15 Minutes Technical Workout for Smooth Work at Home

A Home Business Article Contributed by Shruti Sharma

15 Minutes Technical Workout for Smooth Work at Home

While Tom Cat can call for the exterminators to exorcise Jerry Mouse in the famous Tom and Jerry Show, exterminating your PC is not an option for you when you work at home and are vexed with a computer or a technical hang-up.

A little knowledge of troubleshooting and Internet security would come in handy for small problems or at least you know whom to call.

Backup Tips for Non-Techies Who Work at Home

A good hold on the backup of work done at home is as an essential of working at home because there are no backup RAID servers to duplicate data. Backup is an essential task and emerges the savior most of the time in technical mishaps.

The simplest way to backup the work done at home is to run a simple script to save a copy of the working folder in your PC daily at a predefined time. While you may be busy the windows scheduler remembers to save the work aside. This script may also be programmed to write the saved data to an external media like a compact disk or external drive.

For Internet savvy people there is the facility of briefcase to store work done in almost all email clients. However the briefcase can be used only if the data is not very heavy. Another option is to search for shareware and freeware for downloading backup utilities which have inbuilt scripts to backup the data at the end of the day. These are simple ways to safely keep the work done at home and remain assured of the standby data if the PC or the network goes down.

Virus Control for Trouble Free Work at Home

Prevention is better than cure; the same stands true for the computer network that you use to work at home. The next most dreaded contagion that effects home networks and the efficiency of work at home are the virus, Trojans, and spam. Though there is no sure shot way to ensure safety from these elements but it is worth the investment to install firewalls, anti virus software in the computers for trouble free work at home.

Ranging from $50 to $100 these single user editions of antivirus software and firewalls are worth the investment. You could choose from the eTrust EZ Armor from Computer Associates, the ZoneAlarm Pro from Zone Labs, Sygate's personal firewall or the Kerio personal firewall for protection on the Internet.

The antivirus range includes Grisoft's AVG free edition and corporate servers, Symantec Corporation's Norton Antivirus, Alwil Software's Avast 4.1, the McAfee antivirus priced within $80 for personal editions.

Help's Just a Call Away to Quickly Resume Work at Home

Now comes the big question, the once in a year (at least) possibility that your system does crash. There is no time to loose as work at home may suffer due to the hang up. There's help at hand, reach for the local classified and better still the online directory at http://www.homenethelp.com/dir/ for the professionals who are just a call away.

As for small issues like configuring the Internet sharing on your system there are numerous forums with easy to follow guides and step-by-step instructions to configure the system. There's the software giant also at help for you with their online help at the website www.microsoft com.

This bit of precautionary workout will definitely ease the experience of working at home.