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Answer - Yes you should - always advisable to keep up with latest updates and hopefully better security. But also consider installing : Opera, World Browser, Firefox, Lunascape (which is a hybrid browser) Most will import your IE settings. May have to reinstall some of the tool bar features.

mmm If you Windows install is screwed up then what better time to install Ubuntu Linux. It's free. You won't be a target for bad hackers. It is robust and so much faster It is graphicall driven. Install and configure is so much smoother. No regular masisve security updates. Runs...

Yes... reading a lot of the replies..... Low memory. Celeron processor... No need to reinstall Windows. That is over the top. And memory is cheap so upgrade to 1GB if you can. Either way read on.... Things that affect your performance. (1) Norton Antivirus / Norton tools. If you have...

My, my, my... IE 8 is very good. But being that it is Microsoft the bad hackers (yes there are good ones too) will continue to seek to exploit all the vulnerabilities of IE. Security always seems an issue for Microsoft products - partly because of who they are. FFox - great browser - some...

mmm... if you have a belking wireless router it will either have wireless security through WEP (or some other protocol), MAC address filtering (a strong form of security based on the physical address of the wireless ethernet card) or it may have no security at all. Any wireless device...

This is an interesting thread (new to this forum). Awareness >>> Black & Decker acquired DeWalt in 1960. B&D are huge in the US. I have the Dewalt DC 725 package (DC100KA). What attracted me was the Brand name of Dewalt and the trade saying "Dewalt, Dewalt, Dewalt....". I always have a...