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Step 1: Operating System
- Virtual Machines
Option 3 - Switch to An Alternative Operating System

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If...
- Windows is crashing or freezing so much that it's giving you fits, making you want to pull your hair out, and you're ready for a change;
- you don't want to have to spend money on an upgrade, or can't afford to buy one;
- you want to save yourself a lot of money over the years that you'd be spending on great software, and like the idea of getting them for free instead;
- you want to save yourself a lot of headaches and valuable time you'd be spending over the years continually ridding your system of invaders and working hard to prevent new threats;
- you're tired of your system always slowing down due to bloat and fragmentation, and of having to keep optimizing it by frequently deleting or securely wiping or erasing temporary files and restore points and defragmenting your hard drive to get your system up to speed again, removing viruses and keeping your deleted private data from being recovered; or
- you're just curious to see what the other popular operating systems are like,
...switch to GNU/Linux, or maybe better yet, Mac OS X (the FreeBSD code it's based on has been carefully reviewed by 20 experts over the years, instead of just one with GNU/Linux) and follow the guidelines in step 5 to secure it.

If you're an experienced GNU/Linux or Unix user, switch to FreeBSD or NetBSD and secure it, or if you're really serious about security, switch to OpenBSD, considered by many security experts to be the most secure operating system, due to continuous and thorough security audits of its code. skip
Option 4 - Dual Boot

Here are some helpful BSD, Mac OS and GNU/Linux guides, and some easy-to-use desktop versions of GNU/Linux, some of them free!

Option 5 - Get a More Secure Version of Windows

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DON'T use Windows 95, 98, Me or even XP Home. Use one of the following versions of Windows instead. They can be made sufficiently secure, but the other versions can't. And if that's not bad enough, Microsoft no longer provides security updates for Windows 95, 98 and Me (95: since December 30, 2001 - 98 and Me: since July 11, 2006). Read the following articles to learn more.
- Windows 2000 with Service Pack
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (XP Professional plus writable screen technology)
- Windows XP Media Center Edition (XP Professional minus a few features - not XP Home - with personal / digital video recording features, known as PVR, DVR, etc.)
- Windows Vista (coming in 2007 - the most secure version - it may finally be the first sufficiently secure version by default...or not...we'll see)
- Symantec Highlights Windows Vista User Vulnerabilities
- XP Home: Don't Go There
- Home Networking in XP Home: Two Steps Back
Note: There's a catch for using Windows XP Pro and XP MCE (Media Center Edition). Upgrading to XP Pro will most likely require getting a year 2000 or newer computer, if you don't have one already.

And upgrading to the retail version of XP MCE requires buying a Media Center PC. It can't be bought separately. But if you don't need Microsoft's support or the XP MCE manual, and don't want to buy a new computer, you can buy the OEM version of XP MCE by itself.

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