Get Green and Stay Green with Windows Live OneCare

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Brandon LeBlanc
06:36 PM Monday
Mar 17, 2008
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To help celebrate St. Patrick's Today - the Windows Live OneCare Team is kicking off a brand new campaign: Get Green Stay Green.

The Get Green Stay Green campaign is designed to make sure Windows Live OneCare users are staying "green" - meaning their PC Health Status. Here is Amy Barzdukas, Senior Direct here at Microsoft, to talk about Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC safe. Amy leads the Windows Live OneCare Team.

Video: Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

I use Windows Live OneCare on my 3 personal home PCs - which are connected together in an OneCare Circle (you can have up to 3 PCs in an OneCare Circle). This lets me manage the PC Health for all my personal PCs. If any of my PCs in my OneCare Circle have their PC Health Status change to yellow or red, I can quickly see which PC it is and why. I can then do what is needed to bring that PC back to green. Keeping all my PCs green is very important to me. If any of my PCs slip into yellow or red - I fix it immediately.

I have a few tips to share from personal experience in keeping my PCs green in my OneCare Circle that you can use to help keep your own PCs green:

Make sure you have your PCs backed up. Windows Live OneCare can backup your PCs automatically to a centralized point on your home network. In my case, I have all my home PCs backed up to my Windows Home Server which Windows Live OneCare detects.
Have your firewall turned on. Windows Live OneCare can maintain and monitor your firewall - protecting your PC from attacks. Even though I'm behind a pretty secure router - I have the firewall turned on for all PCs in my OneCare Circle to add an extra level of protection.
Make sure Protection Plus (malware definitions) are up to date. This ensures your PC is protected from the latest internet garbage.
Do a PC Tune-up! Windows Live OneCare can do regular Tune-ups that can ensure your PC is running at its best.
Make sure your PC has the latest updates from Windows Update. Important updates are key to ensuring your PC stays green.

Again, keeping my home PCs green is very important to me and the above tips help me to do so.

Do you have any tips for Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC green? I'd love to hear them. Leave a comment below. I would be particularly interested in hearing about how you use Windows Live OneCare to ensure your PCs are backed up.

Users can also visit http://www.getgreenstaygreen.com/ and find out what it takes to keep their PC "green".

Comments

windows vista ultimate...

Posted on: March 17, 2008 at 7:27PM
thanks for the info but im using avg antivirus free edition since windows vista is more safer but whatever hey i heard windows vista sp1 realeses march 18 which is in 1 days so thats cool
The MAZZTer

Posted on: March 17, 2008 at 10:16PM
Urgh... OneCare would never stay green for me... I had a critical update on Windows Update that would always come up to be installed no matter how many times I installed it... so I was never green. :| Very annoying. Once XP SP3 comes out I'm gonna reinstall Windows again...
happyandyk

Posted on: March 18, 2008 at 9:57AM
Thanks for the info :)

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newscientist2000

Posted on: March 19, 2008 at 3:48AM
Funny Enough, I scared the livin daylights out of myself this weekend when I accidentally deleted one of by NTFS partitions on my computer.

I guess I accidentally clicked on one to many partitions when I was using the Administrative tools/ computer management console on XP and then woops its gone. Guess that will teach me to tripple boot PCLinux OS, Windows Ultimate and XP Home on one machine.

Luckily for me after going through a list of semi useful mostly shareware/demo software, I found TestDisk

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Worked like a charm, fairly easily undid my stupidity, and best of all it was free.

Diskinternals Partition Recovery did a good job of finding my files though, but it was expensive and beyond my budget.

Anyway I learnt my lesson, I must backup more frequently. Anything that can make backups easier is a step in the right direction.
newscientist2000

Posted on: March 19, 2008 at 3:57AM
Oh and I hope that the traffic light colors for the software can be adjusted from their defaults so that they are informative to the colorblind.
windowsxp

Posted on: March 22, 2008 at 11:53AM
I havn't used any Microsoft (or should we say MicroCrap) product since 1980. Bad Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.

The products in my home is following:

Two iPhone (for me and my wife) (NEVER TABLETPC! OR OTHER MANUFACTURES!)

One iPod Touch (NEVER ZUNE!)

Two iPod nano (NEVER ZUNE!)

One Mac Pro (NEVER PC!)

One iMac (NEVER PC!)

One Mac Mini (NEVER PC!)

One MacBook (NEVER PC!)

Two Apple 23" Cinema Display for the Mac Pro

One Apple 30" Cinema Display for Mac Mini

One AppleTV (NEVER WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER!)

One Playstation 3 (NEVER XBOX360!)

Four Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Installation Discs

iWork, iLife and many other products from Apple.

Any Microsoft product like f------ Office, Windows - nah

Microsoft = :-(

hahalol microsoft are BAD THEY ARE EVIL. WHY CAN*T APPLE BUY MICROSOFT SO I WON*T SEE MICROSOFT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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