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A Good Entrance
A Good Exit
Power Protection
File Management
Installing Software
Backups
Virus Safety
Virus Checks
Disk Checks
Plan on Service
Demand Support
Emergency Boot Disk


Warnings & Cautions
Crash Recovery & Prevention
Saving Binary Files

First Aid Team Bee  
First Aid

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Well the guys at MicroSoft don't seem to understand that when 100,000,000 users have to spend even one hour fixing the same problem that is 100 million hours of wasted time. Even at minimum wage that amounts to half a billion dollars. That's for just one problem that takes one hour to fix. If only it were that simple.

Warnings & Cautions
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Check this out for a few ounces of the former.

Saving a Binary File
Have you ever tried to download a zip file or an exe file off the internet only to find your screen filled with a bunch of totally weird characters. This solution should help most folks.

Crash Recovery & Prevention
  1. The "Blue Screen of Death"
  2. Total video freeze (Complete Lock-Up)
  3. Using the CTRL+ALT+DEL Task Manager
  4. Doesn't shut down and SCANDISK startup.
  5. Safe Mode
  6. F8 Computer BOOT options
  7. I screwed up everything and need a BOOT disk