Evil tricks of the industry

The media puts out lots of rumor and the IT industry tends to use these fears and stories to get more business. Here are a few things that aren't true.

Defragging your hard drive will drastically speed up your computer. In reality, fragmentation does little more than increase the wear and tear of your drive shortening it's lifespan.

Microsoft Windows Vista sucks. In reality, it's actually a very good operating system. It automatically downloads and installs updates for you. It has the best troubleshooting wizards I've ever used. The Readyboost feature is incredible for fast load times on your applications. It's built-in security and the ability to put programs at the user level instead of allowing them to interact with the operating system directly is excellent.

Software suites are better because they handle everything through one interface. In reality, these suites actually have their components sub-contracted out to other companies that work for them. Their is usually very little improvement, if any to these suites in regards to stability or performance.

Daily virus scanning is important. In reality, virus protection is designed to protect your system at the door. Virus scanning only rechecks what has already been scanned. It checks for viruses from updated definitions. Usually, if your system has been infected, the damage has already been done.