The 10 Best Ways to &*$% Up Your Computer
|We expend bunches of keystrokes detailing how to recover from disaster, everything from sweeping spyware from your system to how to get your data back from the digital graveyard, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios in the first place. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or in in the world of PCs, hours of frustration.
On the flip side, maybe you have a masochistic desire to destroy your system. What better way to force your hand at upgrading then to render your current rig all but unusable? We don’t condone killing hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of hardware, but hey, it’s your stuff at stake, and how you choose to use (or abuse) it is up to you.
Either way, follow along as we show you the 10 worst things you can do to your PC and how to avoid them.