Computer maintenance to keep your PC healthy

Computer maintenance to keep your PC healthy

Author: John Matthews

Computer maintenance is an important job that should be followed regularly to keep you PC performance like brand new. So let's look at the key rule that should be followed for Computer maintenance. So lets' follow some PC etiquettes:

Most of us has common practice to take our hand to the power button or restart button of the system to shut down it. But this is absolutely wrong. So before making shutdown you need to close all the windows.

Never, never, turn your computer off with the power switch until Windows has shut down. However you may some time find your PC locks or hard drive not in function so at that time there is no option. It will avoid any hard drive crash and Windows problems.

Don't give direct power from the cable, since the voltage may fluctuate at any time and these may create sometimes problems. So its suggested to connect an UPS ( Uninterrupted power supply) for your system
The UPS prevent sudden data lost avoid any disaster.

Keep taking backup of your system on external hard drive, Zip disks or CD-Rws etc. It will support you in case of any hard disk failure.
For Computer maintenance it is highly recommended to use system utility application such as Scandisk and Defragmenter on a regular basis. This will retain the hard disk capacity for longer time and prevent any hard disk crash in future. Separate software are also available in the market like Norton Utilities that can take care of your hard disk.

Unplugging of the peripheral devices such as speaker or camcorder etc should not be done when it is powered on. It may lead to short out of the connector socket or the motherboard. Using this etiquette will help in Computer maintenance.

Its recommended to always maintain free space on your C: for Computer maintenance. It will help in the comfortable functioning of the Operating System. About 400-600 MBs free space should be kept
For Computer maintenance its necessary that you don't keep undesirable programs in your start-up menu. Some time you may find some unnecessary programs jumping with the Startup. These Start up programs can be managed according to need. If you don't need any programs then you have the option to get it disable from the Control Panel of the System. This is pretty simple to do. Go to the Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs and then scroll through the list and highlight those application which you don't require and then click on "Remove" option.
This action will minimize the system load, during startup and will save the system resource and will help in Computer maintenance. Hence your system speed will be enhanced.
For Computer maintenance it is required to keep updated software of Anti - Virus, Anti - Spyware and Anti - Malware programs on your system. Your Firewall should be enabled.


John Matthews is a Technical support Executive working for iYogi, a leading IT support company of India, iYogi provides computer technical support , via phone and remote access for home and small business users globally. for more information http://www.iyogi.co.uk/computer-optimization.html & http://www.iyogi.co.uk/computer-repair.html

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