Backups

As the author of a book on PC survival ("PC Disaster and Recovery", Sybex), I have to suggest occasionally that everyone should be performing them.

With all the crap being sent over the Web now, including by unsuspecting legit Web sites, you need to be doing backups of at least your essential files, if not drive images of your main hard drive.

Likely, you have a CD-R or DVD recorder attached to your system. Please. Use it.

If you need tips, I've got some great books to recommend (my own, of course, including the "PC Hardware and A+ Handbook" now out from Microsoft Press), but you can find a lot of good info on the Web, too, including at Fred Langa's site.
Update: Thanks to MissM for noting the problem with the URL. It's fixed now (I think).