Guidelines
The purpose of these pages is to provide some straightforward guidelines for people that use their computer and wish to do so in a safe and secure environment. It is not our intention to lay down hard and fast rules as each user is different.
- Using chat rooms:
The purpose of these pages is to provide some straightforward guidelines for people that use their computer and wish to do so in a safe and secure environment. It is not our intention to lay down hard and fast rules as each user is different.
- What are Chat Rooms?
Typically they are places where people meet that have similar interests. You can think of them as clubs. People meet to discuss the subject they are interested in, anything from stamp collecting to food and drink (including sharing recipes)! It is easy to get involved, be prepared to contribute to the discussion as well as 'listen' (although often one can actually listen).
Internet Chat rooms have been around for as long as the internet has been here. They are a great way of making new friends, and discovering new things as well as solving problems, such as the best way of cooking Dover sole! But .....more ...
- Internet Banking:
Over the past few years most banks have begun to offer banking facilities over the internet.
This means that we can make payments, apply for loans and take advantage of many other services without ever visiting a branch (or seeing our Bank Manager). Many people take advantage of the convenience offered.
It is important to realise, however, that the banks rely on us to follow their specific guidelines, with respect to using internet banking, in order to protect our money and our identity. You should .....more ...
- eMail usage:
eMail is now used by most computer users and has made keeping in touch with friends and family very simple. It provides us with new ways of communicating and of finding things out. Unfortunately, it also provides others with ways of finding out things about us which we would rather they didn’t know!
These guidelines will help you to ensure that you can make use of the wonders of email whilst making it harder for the more dubious practices of others .....more ...
- Wireless networking:
Increasingly, for those of us with more than one pc, we are using wireless technology to network our pc’s together (indeed, given the freedom to move around the home a wireless network provides many with just one pc use wireless technology to connect to broadband internet).
However, most are simply delighted to:
- have installed their system and network
- have the computers share the network
- have the computers share printers
that they do not consider .....more ...
- Backing Up your information:
Recently I had an urgent call from one of my clients in something of a panic. Her pc had completely stopped working. It would not start! This in itself was bad enough but unfortunately the worst thing was her inability to get at the information she needed to do her job! I forgot to mention that she works from home and relies on her laptop for business and it contained a lot of very important and sensitive information.
She was fortunate in one way, in that she had a second computer to work at, but still the information she needed, including valuable business contacts (not to mention some even more valuable personal photographs of her, her husband, their children etc.), were also stored on that same laptop.
Well the truth is the disk drive had failed.
It needed replacing and, like all disasters of this kind, it happened at the worse possible time. But this was easy to resolve wasn't it? Simply replace the old disk drive, install Windows on the system and then restore the data from your back-up! After all we all do back-ups every night don't we? .....more ...
If you wish to discuss these, or have suggestions for more guidelines, please use the Suggestions form to send them to us. If they raise any specific issues within your own environment, please contact us
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