How to Properly Maintain Your Personal Computer

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Lurichia Venter AC1110224 EN130 English Composition II Assignment 4_04 11/06/2012 How to Properly Maintain your Personal Computer. Is your computer running slowly? Does it take a long time for Windows Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to open? Do you get frustrated when your computer takes forever to boot up? If you answered yes to these questions, the following sections are just for you. Your computer has an expiration date, just like all other electronics have one. If you want to postpone this date of your computer, there are a few simple steps that can be followed to help you maintain the lifespan of your personal computer. Hard drive/Software: The first step in maintaining your hard drive is to defragment it monthly. When you use the Disk Defragmenter on your computer, this program rearranges the files on a drive to create contiguous blocks of free space. Having more space on your hard drive makes it run faster and smoother. To find the Disk Defragmenter go to Start, click Computer, right click the Local Disk (C:), click Properties, in the Properties dialog box, click Defragment now, and then follow the instructions. Second step is to remove all viruses and/or spyware. Having a virus on your PC can corrupt your data and it slows down the computer’s CPU (Central Processing Unit). Spyware is dangerous. Hackers can collect your personal information and use it for a variety of things including identity theft. You can purchase anti-virus/anti-spyware software on the web and install it on your PC. ESET NOD32 and Avast Professional are two of many antivirus protection programs recommended by professionals; however, remember to never install more than one antivirus protection program on your computer. Doing so will slow down your PC tremendously and/or the two programs will collide with one another and won’t protect your computer against viruses at all. The

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