hardware. Hardware and software needs to maintain in order to work properly. Hardware and software are working together to make functions of computer. If one of these gets fails, the computer will not work at any time and it may face many failure issues. So, hardware and software maintenance is important to increase the performance of computer as well as to avoid failures.
I recommend performing hardware and software maintenance every 2 months if the computer use every day.
If the hardware and software maintenance is not followed, the computer will face a risk of that will break down a card or any other components of PC. The processing speed will be slow. Mainly it will get problem on the internet because internet is a place where any kind of virus can infect to the computer if the antivirus software is not maintained.
If the hardware and software maintenance followed, it can detect failures, it will increase the life time of components of computer, it will reduce repairs of computer and will increase overall performances of computer.
Following are needed to perform in order to do software maintenance for
computer.
Disk defragmenter
Disk cleanup
Disk check
Cleaning the registry
Backup
Antivirus software checkups Disk defragmenter
Disk Fragmentation will make hard disk to work efficiently and it will increase the speed of computer. The main job of disk defragmenter is rearranging fragmented data for given hard drive or USB flash drive. By doing disk fragmentation, hard disks and drives will work more efficiently than current status. You also can set schedule to do disk defragmentation as well as can do manually.
Advantages of Disk defragmenter
Computer programs will run faster and more efficiently when the disk defragmentation followed.
Disk defragmenter will make your unarranged files as arranged files. So, the components of drive no need to travel in a long distance to check or find data.
When antivirus scans your hard drive, it will take less time because the hard drive has fragmented by Disk defragmenter.
This protects the hard drive from overworking itself because the files are sorted so the hard drive doesn’t need to work as more hard to read necessary files.
Guideline to do Disk defragmenter
Option 1
Select “Start” menu Double click on “All Programs” Click on “Accessories” Click on “System tools” Click on “Disk Defragmenter” Select your hard drive which you want to check Click on “Defragment disk” When defragmentation is finished click on “Close”
Option 2
Select “Start” menu Click on “Computer” Right click you hard drive which you want to check Click on “Properties” Click on “Tools” tab Click on the “Defragment now”
When defragmentation is finished click on “Close”
To automate defragmentation
Select “Start” menu Double click on “All Programs” Click on “Accessories” Click on “System tools” Click on “Disk Defragmenter” Click on “Configure schedule” Set “frequency” Set “day” Set “time” Select disk that you want to check Click on “Ok”
I recommend to do automate defragmentation which done automatically because it's easy to forget to do it manually and automate defragmentation can maintain forever.
Disk cleanup
The Disk Cleanup utility is a tool which removing temporary files and unnecessary files from your hard drive to free up disk space and it will help your computer to run fast. Following are check and clean by Disk cleanup:
Temporary Internet Files: which allow web pages to load more quickly
Downloaded Program Files: It’s location for programs downloaded
Recycle Bin: Files that have been marked as deleted
Temporary Files: The files which are TEMP format
Web client/publisher temporary files.
Compress old files.
Catalog files for the content indexer. Advantages of Disk cleanup
Saving time because when we find and delete all files (Temporary files, downloaded program files, recycle bin and etc.) manually, It will take more time but Disk Cleanup does it in less time.
Increases the amount of free space on your hard drive by compressing files which have not used in your computer.
Increasing the reliability of your computer because Disk cleanup removing the unwanted programs, unwanted files and temporary files.
Guideline to do Disk cleanup
Option 1
Select “Start” menu Double click on “All Programs” Click on “Accessories” Click on “System tools” Click on “Disk cleanup” Select drive that you want to cleanup Click on “Ok” Then Disk cleanup will calculate the free space on your computer and after the calculation is complete,you will be a see a dialog box,in that confirm that only the following check boxes are checked: downloaded program files, temporary internet files, recycle bin and temporary files Click on “OK” Finally, you will see a dialog box that prompts you: Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files? Click on “Delete Files” Disk cleanup will delete the files and close automatically.
Option 2
Select “Start” menu Click on “Computer” Right click you hard drive which you want to check Click on “Properties” Click on “General” tab Click on the “Disk Cleanup Select drive that you want to cleanup Click on “Ok” Then Disk cleanup will calculate the free space on your computer and after the calculation is complete, you will be a see a dialog box, in that confirm that only the following check boxes are checked: downloaded program files, temporary internet files, recycle bin and temporary files Click on “OK” Finally, you will see a dialog box that prompts you: Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files? Click on “Delete Files” Disk cleanup will delete the files and close automatically.
Disk check
Disk check will remove the system errors, bad sectors from your hard drive to free up disk space and it will help your computer to run fast.
Advantages of Disk check
Disk check will remove the errors files from your hard drive.
Increasing the free amount of hard drive because it’s removing errors.
The computer failures will be less. Guideline to do Disk check
Select “Start” menu Click on “Computer” Right click you hard drive which you want to check Click on “Properties” Click on “Tools” tab Click on the “Check now” under Error-checking You will be getting a window which saying disk check options Select both options Click on “Start” button When the scan is complete you will be getting a results (This process will happen if the selected hard disk is not in use) Click on “Ok”
If the selected hard disk is in use following will be changes
After clicking “Start” button Then click on the Schedule disk check Restart your computer At the first (before loading splash screen), you will be getting page which checking your hard drive When the scan is complete you will see a report Computer welcome page will be load.
Cleaning the registry
When you install application software, it will be automatically registered in the computer. If the application software was uninstalled it doesn’t mean that completely removed because the registry remains on the computer and it should be always maintain the existences of application software whatever you installed.
I recommend using Your Uninstaller 2010 because it will remove the existence application from registry in less time.
Advantages of cleaning the registry
Registry files can be cleaned manually
Saver Removal Of Malicious And Old Registry Entries
Registry cleaners also have a schedule. So, you do not need to think about registry maintenance.
Increase the efficiency of the computer by cleaning the unwanted files from the registry
Backup
Backup is storing copies of your files on your hard disk. The reason of making backups is to protect against the files.
Advantages of Backup
Can protect data of hard drives for a long time.
It enhances the security of data. Guideline to do backup
(Relevant guidelines are recorded and it’s been provided in the CD. The name of the folder is “Task 4.1”)
Antivirus software checkups
Antivirus software is used to safeguard a computer from spyware, malware, including viruses that coming from internet, computer worms, and Trojans.
Advantages of antivirus software
Protection from Viruses
Maintain the computer's Security
Protect Data and Files
Protect Against Email Threats/Spam
Protect from spyware and malware Guideline to do antivirus software
(Relevant guidelines are recorded and it’s been provided in the CD. The name of the folder is “Task 4.1”)