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This
is a good time, while things may be a little slower than usual,
to "Clean House." Time to check your software and see
if you need to upgrade.
Some
companies offer you free upgrades of their software several times
a year depending on whether or not they have made changes or improvements.
Other companies offer upgrades annually for a fee.
Now
is the perfect time to go to those company sites and see if they
have free upgrades available. Place a folder under favorites and
call it upgrades, then bookmark each of these sites to that folder.
This way you will have an easy way to get back to it if you need
to.
Companies
like Microsoft offer what they call a patch. These are not exactly
upgrades; they are intended to fix something that might prove to
be a problem in the future or to prevent a security problem. But
other companies like Adobe offer upgrades directly on their website.
You need to look for the support section or their product section
and then see if any of the fixes or upgrades is necessary for your
computer. Incidentally, you'll find the latest VisualTour update
to version 4.0.6 at www.visualtour.com/downloads
This
is also a good time to backup some files and delete others, but
before you delete make sure you won't need them in the future.
One
way to remove files from your computer is to take old files, which
you no longer need, and burn them onto a CD for safekeeping. Pictures
of houses that you sold during the first 9 months of last year,
for example, can be saved on a cd. If you happen to list that house
again you will have the old pictures along with some new ones. Just
be sure to clearly label everything so that you know what each disc
contains and you don't have to put it into the computer to check.
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