Ten Simple Computer Maintenance Tips That Will Save Your Day
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1. Never open a file you download before pass it through antivirus –
– Select the download file and right click.
– Scan virus.
2. Take care to run once week cleaning adware – better to set up a scheduler.
3. Remove adware the moment you got it – this ads and popup are bad for your computer.
– Close all running processes and browsers.
– Disconnect your PC completely from the internet.
– Scan your computer with your anti-Adware for a full scan and delete all threats, then reboot.
– Repeat these actions until your computer is free of adware.
4. Always turn on the firewall – use window XP firewall and protect your privacy from invaders, you can never know who is trying to get privet information from your computer. To those of us that are using mobile computers I will recommend to use a powerful firewall.
5. Always backup you things, better to by UPS (Standby power supply) –
Use UPS and your computer jobs will not stop when power fails.
6. Defrag your hard driver – use window XP tools or external powerful tools.
you will be surprised to know that defragging your hard driver once a month could save your hard driver from crashing.
7. Back up your files, hard driver – better to set up a scheduler.
There are varieties of back up option such as online, use an external hard driver, or just burn your important data to CD. Also back up your computer setting from time to time.
8. Clean your registry – you can use free or paid registry tools – better to set up a scheduler.
9. Remove unwanted program from start up menu – you can use registry tools that usually gives this feature.
10. Always backup your registry before you install any hardware or software – When you install something to your computer, it will make changes to the registry. Sometimes these changes can affect other parts of your computer can cause problems.
How to Backup your Registry:
– Click on "Start" and then click on "Run".
– Type in "regedit".
– A window will open – select my computer
– Click on "File" and click on "Export".
– Choose type a name of your back up and save to a backup directory.
