept in adding memory to a system, it allows you to use non-volatile flash memory—like a USB flash drive or a memory card—to improve performance without having to add additional memory.

• Learn more about ReadyBoost in Windows 7.
• Learn more about ReadyBoost in Windows Vista.

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6.  Upgrade  to  Windows 7

If you try all the previous remedies and your computer still isn't as fast as you would like it to be, you may want to consider updating to Windows 7.

• Find out if your computer can run Windows 7 using the Upgrade Advisor.
• Compare Window 7 editions.
• Read a third-party review of Windows 7 by David Pogue of The New York Times.

If the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor determines that your computer can't run Windows 7 and you still have the need for speed, it might be time for a new computer. There are some great deals on new computers right now:

• Shop for new desktop computers.
• Shop for new laptop computers.
• Shop for netbooks.

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I placed an order on Dec 22, 2009 from BeautyXperts.com. My credit card was charged, I received a confirmation email, but have yet to receive the product....
www.sherdog.net  
I was searching for reviews regarding an advertised piece of exercise equipment when I noticed that my computer was very slow and then my ZoneAlarm software ...
champjersey.com  
I orderd a basketball shirt for my sons 21st birthday 12th oct.I orderd the shirt on the 3rd of sept. I still haven't received it after numorous e.mails ...
www.esouby.com.au  
Esouby is a scam site in China selling high end electrical goods and using Wire transfer for payment (untraceable). They try to hit you for an extra 50%...
www.ukbattery.net  
They are advertising Canon LP-E6 batteries, which are faulty and not the real deal. They charge the same price as the Canon batteries, which are very high ...
www.searchignited.com  
I can't get rid of this scumbag site. It hi-jacks other sites and keeps popping up on my monitor even though i have tried to block it every way that I ...
www.ripe-deal.com  
So I found this amazing website, that sell cheap phones of all kinds. I was looking for an iphone and so I went to craigslist.
I saw one ad that was unbelivable,...
cashmails.org  
I signed up back in March and knew there was no way they were going to payout $20,000 once I reached the free member level. I made the level and put in ...
zml.com  
Site looked good, so I signed in for a free movie (their offer), read the agreement and saw nothing about money, service prices, BUT (dumb me!) they asked ...
www.dvdone.tv  
I recently paid of $100 for The Practice Complete Series DVD's. I received 5 discs with the Artwork but absolutely nothing on the DVD's. SCAM ARTSIST's....
www.myfreepaysite.com  
this website asks for your credit card details to "verify" your age,and then it redraws all the money from your account and blocks all contacts from you....
safe-girls.com  
This website is just a bunch of fake profiles. I signed up and got spammed everyday. I tried to contact someone's profile and only got asked to pay more ...
www.shopinelectricals.com  
Hi, I ordered a psp from this website,since the 28yh of may, and they say it takes 4- to 8 days to ship, I emailed them yesterday, and I haven't gotten ...
mathewsmoney.com  
i saw an article claiming this fellow posted sites for google. he claimed to make 5500.00 to 7000.00 dollars a month. all you had to do is send $1.97 for ...
mangafox.com  
I was reading Manga on the site. When I got tons of popups loading in the background. I tried to exit and Firefox froze. I restarted it and had a trojan ...
depacco.com  
hi my name is sohag and i am a member of depacco.com but some of the people sys that depacco.com is a scam and they don't pay anyone but i don;t understand ...
emillionare.com  
Is this site a scam? I paid 1.98 shipping fee for some free materials and when I was signing up,I saw in fine print that after 7 days I would be charged ...
www.videogamefigures.com  
It is secure?? Help!!! www.videogamefigures.com?
in the right corner of this website there is a symbol. When you put the mouse on the symbol appears this ...
dvdglobe.tv  


hi everyone i recently ordered the seasons for courage the cowardly dog to this website dvdglobe.tv it looks legit so i bought it and it says ...
shooooes.com  




took money for nintendo wii and never received anything, cite is a scam after further investigations.

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www.eroakirkosta.info  



As a response to www.eroakirkosta.fi (which helps people get away from the church's chains) the church raised a website www.eroakirkosta.info,...
www.free-movies-and-music.com  
When you purchase a membership from them they just refer you to download free software that they did not create. You get nothing but information that everyone ...
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http://www.alittlecrafty.com  


I've ordered custom name patches from them and they confirmed my order. After 2 moths goods are not delivered and they refuse to respond to my e-...
clubtriplex  



Uses fake member profiles, pictures and fake member communications. Also doesn't site doesn't respond to customer questions/concerns.
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Tvmaximum.com  


They said they had a database for tv shows and a legal way of downloading them. There is no data base and they give you legal programs and teach ...
ad.yieldmanager.com  
I have this thing pop-up in virtually every Yahoo e-mail only on my work PC. It is very annoying. I can't seem to get rid of it unless I click on Yes ...
sexsearchcom.com  
when i subscribed to this dating site i discovered that they had wrongly charged me a second time when i checked my bank account and after a frustrating ...
Verseo.com  

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