PENNY MACCHECK REQUEST UPDATE

If you pay someone $15/hour, the lost time from a slow startup will exceed the cost of a new computer in about 100 work days-say six months at most.

You could limp along spending 10-15 minutes each morning waiting for your computer to get up to speed.If you don’t know what that last sentence means, this will not help you and the time it would take you to learn might be better spent by skipping to step five below. Maybe a quick re-imaging of the hard drive gets you back to peak performance. Processes get hung up, and maybe you need a restart or two. After a year or two of this, start-up times are noticeably slower.

PENNY MACCHECK REQUEST UPDATE

Each update makes another change, and starts slowing things down. Ever see that little pop-up about Adobe Reader? Yes, they are talking to you.

Some of your software is trying desperately to update whether your hardware has or not.

You can minimize these through some maintenance, but how much maintenance do you want to put in to a $350 desktop?

Computers, especially Windows-based computers, inherit errors and problems over time.

It’s time to retire computers and save our organizations some money. Perhaps someone even upgraded the memory at some point, hoping to squeeze some more years out of that machine, but the actual costs of keeping an old machine, rather than replacing it on a schedule, should shock any nonprofit manager into getting a three-year depreciation schedule for a computer, and sticking to it. Perhaps the software is newer, because TechSoup does get pretty close to free on some of the more common things like Windows and Office. The price of new computer hardware is remarkably inexpensive these days, but the cost is not zero, and as long as the old machine still turns on, many nonprofits continue running some pretty old hardware. A penny earned by spending a dime, however, is a 900 percent loss. After all, a penny saved is a penny earned. Nonprofit organizations are experts at squeezing every last bit of value out of an asset.

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