Tips to becoming a more efficient computer user

Using your computer efficiently isn't generic, it depends entirely on what you are supposed to do with it. For example if you are sourcing sales leads by scouring google for the terms used by the type of companies you sell to, then you would do things like setting your printer page setup to horizontal and print out the about and contact and a few key info pages from the website of each client you were going to cold call, you'd highlight the key bits, like numbers, names and products with a pen and staple the document and keep it on the desk next to the phone.

If you were an internet archivist you'd probably have linux running without any hint of a gui in sight and your life would involve a black screen, a few (minimal) occurances of white (stuff you've typed) and it'd all be jolly and cosy.

A "normal" domestic user should be more efficient simply by not putting stupid amounts of applications on their system, trying to make sure the OS is kind of balanced in favour of what you like to most use your machine for and that no application which you rarely use is doing something stupid like constantly running memory-draining processes in the background.

A business user with the same degree of skill (a lay person) should not face that sort of problem since office rules will make it illegal for them to put applications on their machine. For them efficiency is about how much time you can take the piss with, how many nice emails to people you LIK you can write, how much work you can avoid doing by having a laugh instead, sharing jokes, surfing, reading the news, even writing.

Efficient computer use means "getting the maximum" out of your machine and it is a pragmatic not technical solution you are trying to establish.

By : Evelynx.