How to blow off more efficiently

[The Gordog]

Interesting read:

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[Bluedawg]

Interesting read:

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yes it is. I work out of my home and my "office" is my flash drive so i don't have those problems.

[EarlJam]

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4. HOW TO CLEAR YOUR TRACKS ON YOUR WORK LAPTOP

The Problem: If you use a company-owned laptop at home, chances are you use it for personal tasks: planning family vacations, shopping for beach books, organizing online photo albums and so on. Many companies reserve the right to monitor all that activity, because the laptops are technically their property. So what happens if your -- ahem -- friend accidentally surfs onto a porn site or does a Web search for some embarrassing ailment?

The Trick: The latest versions of the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers both make it easy to clear your tracks. In IE7, click on Tools, then Delete Browsing History. From there, you can either delete all your history by clicking Delete All or choose one or a few kinds of data to delete. In Firefox, just hit Ctrl-Shift-Del -- or click Clear Private Data under the Tools menu.

The Risk: Even if you clear your tracks, you still face risks from roaming all over the Web. You could unintentionally install spyware on your computer from visiting a sketchy site or get your boss involved in legal problems for your behavior. If you're caught, it could mean (at best) embarrassment or (at worst) joblessness.

How to Stay Safe: Clear your private data as often as possible. Better yet, don't use your work computer to do anything you wouldn't want your boss to know about.

[MarineTwinsDad]

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How to Stay Safe: Clear your private data as often as possible. Better yet, don't use your work computer to do anything you wouldn't want your boss to know about.[/I]

To keep your work laptop or desktop "safe," deleting the history isn't enough. In Internet Explorer, under the Tools : Internet Options menu, choose the General tab. Clearing the history will delete a certain track of where you have been. But to be on the safe side (protecting your computer as well as your history), you need to delete all cookies. It's not a big deal, as DBR will always create a new one next time here. But then you need to click on the button that says Delete Files. These are also potential hazards, one way or another.

After doing that, click on the Settings, and then View files button. You will be taken to a place on your C:\WINDOWS directory that contains Temporary Internet Files. If you clicked on the Delete Files mentioned above, this should be pretty empty. But when you go up two directories, you'll see another Cookies folder. Each cookie is a hook from a site you may or may not have visited (ads from other Web sites may put a cookie here). Select all the files in that folder and delete them as well. Don't select the index file, as you probably can't delete that on.

There have been times that I've had to manually delete files contained in the Temporary Internet Files folder and the cookies in the Cookies folder under the Temp folder that had the potential to mess up my computer. The important files will be added again the next time you visit a sight. Deleting these files on a regular basis should improve your log in time in the mornings, if you are on a network at work.