| Fun With Freeware 1 |
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It is wise to make a habit of backing up your important files and to prepare your computer for the installation of new applications. Act in haste and repent at leisure as our great-grandmothers used to say... When you create documents and images that you would be upset to lose, it is always sensible to keep a copy of them outside the computer, whether on floppy disks, CDs, Zip disks or other storage media. Even a hard drive that only has the Windows operating system on it, and no other software, can crash. Impatience is a major cause of trouble on computers. If the computer is slow to respond to your command, repeating the command will not only do nothing to help speed things up but may make matters worse by creating the impression that you are adding another operation to the set of tasks you wish the computer to carry out. Remember, also, that your computer system will object to two different applications trying to do the same thing at once, defying the laws of computing, and you should uninstall or disable all but one of any group of applications you have that share functions or resources before using one of them. Failure to do this may result in messages telling you that one of your programs has acted 'illegally'. Continued failure to attend to the matter may result in corruption of important files and the eventual necessity for your operating system to be re-installed, with the consequent hassle attendant upon such events. You may find it helpful to save new documents as soon as you have opened them and before you start working on the contents. Once you have given the document a name and a directory to be stored in, you can save regularly as you go along - if you hit File>Save about every five minutes, the most you can lose if there is a power cut or somebody accidentally unplugs you, is five minutes-worth of work. If you have just written down the most brilliant thought you have ever had, it is easier to hit File>Save than to try and remember what it was you wrote... It is also a good idea to get into the habit of closing windows that you are not using - the more windows that are open, the more the computer's resources are being divided and the less are available for the operation in which you are currently engaged. One thing to remember is that you can definitely have too many programs on a computer. This may not cause any actual damage but it is pointless, uses up resources for no good reason and makes finding the programs you are looking for a lengthier process. For this reason, we have included as much information as possible about each of the programs
in this collection. If, upon reading the notes, you realise that you probably will not use a program, you may as well leave it
alone. It will almost always still be there if you change your mind later.
If it has been withdrawn from circulation, there will probably be
something better to try instead! It should go without saying but, in case it hasn't, the authors of this website cannot be held responsible for any damage to your computer, software, data or any other property for several reasons, all of which you probably know already but the most obvious of which is that anything capable of producing damage is beyond our control. This website is simply sharing information about our experiences and how to acquire the freeware applications we have described, given to the best of our knowledge and with the best of intentions at no charge to the visitor.
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