If you want to make a clean install of the new OS X Mavericks or even the older versions of Mac OS X, than I strongly suggest you to create a bootable OS X key or a drive.
You created your own movie in iMovie but you can't figure it out how to save the darn thing into a playable .mp4 file on your hard drive. I've been there, let me show you how to do that.
If you are more of a visual person and would like to organize your folders and files using different colors, than check it out how to use color labels in Mac OS X.
If you are the kind of person you want to read what has been changed before updating an app you can disable the auto app update setting. Or enable if you want updates fully automated.
If you experience an Mac OS X program to freeze and you cannot exit it by clicking quit or using a keyboard shortcut, you can always force it to quit using the Activity Monitor.
