Watch out!
Pressing one wrong button on your computer
could cause it to explode!
Well, obviously not.
Today, we're gonna go over 10 really common myths and lies about computers
that you should probably stop believing right now.
Some of them are rooted in reality,
and others are really just nonsense.
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So, starting off with the first myth,
that "you must restart your computer after installing every program"
or else it won't work, it's just not gonna work.
Now, though in reality
9 times out of 10
when a program says that you have to do this
it's just not true.
Now yes, on very rare occasions
you actually do have to restart the computer for the software to work,
but I could probably count that on one hand
the number of times I've seen that happen.
And the reason they say this
is because sometimes
the installation of the software
will have to modify files that are already in use by something else
and to unlock that file of sorts
you would have to restart the computer.
But in almost all cases,
if you just run the program after installing it,
it'll be fine and its not gonna break anything.
Next number 2.
"Windows is an insecure operating system."
Now this is a myth that's based on faulty logic.
Yes, it's true that most hackers target Windows users, and there are more viruses for Windows,
but the reason for that is simply because there are so many more Windows users than other operating systems
and that makes it more worth a hacker's time to focus on Windows,
so if they create a virus for Windows, it has a higher chance of "success" if you'd consider it that.
However, if you keep Windows constantly up to date, you are good with automatic backups, you don't put it off for weeks on end,
it actually is pretty secure
because a lot of hacks, many of them, rely on exploits that have already been patched, if you would only keep it up to date.
So if you don't keep your operating system up to date,
when you're going to get got and if you
are holding onto really old operating systems like XP
you're just putting yourself at risk
the next myth isn't so prevalent anymore but it's that you need
to safely eject a thumb drive before unplugging it
The reason that feature exists and it says to do that
is to make sure that nothing on the thumb drive is still being used and written to.
If you pull out a thumb drive while a file is
being copied to it or something like
that you do have a good chance of
permanently corrupting that file or
others so if you're just copy an
unimportant file to thumb drive and you
know it's done there's nothing being
read to it
nothing is going to happen if you unplug it
but if you say are saving an incredibly
important document like a thesis onto
it and you're not totally sure if it's
being accessed by another program or
Microsoft Word is still saving to it or
something safely ejecting it is
certainly not a bad idea and i would do
that but most of the time 99% of time
nothing's going to happen as long as you
don't unplug it in the middle of saving
all right number four isn't so much a
myth but its installation disks for
monitors routers keyboards and other
nonsense i think that most of you know
what I'm talking about here i have no
idea why manufacturers still include
stupid hardware installation disks with
their products and even in the few cases
where you actually do need to install a
driver for a device to work because it's
not supported by windows by default that
installation disk is going to have
completely outdated version of the
driver on it and you're going to have to
download the updated driver from the
website anyway so ignore driver
installation disks just install it
directly from the manufacturer website
number five
you don't need an antivirus if you're good
with computers wrong sir wrong now of
course common sense and good practices
for security are the best antivirus but
there are occasional situations where
you can get infected with zero
interaction or fault of your own
for example if you're visiting a website
maybe it was somehow compromised and in
that case a hacker may take advantage of
an exploit in your browser or a plug-in
for your browser and this is why it's so
critical to keep all your software
up-to-date because again most of these
exploits rely on outdated software and
if you have a really outdated version
all those exploits have already been
found for a while and sometimes it's a
drive-by attack where you don't even have
to click on anything it's just malicious
code on the website, not super often but
it can happen keeping software update
includes your browser itself your
operating system browser plug-ins and
java if you have java not JavaScript by
the way java installed in your computer
first of all I recommend disabling it in
browser altogether because you almost
never need it and i would even consider
uninstalling it altogether you almost
never see Java plugins there's only
really not that many that use it anyway
Java is one of the most commonly exploited
softwares out there and it's
because nobody keeps it up to date so
either keep it up-to-date, disable it in
your browser or just uninstall it
completely you're probably not going to
even notice next number six is related
to number five and that is if you have
an antivirus you can't get viruses
I hope I don't have to explain this one
antivirus software is not bulletproof
and many rely on virus definitions so if
it's a new virus or one that has been
slightly modified it won't be detected
because it's not in the database, of
course today any viruses also use
heuristics which looks at the behavior
of the program and spots anything
suspicious but that too is not perfect
there's a lot of false positives a lot of
false negatives as well so just because
you have antivirus doesn't mean you can
ignore all the other best practices antivirus
should be a last line of defense
number seven if you pay for a faster
internet plan websites will load faster
the only time this is true is if you
have a really low tier internet such as
20 megabits per second or less but going
from fifty to a hundred megabytes for
example
is not going to really have an effect on
how fast web sites load mostly because
websites do not take up much bandwidth
at all to load the content on them like
videos and that sort of thing might take
more but the website itself might only
be like a few megabytes at most and at
a certain point it's like using a fire
hose to fill up a bucket when you could
just use a garden hose and even with
downloading files it's usually the
website server itself that's limiting
the download speed not your connection i
mean i have gigabit and the only time I
saturate my connection is when i'm
downloading from major services that are
used to handling huge downloads like
steam for video games usenet Amazon
Google and others but if you go to
download something from an average
website they are most likely throttling
downloads because they don't have to pay
to be able to handle everyone's
high-speed internet they want to be able
to pay for a lower bandwidth and just
give everyone a slower download speed to
save costs now obviously there's plenty
of reasons to get a very fast internet
speed if you have a lot of people in
your house or you do download huge files
regularly or you just like to have fast
internet you probably know why then
obviously i'm not going to say don't get
it now
number eight is very near and dear to my
heart and that is that people who are
good with computers know how to fix
every computer problem
well for those of you who don't already
know i'm gonna let you in on some
top-secret information
don't tell anyone you see 99 percent of
the time we have no idea what the
problem is and we simply google the
error message to see if anyone else has
already figured it out on a forum or
something like that you see most of the
time being good at fixing computers
actually just means we're good at
searching for the solution and knowing
the right questions to ask about how to
find the solution that someone already
came up with so of course every once in
a while there is a problem that
apparently no one has ever had before
and that does take quite a bit of
critical thinking but most of the time
you can just find the answer as a top
search result so try yourself next time
you have never message google it and
see if you can figure it out yourself
all right number nine
I mean more ram is better well actually
it is but just like the internet speed
myth getting more than you need
probably won't help i would say for the
average person 8 gigabytes of RAM is
definitely enough i mean the most common
programs don't use that much RAM and
they only use what they need
now if you're using a heavy hitter
program like adobe premiere pro
photoshop then yeah get as much ram as you
can afford because that type of
professional work will gobble up as much
memory as you can throw at it but those
of you who do need that much ram don't
need me to tell you that but one more
thing to remember about ram is that just
important as the amount of ram is the
speed or frequency in the latency of the
ram and yes latency is equally as
important as the clock frequency so if
you don't understand how latency relates
to frequency don't buy any more ram
until you do and I did actually make
another video on my old channel here if
you want to see my explanation of that
should be pretty helpful and now finally
number ten is that you need to wear an
anti-static wristband anytime you open
your computer or else lightning bolts
will literally shoot out of your hands
and incinerate your entire computer but
really unless you're wearing like wool
socks and drag your feet across the
carpet or something
anti-static wrist bands aren't exactly
as important as you think this is all
anecdotal right here but I built several
computers open my computer countless
times even on carpeting probably not the
best idea but I've never fried
component nor heard of any friends of
doing the same i'm not going to go as
far as outright telling you to not use
one because they do help they do what
they're supposed to but if you don't use
one odds are you're going to be fine
that being said though if I were
handling and extremely expensive
component like a cpu I would still like
to play it safe and wear a simple
two-dollar wrist strap
no matter what the odds it's just not
worth the risk but if you're at least
reasonably careful there's not much to
worry about otherwise so there you have
it 10 common computer myths and the
truth behind them
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