AVG Safe – AVG Fast!

Just a little computer tip of the day. I’m sure most of you have an Anti-virus program on your computer or know about AVG. But just in case you don’t know… here’s a little something that can help you. First AVG Anti-virus 2012 Free Version. We have been using AVG “Free Version”  for several years and love it. It’s free with no strings attached… auto updates, auto scans, auto removals… and it does a great job. Be sure to download the AVG Free Version 2012 ( not the trial version of the full blown AVG Anti-virus ). We like the free version, but if you like you can also download the full version trial… then after the trial, purchase and download the full blown version which offers some other features. But the Free Version has worked great for us.

http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download

Then there’s the AVG Tune-up. It offers some special features to Tune-up, clean up, and customize performance to fit your user needs. I got the trial version and it fixed several problems and I was impressed with it’s features. So I purchased the program download and now enjoy both the AVG Free Anti-virus and the AVG Tune-up features that have made a big difference in performance. I was starting to get “gunked up” with registry errors and other loose ends that were slowing down my pc… now it’s running perfectly once again. During the trial it will tell you that the regular price is $49, but now $29… then offer you a special price of $24.99… if you like it during the trial, buy it… it really works very well.

http://www.avg.com.au/download/home-security/avg-pc-tuneup-2012/

So there’s a couple of pc tips to make your life easier and safer on the computer. Hope they help you. Check’em out!

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Another quick tip. Ever have a “photo” or “screen” that you’d like to capture, but “right click” - “save image as” won’t work for pictures, or you just want a portion of the screen to save some info… well here’s a tip to capture it.

Sounds cumbersome… but it really easy after you’ve used it several times.

First I keep an icon for “Paint” on my desktop for easy access.

When on the web page you want to save for reference… press the “prt scrn” key
minimize the page
open “paint”
move cursor to “edit” … drop down list appears
click on “paste” … the screen you were on is now pasted onto the paint workspace.
move cursor to “file” … drop down menu appears
click on “save as”… box opens
name file whatever you want
save as type… select “Jpeg” (standard photo format)
and hit “save”
the file will be saved as a Jpeg picture of your screen… usually in your documents/ pictures or download/ file.

I also keep the “picture” file icon on my desktop for easy access.

and there you have it… a copy of the screen that you originally saw.

you can do anything with it that you could as with any other picture… save it to a file, crop it. post it, whatever.