RAYMARINE Announces a 3 YEAR WARRANTY !!! 

New for 2011.  Any Raymarine product purchased will be eligible for the 3 year warranty at no additional cost; users simply need to register their new products online at Raymarine.com and the standard two year warranty is automatically extended by an additional 12 months free of charge!

To qualify you must register online within the first 90 days of ownership.

Registration is fast and easy and can be completed in just a few minutes time at: http://www.raymarine.com/warranty

If you have any questions regarding the extended warranty coverage just give us a call.

As we move into the year 2011, check out some tech tips to help you speed up your computer - and become a little more tech savvy.

Speed up your PC
First off, your home computer may be suffering from the ever-so-common slowness syndrome. Before you take it the shop, there are a few things you can try to make it run a little faster.

1) Clean out your temp files. These are files that are used for a short period for various programs on your computer, but are no longer needed. Microsoft Windows makes this a relatively easy task. Here's how to do it:

a. Close any other programs running on your computer, including Web browsers.
b. Click on either "Computer" (Vista, Win7) or "My Computer" (XP and older versions)
c. Your system drive is most likely your "C" drive. Right mouse click it and select "properties."
d. While under the "general" tab, select the "Disk Cleanup" button in the lower half of the window. It will likely take several minutes for your computer to determine how many files can be safely erased.
e. Check the boxes for the items you want to delete. Unless you're using your recycle bin as a storage bin (note: you don't want to do this), it should be fine to check most of the boxes here. However, you probably don't want to check "compress old files" or "catalog files for the Content Indexer" options, if they appear for you.
f. Click OK. This process may take several minutes.

2) Defragment your hard drive. This process usually takes a long time, but typically increases the speed on your system - especially if you haven't defragged in a while. What this does is recombine files that were split up on the hard drive so that the computer doesn't have to search multiple areas of the drive when calling up those files. Here's how to do it:

a. Close any other programs running on your computer, including Web browsers. Also, temporarily disable any screensavers you might have running - as this can cause the defrag process to start over.
b. Click on either "Computer" (Vista, Win7) or "My Computer" (XP and older versions)
c. Your system drive is most likely your "C" drive. Right mouse click it and select "properties."
d. Click on the "Tools" menu tab and select the "Defrag Now" button.
e. You can click the "Analyze" button to see how defragmented the files are on your system first, or simply click "Defragment."
f. While this is running, try to refrain from doing any other activity on the system, as it may start the process over.

3) Many virus scan programs use a lot of system resources - even just to run in the background. This can drastically slow your system to a crawl. There are lighter, free options - but one that many people overlook is the one provided for free from Microsoft. It's called Microsoft Security Essentials and it's offered through the "optional" list on your Windows Update installer. Even if you've paid for a virus scan, this may be worth trying. Check out more details about it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

AVG is another good alternative for antivirus protection.  We have used AVG on all of our computers for the last three years.  AVG is excellent and is easy on system resources, and perhaps best of all it can be downloaded free here:  http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage

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