Paypal account: step by step process for creating a Paypal account

You might have seen lots of articles about making money online using paypal. But the fact is that Paypal is not going to help you earn any money. You can use Paypal to collect and credit your earned money into your bank accounts or into your credit cards. There are lots of websites available on internet that use paypal as a mode to make payments to their members. So it’s in your interest to have a paypal account if you don’t want to lose money making opportunities provided by these Paypal supportive websites. Paypal is going to help you even if you work as an advertiser with freelancing and get paid to blog kind of websites. In this article, I’m going to tell you step by step process for creating a paypal account

Creating a Paypal account

1. You must have a working e-mail address before you start the process of creating an account on Paypal. If you already don’t have an active e-mail address, create one today on Gmail or Yahoo Mail or wherever you prefer. By the end of this step, you must have an active e-mail address with you.
2. Go to Paypal website and Click the ‘Sign Up’ link.
3. Select your Country and account type. There are three types of accounts available on Paypal.
   • Personal account is mostly used for buying purpose. You can send and receive some limited amount of money with personal paypal account.
   • Premier account is used for buying and selling with your personal name. I would suggest you to create a Premier account if you want to send and receive money using Paypal. But you must have a credit card to activate your premier paypal account. You will be able to receive payments from credit cards with a premier account.
   • And Business accounts are useful for buying or selling using company name
   Note - We can move to a different account type anytime whenever we want by calling or e-mailing paypal help desk
   
4. After selecting the account type, fill up all required fields
5. Next still will be verifying your paypal account. We need to verify our paypal accounts in order to withdraw money from our paypal accounts. But we can receive funds into our paypal accounts even before verifying our paypal accounts. But we need to verify our paypal account before withdrawing any money from our accounts. So enter your credit card, visa card or debit card details to verify your paypal account.
6. After entering your credit card or debit card details, wait for your 4 digit activation number in your next statement. Once you get it, enter into your paypal account to complete the verification process.

Connect your bank account with Paypal

Here are some easy steps that you have to follow to link your bank account with your paypal so that you can transfer money from your paypal account to bank account:

1. Go to Paypal.com and login into your account.
2. Click My Account à Profile placed under My Account menu
3. Under Your profile click Add/Edit Bank Account
4. Fill up all required fields including your country name, Bank Name, IFSC Code (Ask your bank to provide you the IFSC Code or check your Check Book)
5. Enter your Account Number and once filled all required fields, crosscheck again and once checked click Continue and then Confirm button

This is how your bank account is connected with Paypal and will start showing your bank account as your ‘Primary’ account Status.

5 Tips to secure Gmail

Remember the last time you didn't check your mail? Or didn't use the Internet at all? Have to think really hard? 

Most of us - right from a newbie in the world of internet to an addict, from a professional to a student - spend a considerable amount of time inside our mail boxes. But few actually know the security hazards that our mail box exposes us to (if not used properly). 

Here are a few useful tips that will go a long way in saving us from the so-very common email traps and frauds.

Especially when using a public computer, be careful to sign out of your Google account when you're finished. Just click the "Sign out" link at the top right corner of your inbox. If you're using a public or shared computer and want to be extra thorough, you can also clear the browser's cache, cookies and history. Then, completely close the browser. 

On your personal computer, you can also lock your computer with a password-protected screensaver if you need to step away momentarily. Learn the best ways to lock your screen in Windows or in Mac OS X. 

Forgot to sign out? Open up a new Gmail session on another computer and use Gmail's remote sign out feature to close any sessions that might still be open elsewhere.

Once you send an email, you're no longer in control of the information it contains. The recipients, if they so choose, could forward the email or post its contents in a public place. Even if you know and trust the people you're emailing, that information may become exposed if their accounts become compromised or they get a virus on their machines. 

As a rule of thumb, should you need to provide a credit card number or financial account number to respond to a message, provide it over the phone or in person - not over email. 

Never share your password with anyone. Google does not email you to ask you for your password, your social security number, or other personal information - so don't send it!

Any time you visit a webpage, your computer needs to send and receive information across the Internet. 'https' is used to encrypt data as it is transmitted between computers on the Internet. So look for the "https" in the URL bar of your browser to indicate that the connection between your computer and Gmail's servers is encrypted. 

We use HTTPS on the Gmail login page, and you can choose to protect your entire Gmail session with HTTPS as well. HTTPS can make your mail slower, so we let you make the choice for yourself. Open Settings and choose "Always use https" on the General tab if you want to turn it on.

How to boost Windows XP performance...

Heard Microsoft is almost ready with its next operating system, one that will be free of those Vista ‘complexities’? Happy with your dear Windows XP? How about adding some power to it?
Here are some simple tips and tricks to boost up your Windows XP performance.
One of the easiest way to boost up XP's speed is defragmenting your hard drive regularly.

Defragmenting drive organises all data so that it can be read continuously. The process compiles files scattered at multiple locations on the hard drive, making it faster to retrieve files. This helps your operating system run faster and search files faster.
To defragment go to Programmes click Accessories then System Files and click System Defragmenter and Run this application. The process should be done at least once every week.

Windows XP by default indexes files on local and network drives to speed up the file search process.
However, this slows the PC performance as it indexes files continuously. But if you don't use the service regularly it is better to disable the process.
To turn off, go to Control Panel and click Administrative Tools and click Services. Now, click on the option stop Windows Index Service.


You may face trouble or delay in loading XP if you have too many fonts installed. Your Windows XP boot-up time may increase or applications that display font previews may take longer to render all the fonts.
To remove the unused fonts access Windows XP Fonts Control Panel. Click on a font to remove, or select multiple fonts and press Delete button.
The less number of fonts, the faster programmes like Office and other graphics will load.


This Windows XP utility helps free up disk space. The cleanup process involves searching and analysing the hard drive for files that are no longer of any use. It then removes the unnecessary files, freeing up disk space on the hard drive.

XP users can use Disk Cleanup to remove temporary Internet files, remove downloaded programmes files, empty the Recycle Bin, remove Windows temporary files, remove optional Windows components and remove installed programmes that are no longer in use.