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Personal Computers (PCs) are ubiquitous today, being used extensively by people from all walks of life. Apart from using it at the workplace, we use PCs at our homes for entertainment, education, research, communications, keeping your personal finances in order, enhancing your professional career (be it Medicine, Law, Design, Photography/ Film making, Fashion Designing, whatever…), enhancing your hobby (be it painting, music, fashion designing, or a number of other activities). The coming of the PC has indeed made it possible for each one of us to do much more, much more cheaply, much more quickly and much more innovatively!

Like any other equipment, PCs (we include both Desktop as well as Notebooks, under this definition) need to be maintained carefully. A PC that isn't cared for would not only have no hope of lasting as long as it should, it could also break down when you want it most! And it could take along with it all your precious data, painstakingly collected over years of hard work! Indeed, your PC is replaceable with a newer, faster one - but your data is irreplaceable, isn't it!!

Unfortunately though, unlike other equipment, traditional kind of maintenance alone isn't enough to keep a PC "well-oiled"... That is, healthy, trouble-free and working optimally. To explain that: a well-maintained and carefully-driven car is safe on the roads. However, a PC that is physically wiped and cleaned every day is still unsafe: PCs need to be protected against Viruses, against Security loopholes in the programs they run, against Spyware that are specifically targeted to ferret out your personal information from your PC, and so on. You could always get in touch with professionals when your PC breaks down, but by then, vital personal information may already have reached unscrupulous elements half way across the globe! Moreover, you end up spending hard-earned money on something that would not have happened, if you had been better-advised and better prepared for! This is where WellOiledPC steps in, with our experience of running healthy, trouble-free PCs over so many years now. All the content on this is for you to go through, for free!

Yes, all information on any of the pages on welloiledpc.com are absolutely free and will always be free too! We charge you only if you want a specific solution/ information/ recommendation from us, for your specific needs! So for example, if you want information on whether a Lenovo Notebook is a better buy than an hp, we have a simple yet tried and trusted (and freely-downloadable) mathematical model you would love to use. However if you want us to compare two or more specific Notebook models and have us give you a custom recommendation based on your needs, that would be chargeable! Similarly, all information about, say, Microsoft Exchange Server on the site is free of charge. However, if you would like WellOiledPC to advise you on how to install Microsoft Exchange - or check out the installation of the same at your organization, that would be chargeable!

WellOiledPC is dedicated to solving various PC usage problems like Viruses, Spyware, Hardware problems, e-Mail problems, Internet problems, etc., thus helping PC users keep their PCs WellOiled at all times.

WellOiledPC will highlight safe computing practices and will make available its expertise to the public at large, in the form of;

a)  Safe computing tips spread across the site

b)  Newsletters focusing on current computing issues, including tackling the latest virus and spyware threats

c)  Bringing you best-of-breed Security products, by means of our affiliation with vendors of trusted, leading Security products

Our team of experts would love to hear from you, would love to help you overcome any Computer problems!

WellOiledPC is dedicated to PC users who seek simple, effective advise for keeping their PCs and Peripherals trouble-free and in healthy condition

WellOiledPC is also for people looking to purchase their first (or second or third...) PC, and who welcome advise on how to get the best PC that their money can buy. This isn't as easy as it sounds - prices, product specifications/ models and customer service standards change faster than fashion trends!

WellOiledPC is also dedicated to small/ medium offices with a small Network of PCs and a few Servers, who welcome advise on correcting PC, Peripherals, Add-ons or Network problems, thus squeezing maximum Returns from their IT investments (RoIs)

WellOiledPC is also for small/ medium offices who want advise on expanding their IT infrastructure. Enterprise-wide solutions abound, ranging from the merely expensive to the horribly expensive. So do "Enterprise-wide solutions" that end up as a millstone around one's neck, a white elephant of an investment! One needs to tread carefully in these waters!

Here is a broad outline of the topics covered at WellOiledPC – each of the Blue Links are clickable and will take you straight to the corresponding section at WellOiledPC. However, we advise you to click on the link for the website - http://www.welloiledpc.com, to enter the site

Do note that the topics with a Red Exclamation Mark (!) are pages that are under construction and therefore are not clickable at the moment... However, these will soon be completed.

o       What is a WellOiledPC?

o       Keeping PCs  WellOiled

o       Purchase Decision Model: Deciding from amongst Notebook/ Desktop, including Assembled/ Branded Desktops

o       Keeping Desktops WellOiled

o       Keeping Notebooks WellOiled

o       A Comparison of the Best Antivirus Programs

o       A Comparison of the Best Spyware Programs

o       Windows Registry Secrets

o       Peripherals & Add-ons (!)

o       e-Mail and your PC

o       Internet and your PC

o       Absolutely Essential Software for your PC

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