We try to be helpful. Even if the only answer is save often you can never have too many save files.
Turn off the autosaves they have a large % chance of causing lag, corupted saves, and long load times.
Also never use the continue button. It tends to be broken. Always load from the load screen.
Welcome to the forums. good luck.
Speak for yourself, I don't try to be helpful I just am, there is no try...

I disagree with everyone on the auto-saves. Keeping it on and living with the freezes and small chance of infinite loading screen or one of the three slots corrupting is a small price to pay to make sure you doubt have to repeat hours of progress because you forgot to save. Keep the autosave on and make a fresh manual before taking a new quest.
Other advice, bookmark this page: http://uesp.net/ - you'll definitely need it. Also keep this forum bookmarked, there's some great guys here with a lot of experience and the way we see it we have to help each other because Bethesda sure as hell aren't going to help us.