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How do I backup computer files to reformat c drive? First figure out what device or medium you would like to back up your files onto. I would recommend an external hard drive. You can use CDs or DVDS but the best to use is an external hard drive. 500mb hard drives are inexpensive these days. Now check out the file size of your hard drive by going to My Computer and right clicking the hard drive and going to properties. We will check how much memory was deleted when we are all done.

Looking for a free video and audio converter to convert your files to a usable format.

MediaCoder is a free (open source) audio/video converter, which has many excellent audio/video programs combined from the open source community into one friendly GUI program. It will change just about any video file type for free.

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

I get a lot of questions about the hard drive. Questions about what slows them down. Questions about how they work, whether adding another hard drive will speed up the PC, and what is going on when a computer slows down every time the hard drive is accessed. I will address these questions in a question and answer format below.

What does the hard drive do?

The hard drive houses all the the long term data. All of the computer files that you save as well as the computer's operating system (Windows). It is much like long term memory in your mind. You can store information for a long time but never think about it.

Have you mastered using the Internet securely? This post is about questions you should be able to answer about surfing the web securely. Questions range from email security to surfing the web to computer programs to hackers. These questions are basic and you should be able to answer each one for you to be safe on the web.

Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer without the users consent. Largely do to marketing schemes.

Computer malware is largly driven by the market. Companies and organization are trying to get information about where you shop online and do with spyware. Advertise their products with adware. Keep the process going with viruses and worms.

Consumer Jungle is a web site devoted to educating people about fraud, scams, and online theft. A common area of scams is where people visit a certain website to purchase an item. When this is done, the website has the credit card information. Look for secure login symbols to make sure that the website you are visiting can be trusted.

Some websites will have you order something online but email you that they do not accept credit cards and ask you to mail cash to them. The cash can not be returned. If you are curious how in how to avoid these scams visit www.consumerjungle.org. The website was created by people who affiliated with someone who had lost money do to online scams.

The caps lock key seems to be useless to me. It is probably the least used key on my keyboard. It can interfere with entering passwords and it doesn't look good if you type caps on the web. It is disrespectful to some to see all caps. Most of us do not use it.