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Any recommendations for reusable spray bottles?
I buy a book about natural and organic household from my friend's bridal registry for her bridal shower. With the book, I would to put together some DIY natural housecleaners with essential oils, etc. I want to find the ideal spray bottles to make detergent in. I've never thought about what would be the "best" spray bottle. Any suggestions? It would be great to stay away from plastic bottles, but I am worried that aluminum cylinders can react with detergents. However, the line stainless steel spray bottle I found is too expensive. Is there anyone who has any suggestions for high quality spray bottles in the $ 5 range?
These http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog% 5Fname = & USPlastic category% 5Fname = 14954 & product% 5Fid = 14812 is what I use. I have spent almost a day for almost 5 years without any problems. Same location also makes glass lab bottles and spray heads or flip top, York or other separate spout.
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Computer Housekeeping Tips
Clean Up, speed up my computer
See this article with live links on my blog mail: http://ComputerHousekeepingTips.blogspot.com
External Computer Care, a canned air to blow out the keyboard and an alcohol swab to clean the keyboard and mouse are standard in my desk drawer. And NEVER use Windex or alcohol on your screen. You will streak the optical coating and you will regret it forever. Use only water and a soft cloth.
The internal computer is a little care more intense and takes more time and knowledge.
1st Remove any 3rd-party "Toolbars" and "extensions" such as Yahoo and Google search bars. These hold their own internet stories.
– Click Start> Control Panel> Add / Remove Programs
– Find the program and highlight it (ie AOL Toolbar)
– Click "Change / Remove" or "Remove" (depending on the configuration shown)
2nd Run Utility Disk Cleanup to get rid of unnecessary files that clutter your hard drive. (I've never had a file is deleted, that I actually needed.)
– Click Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Cleanup
– It will run a calculation, and show you the results
– Click OK to let it delete the files.
3rd Team My Documents file system managed like (hopefully) your paper file system.
– Open "My Computer"
– Create files and name them by subject (right click> select "New Folder")
– Click and drag the files into the new Folders
– There are programs that offer "free file management", but just keeping yourself organized is the best way.
Get the 4th and run a spyware removal program. My favorite is AdAware from Lavasoft. Be sure to find a free version download.
5th Download and run a virus protection program. I use the free version of AVG. It does a great job and not weigh down my computer system, as opposed to Norton and McAfee.
6. Perhaps the most important "deep cleaning" tool is a Registry Cleaner. Registries are great big libraries, and when the books come out of place, error messages flash on the screen. If you ever see one. dll error, it is a registry error. Registry Cleaner organize it all back in order. Find a free one is difficult, but one I found is CCleaner. A free cleaner will never be as thorough as one bought cleaner. They run usually around $ 30.
Here are a few 'to buy' cleaning staff gets good reviews:
Uniblue Registry Booster
RegistryEasy.com
7. There are also programs that will offer to "delete internet history free", but why download another program to do something simple yourself? Because of the many different browsers available, I will not mention them all here but a few of the most widely used browsers are:
Firefox – The best way to keep your hard drive clean is to install Firefox and Internet Explorer leave behind.
1. Open Firefox web browser.
2. In the main menu, select Tools> Options> Privacy
Click "Clear All"
Internet Explorer allows you to manually remove some of your browsing history data, but there will still be traces of browsing history, as professionals could quickly find.
1. Click Tools> Internet Options> General
2. Click "Delete Files" and then "OK" Click "Delete Cookies" and then "OK"
Click "Clear History" and then "Yes".
America Online browser is based Microsoft Internet Explorer. Besides the above information, here are practical steps to clear your AOL browsing history:
1. Click "settings" from the set of buttons at the top of the AOL window.
2. Click "Settings".
3. Click "toolbar and sounds."
4. Click on "clear history trail now."
Other browsers offer similar functions, investigate their menus thoroughly.
How to Backup Computer Files
It seems as if your computer is too powerful tool, until you lose your files, and you realize the computer is the box that held the important things. You MUST backup computer files on a regular basis. And there are many ways to achieve this. I will list them here, you choose 1, 2, or more, and then make it a priority to make your selection in action!
1a) manually backup your files to an external USB flash drives. These are cheap, they come with lots of gig sizes, and by far the best one is the SanDisk because of an onboard backup program "as a service to you.
At NewEgg.com, in the search box, type SanDisk USB flash drives. Find one with the approximate Gigabytes you need and buy it.
1b) When you put the sand in your computer, order a program that will try to open called "CruzerSync." Click it, enter a username and password, and then choose which files you want it to back up regularly.
2) Buy an external hard drive, which usually comes with tons of concerts in space. (Also at NewEgg or a local shop.) This is the method I use. I paid around $ 150 for it 3 years ago and it works like a charm. I plug it into my computer. "My Computer" section, see it, and I just click and drag "My Documents, My Pictures, My Music" to "external disk ". It's fast, easy and simple. And I still have plenty of room to continue to add more files.
3) Buy an online data backup tool that will automatically secure backups of your computer files every day. These usually cost about $ 50 per year. You will not even know the backup is happening, and you can see if a file is selected for backup of a handy little checkmark icon that appears next to the filename.
One of the most popular on the market are Carbonite and I highly recommend so if an online secure data backup is your preferred method.
Windows System Restore, How to
Here is a secret computer that I use only once in a while – but it is a Biggy:
System Restore – the best thing Microsoft ever have done for their clients. This will save you tremendous heartache hours of re-setting, regardless FREAK happened to your computer. I am a power user, I know what I'm doing, and yet I have to do a System Restore about every other month. inexplicable things happen, this is how to solve them:
Windows XP users:
1.click Start
2.All Programs
3.Accessories
4.System Tools
5.System Restore
6.Click Next
Window Vista users:
1. Just type Restore the Start menu search box and you will immediately see System Restore at the top of the Start menu
The dates in bold writing is the most recent restore points, which is set automatically each time you switch off. (Another good reason to do a system crash last night.)
1.Choose a date very close to the time you discovered the problem.
2.Click Next
3.Read screen, click Next, and confidence. It should all be fine.
If the problem still persists, please choose another date a little further back.
(You can go back two months, but I will not recommend it. Inch your way back a bold-date at a time until the problem is resolved.)
Warning: Sometimes System Restore does not solve the problem. At this point, you need to fix it by trial and error. Of all the times I've used it, it worked 98% of the time.
About the Author
I’m Andy Lanning from Boise, Idaho and I teach people how to use computers.
Excel Certified Expert
Word Certified Expert
20+ years computer use
15 years instructing at local college and businesses
I’m strictly a laptop owner (2) and 1 amazing Mac.
My vices: I’m an Excel junkie and an Email addict. There must be a support group out there for this…
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