Computer Maintenance Tips


This computer maintenance tips are well worth the time you spend with them. It's like cleaning and organizing your home. When everything is stored in the right place, and are cleaning up all the garbage and clutter, it is much nicer to be there, and much easier place in which to work and play.
These are maintenance tasks that I think are most important:
General advice for the maintenance of computers:
• Keep all your work files in a folder. The My Documents folder of Windows specifically for this purpose. The benefits of keeping all your files in one place a lot. One of them, you know that all the files, and two, it is easy to support all of them at one, three, and the computer faster.
• Do not put personal files in the root of drive C:. If you store may also be a large number of files in the root file table is damaged disk, which can lead to. "Missing NTLDR" error message when you start your computer is very bad. If you have personal files on drive C: We now turn to the My Documents folder.
• Uninstall unused programs. But not only to remove the program. Remove the right way so that Windows will fail. Go to Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Find the program you want to remove from the list, and click the Remove button.
• If you downloaded the zip file and expand it, and delete the original zip file when finished.
• Save the device drivers of your purchase and installation of software files from the hard drive. Flash drive works great for this purpose.
• If you are not using one hand to get a good surge protector and connect your computer and peripherals in it. If you live in an area with bad thunderstorms, unplug the computer and peripherals during the storm.
• computer security practice. We do not accept software or downloads that you did not ask. Delete any suspicious e-mails without opening them. Even if the email came from his best friend, do not open e-mail attachments with the extensions in the following: ..... *. EXE, COM, VBS, bats, MDB, Reg, and JS.




Tips to keep the computers are programmed:
Tips daily maintenance equipment
• Update anti-virus and anti spyware definitions, if not done automatically.
• Back up important files that have changed today to the flash drive.
Weekly computer maintenance tips:
• Make sure you updated the antivirus software and antispyware software with the latest definitions and run a full scan of both programs.
• Restart the computer. (If you turn off your computer every night, ignore this advice). If you leave your computer on all the time, this certainly did. RAM is reset, and the team perform better and faster.
Monthly computer maintenance tips:
• Clean the temporary files and temporary Internet files and other junk files once a month. To do so easily, you can download the software of choice for cleaning, CCleaner. Make sure that you have the latest Windows updates installed. Go to Internet Explorer, Tools, Windows Update. Click the Customize button. (I always use the Customize button so that I can see what is to be installed before installing). Had been lifted from Windows asks you to download and install the latest version of the same. Go ahead and do it, and then click Close when finished, then click Continue. Then re-examined for the updates, and real people. Select updates to install. Disable the installation is not desirable.
• Clean your e-mail, with special attention to your inbox, and square. The easiest way I've found is to sort your mail box the size of the message, and delete e-mails that are not necessary the largest first.


Quarterly computer maintenance tips:
• Change your passwords. (Yes, I know this is a pain, I hear you moan. But it's really a good idea to do this).
• If you have a mouse with a roller ball (not optical) to solve the problem. The use of Q-party and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. Remove any soaked in oil, grease and dust that may have accumulated.
• find out if it was necessary to defragment the hard drive of your computer. To do so in the operating system Windows XP, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. Run a preliminary analysis by clicking on the Scan button. Go do something else while it runs. Windows will tell you if he does not need to be defragmented. Otherwise, click on the indivisible, and again go do something else while the computer does not do this.
Windows Vista, computer maintenance this board is a little different: Go to Start, All Programs, click Accessories. Search System Tools, Disk Defragmenter and click on it. Vista asked permission to continue. Click Continue. Vista does not give you the ability to choose to defragment, it is assumed simply that you want, and have a timetable for doing so. You can continue with the proposed timetable, or to modify. To start the process of retail on the spot, click Defragment Now. Then asked to lead to fragmentation. Off units that do not want to defragment, and then click OK.
• Make sure all cables from the system and make sure it is plugged in tight, being pinched or pulled in a non-harmful.
• Verification of drive C: (HDD) of disk errors. Note: Please make sure that you have a current backup copy of files before you run a disk check. (Also, do so immediately if you see a message stating that Windows "Volume dirty").
To run the CD manually check the drive C:, do the following:
1. Click Start, select Run.
2. In the box type cmd and click OK. In the window frame color black, type: CHKDSK C: / F (F / automatically corrects errors found.
3. Go to Start, stop and restart the computer. When you restart the computer automatically run CHKDSK. The verification process may take more than an hour's drive, and planning for this so when you have something else not related to the computer to do. To restart your computer, you will see a window that shows the progress made in the disk check. When you are finished, you will start back to the normal version of Windows.
Evacuation provided below. Open the computer case may void the warranty, and are exposed to possible electric shock. Please be careful.
6 months of maintenance computer tips:
• Go to patrol in the dust. First, turn off and unplug your computer from the electrical outlet. Strike the keyboard with compressed air can, and then turned around and played with his hand several times to shake any other garbage. Brush the dust from the fan of your computer (and any other party in the back of the computer). On the other hand, open the computer case and blow gently or vacuum all the dust out there, especially around the chip and the CPU (a large square on the motherboard).
Be sure to put pressure on something metal to ground yourself before opening the case and to get there. So that it can set out the lowest fixed ruin a computer chip. This step is especially important if you live in a dusty place like Wyoming.

Annual maintenance computer tips:
• see if you have the latest device drivers download for your monitor, printer and other peripherals.
I hope these tips will help computer maintenance computer run better and faster.