My first computer.

Ryo

So after waiting almost 16 years I finally have a laptop of my own. I am pretty much a computer noob and I know that I am not using my laptop at even half it potential. So could people here that are experienced with computers give me any tips/help/advice for general programs or stuff a "good computer" should have? So far basically I just have everything the computer came with, mIRC and shoddy battle...

For reference this is the laptop I have that I got at Costco http://www.costco.com/Browse/Produc...lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC10590-Cat56670&topnav
 
Thanks Firestorm. I'm downloading Firefox right now. Also it seems I am having slow download speeds like 16kb/sec. I'm pretty sure it just because of my cheap broadband so upgrading should have a big effect right? or is there something else I can do?

Edit: Looking at antivirus stuff. Also do I need a firewall (whatever the hell that is...) I feel like a real noob lol.
 
If you're interested in a good quality free firewall, look into Comodo. It feels like it's interfering with your applications to begin with, but once it's "learned" how you operate, then it's a big asset.
 
you *might* still need ie for various windows downloads and websites.

as far as firefox goes there was a great "speed up your internet" (or something) thread posted a while back I think, might have gotten purged though
 
Eventually you'll want to get CCleaner to remove junk and cache data. You won't need it now, but you might if you need more space later on.
 
1)Type "about:config" into the address bar (no spaces) and hit Return

2)Scroll through the list you now see until you find these entries and set them to the true or false value shown (just doubleclick them and they will change)

network.http.pipelining true
network.http.proxy.pipelining true

Now change the value of:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8

(This tells the browser to make 8 connections at once on the hosting server (default is 4) the limit in Firefox is 8)

3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before acting on received information.

All done, now you should see a fairly noticeable improvement in browser speeds.

That was the thing that made Firefox faster.
 
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