Maintaining your computer properly is one
of the most important things that needs to be done to insure a computers
long and error free life. Yet, computer maintenance is often the
most neglected activity when it comes to owning a computer. There
are a few simple things that can be done to insure your computer
has a long and healthy life. The first thing that can be done takes
no computer knowledge at all. The computer needs to be kept clean
on the inside. At least once a month you should remove the side
panel and blow out the dust with dry low pressure air or canned
air. The computer should also be placed where it can receive sufficient
air flow and can avoid extreme temperatures. If it can't then auxillary
fans should be added. Those are the physical things that need to
be done. Next is the software maintenance program. To insure that
the computer will run normally we have to make sure that Spyware,
Adware and other parasites don't infiltrate your PC. Backing up
your data to a CD, DVD or other hard drive should also be done on
a regular periodic basis. You can back up your data using Windows
or other third-party utilities such as Backup E-mail, Norton Ghost
and many others. Below are a few programs, that when used on a regular
basis, will keep the computer clean and free of annoying parasites
that will tap your computers resources. The Internet is a vast place
and there is a lot of bad stuff out there that you don't want in
your computer. Regular maintenance is the key to keeping your computer
healthy.
Most importantly, keep your virus scan updated and run it once a
week.
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Before running any of these programs, please be sure to do the following
first:
1. Disable Anti-Virus Software
2. Turn off any screen savers
3. Close all programs |
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Backup E-mail - Done when needed.
If your PC suddenly
stopped working today, what information would you be most desperate
to recover?
If you're most people, it will be email messages and contact information.
We could just about get by without most of the information currently
lurking on my hard drive but without an email and address book,
you could be effectively out of business!
Of course, you can use Windows to schedule backups of all your
files, but email applications often store messages and address
books as multiple files in several different locations, making
it very difficult to piece together afterwards.
That's why were delighted to offer Backup
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utility for backing up your email messages and contact information
all to a single file and then restoring it again afterwards.
It's incredibly easy to use -- even for a technophobe like me
-- and makes moving from one PC to another (whether by choice
or by unfortunate circumstance!) a snap.
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Webroot Spysweeper Trial Version - Needs to be done every
other week.
1. Double Click on Spysweeper
Icon on Desktop.
2. Click on Check for Updates, download all if available.
3. Click on Check for Problems.
4. When Scan is Finished Click Fix Selected Problems.
5. It is all right to Delete the Problems.
6. When Problems are Fixed Close the Program.
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CCleaner
- Needs to be done once a week. This program cleans out the temporary
files from Internet use, program installations and a lot of other
stuff that accumulates from surfing the net. 1. Open program
2. Click "Run Cleaner"
3. Click "Yes" when popup tells you files will be deleted. It's
OK.
4. When finished you can exit or "Scan for Issues"
5. Click "Issues" in the toolbar on the left
6. Then click "Scan for Issues"
7. When finished click "Fix Selected Issues" (don't backup the registry
when asked, XP does this daily)
8. Exit when completed
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Spybot Search & Destroy - Needs to be done every other
week or when pop ups occur.
1. Double Click on Spybot
Icon on Desktop.
2. Click on Check for Updates, download all if available.
3. Click on Check for Problems.
4. When Scan is Finished Click Fix Selected Problems.
5. It is all right to Delete the Problems.
6. When Problems are Fixed Close the Program.
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Ad-Aware 2008 - Needs
to be done every other week or when pop ups occur.
Can be run while running Spybot.
1. Double Click on Ad-Aware Icon on Desktop.
2. Click check for updates and download them if there are any.
3. Click Next and Next again.
4. The Scan Will Start.
5. When Scan is Finished Click Next.
6. Select all Problems Found - Right click in the problem field
and choose "Select all Items" from the menu if they are not all
checked.
7. Click Next.
8. Click OK and Close Program when Ad-Aware is finished.
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Scandisk - Needs to
be done once a month.
1. Open My Computer.
2. Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment,
and then click Properties.
3. Click the Tools tab; in the Error Checking pane click Check Now.
4. Click Start.
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Defragment - Needs to
be done once a month after running scandisk.
1. Open My Computer.
2. Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment,
and then click Properties.
3. Click the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.
4. Click Defragment.
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MSI Cleanup Utility
- You can use the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility to remove Windows
Installer settings from your computer if a problem occurs. Although
Windows Installer is designed to be very robust, Windows Installer
can become damaged if any of the following issues occurs:
- Your
computer's registry becomes corrupted.
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You or someone else inadvertently changes a registry setting
that is
used by Windows Installer and that causes a problem.
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The installation of a program that uses Windows Installer
(for example, Microsoft Office 2000) is interrupted.
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There are multiple instances of Setup running at the same time,
or
an instance of Setup is "blocked."
For more info
click here.
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WinSock and TCP Repair Utility - offers a last resort if your
Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed
registry entries. It can often solve the problem of lost connections
after the removal of Adware or Spyware components or an improper
uninstall of firewall applications or other tools that modify the
XP network and Winsock settings. If you encounter connection problems
after removing network related software, Adware or after registry
clean-up; and all other ways fail, then give WinSock XP Fix a try.
It can create a registry backup of your current settings, so it
is fairly safe to use. We actually tested it on a test machine that
was having a connectivity problem due to Adware removal. After running
the utility and rebooting, we we're able to connect to the Internet.
Click here to download the
Winsock Utility |
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