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Transcript for Stop Doing These Things to Your Computer
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Will you guys stop doing these things to
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your computer this is what we're going
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to be talking about today some of the
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things that people say and do with their
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computer so common sense is as good as
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any antivirus that's simply not true if
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you think you're smarter than an
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antivirus program and you'll be able to
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detect all malware on the internet and
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stop you getting infected then you're
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going to be mistaken you could get hit
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by ransomware at any one time and it
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could simply just completely encrypt all
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of your data and that is the biggest
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problem that you're going to see with
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people saying they don't need an
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antivirus you do need an antivirus and
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you need to have it running on your pc
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it doesn't really matter what antivirus
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you got
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you just need to use one to protect all
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of your data and also to make sure you
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don't get really bad nasty infections
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the good thing is that windows 11 and
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windows 10 are a lot more secure
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nowadays and basically they do block a
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lot more malware viruses trojans and
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ransomware and all the other types of
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infections that you can
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get when you're using the internet it
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just takes one simple click and you
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could be infected that's how easy it is
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and you cannot stop that from happening
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another thing i hear people say is that
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antivirus programs
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will hinder pc's performance and slow
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down the computer that might have been
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the case back in 1980s and 1990s but not
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so much in 2021
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now norton had a really bad reputation
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just like mcafee for slowing down your
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computer i use norton today and it's a
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lot more better you can see here we
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don't have
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are the any system resources being used
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on the system but yet people will still
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say that norton's junk and it basically
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slows up your computer that just goes to
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show you they've got their head stuck in
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the past then they just don't look
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forward to the future a good thing about
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an antivirus program is it blocks
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malware when you plug in your usb flash
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drive if there was a piece of malware on
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there and you plugged it in you can see
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automatically wants to scan that drive
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and stop it from infecting your computer
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so it's really important that you use an
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antivirus program
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another thing i see is when people say
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that formatting your hard drive will
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remove all the data on that drive this
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is another common misconception where
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people when they go to sell a pc they
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will format their drive and basically
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sell that pc but people with a bit of
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knowledge can use data recovery software
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to pull back all the data on that drive
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that was using the quick format method
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now i've got a usb flash drive here if i
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did a full format on this drive by
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taking the quick format out of the
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equation here it will be really really
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slow and basically erase all the data on
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that drive and it will be virtually
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impossible to pull back any data by
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using data recovery software
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so it's important that you use the right
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method to securely erase any sort of
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drives or ssds when you come to selling
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your computer i have a strict policy
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where i will never buy used hard drives
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because you just never know what has
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been put on those drives and it's now in
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your possession i just don't like the
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fault of what could be actually on there
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now some of the best data recovery
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software out there can actually pull
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back data which has been deleted a year
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ago it really is that simple to recover
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data on a hard drive as long as the
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drive hasn't been securely erased or had
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a really slow format on that drive even
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if you format the driver quickly and
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reinstall windows you can still pull
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back all of that data it's very simple
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but using that slow format method and
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using an advanced scan here you'll see
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that it doesn't recover any data on this
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usb flash drive and i just wanted to
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show that to you guys because it's
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important when it comes to
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giving a drive away to someone or
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selling a a computer on ebay or
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something like that and you still leave
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the drive in there you're much more
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better at just taking the drive out and
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keeping it and selling it without a
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driving it because that way you can be
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100 sure that there's no data left on
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that drive now you can see here there's
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no information to be recovered on this
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usb flash drive and i've used it many
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many times i've had photos on here and
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everything but you can't recover
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anything and that's because the drive
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has now been zeroed and there's no
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information to be recovered using this
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method there's still possibility of
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recovering data
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if you send it to a data recovery
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specialist using hardware recovery
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techniques rather than software like
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this but you will not be able to recover
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data like this using software and this
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is one of the best data recovery
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software out there now there's other
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more secure erase methods that you can
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use to stop data from being recovered on
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those drives if you do want to sell
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hardware or drives on the second and
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market but just make sure that the data
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is completely erased before you sell
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them let's move on to another computer
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myth which is turning off the page file
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inside your operating system and this
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will make your computer faster i don't
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know how many videos i've seen
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on youtube or how many articles i've
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read online telling people to disable
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the page file system to make your pc
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faster this does not make your pc faster
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and in fact it's going to cause you more
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problems by turning this feature off
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windows sometimes needs to have access
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to the paging file and if it can't get
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access to it because you've turned it
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off you would end up with blue screens
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you'll end up with pop-up error codes
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run out of memory error codes and all
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these sorts of things so if it's on
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automatically manage a paging file size
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then just leave it there it's not going
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to hurt in 2021
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this was really popular back in 1980s
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and 1990s
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you know in the early 2000s where people
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like to come in here and turn this off
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another myth that people say is if
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you've got over 8 gigabytes of memory
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you can turn off the paging file
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now your pc will seem faster and it will
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basically let you turn it off and it
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will run but it will cause problems in
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the long run so when you're doing
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something like gaming you'll suddenly
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get a blue screen and you won't know
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what's caused it it's more likely
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because you've turned off your page file
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so in 2021 just leave it on let windows
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manage the paging file system and you
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won't have any problems you won't need
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to worry about it if you have a good pc
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with a good 16 gigs of ram you should be
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perfectly fine this is another bit of
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misinformation that you see on the
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internet where using incognito mode
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makes you anonymous online unfortunately
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that's not the case all it does is
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basically
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hides your browsing history and doesn't
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store any information on your browser
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that doesn't mean that you're completely
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anonymous online and your data is not
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being stored somewhere your isp will
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still know what sites you're going to so
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it's not going to be a security feature
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that's going to keep you safe if you're
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doing something online that you
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shouldn't be doing all incognito mode
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does is basically erase your history and
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cookies and your
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traces where you've been online when you
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close the browser down and you in that
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session that's all it's going to do it's
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not going to make you completely
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anonymous if you use incognito mode or
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in private mode or any of those modes
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with your browser it's just been named
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incorrectly really by saying incognito
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because people think they're invisible
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to the world and no one can see them so
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just bear that in mind when you're using
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it another thing i see people still
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talking about today in 2021 is codex i
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can't remember the last time i installed
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a code it pack on my pc which was a
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really big thing back in 1980s and
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nineteen nineties but people still talk
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about codex packs and how you need all
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of these codecs to be installed on your
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pc you simply don't need them anymore in
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twenty twenty one if you wanna install
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uh some codecs safely then use something
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like vlc media player because this will
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play just about any uh movie file or
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media file that you chuck it and you
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won't need to go ahead and risk yourself
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by downloading some moody codec pack off
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the internet there's plenty of places
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where you can download media
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codec packs
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on the internet and they are normally
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laced with malware so be very very
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careful when you download those you
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don't need them anymore so stop using
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those silly methods in 2021 these are
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just some of the things that people are
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still doing in 2021 that they should
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stop doing because they don't need to be
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doing that sort of stuff anymore with
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their computer so if you've got any more
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of these you want to see let me know in
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the comments section below and i'll make
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some more of these videos if you enjoy
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Rick
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