December 7th, 2009 |

Now a days computer system is become an important part of our lives, you can use it for official work, entertainment, education, online sales & purchase, online payments, as an security equipment and many more purposes. Like other electric appliances and instruments a computer system also need special care and maintenance. Generally, computers are specifically designed for certain weather conditions, and they may not work properly in extreme weather conditions. Few countries like Pakistan have four different seasons therefore computer users must have basic knowledge to maintain temperature for optimum performance of their computer system.

In addition to above, many other important things computer users should be keep in their mind for getting best performance from computer system. Here are some important tips for maintenance of all type of computer systems.

FIVE GREAT COMPUTER MAINTENANCE TIPS

1. USE OF STABILIZER / UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY (UPS)

If you are living in Pakistan, you may observe that due to energy crises and load-shading (breakage in electric supply) computer systems, powered off many times in a day. Such type of sudden power outage becomes the major cause of severe damage to computers; computer power supply, its hard disk, and motherboard are the major components that may completely damage during sudden electric failure or fluctuation. For the protection and smooth running of important computer components it is recommended to use stabilizer or UPS permanently with your computer system.

2. BACK UP DATA OFTEN

Professional computer users periodically keep back of their important files on external hard disk, CD, DVD or any other external data storage device. You may also observe that in most of the cases operating system (i.e. Windows) installed in “C” drive and whenever problem occurred in windows of computer system, you have to format that specific drive for new installation. Therefore, you must keep backup of all important files you already have in “C” drive.

3. UPDATE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM AND ANTIVIRUS REGULARLY

It is the one of the best technique to protect your system from viruses or windows crash. You can update operating system and antivirus of your computer by running patch files or connecting your system to the internet and choosing update option on respective websites.

4. PERIODIC COMPUTER SCAN WITH BEST ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Nowadays, the biggest threat to our computers is viruses, sometimes they are very harmful not only for your important data but also cause for your computer’s hard disk failure. On the internet there are hundreds of antivirus programs available, you just need to choose well reputed and updated version of antivirus for your computer system. Most of the computer professionals are using AVG, Norton, Avira, Kaspersky or some other anti viruses. Once you installed your selected antivirus in your computer, you must scan your computer regularly and update periodically your antivirus for protection of your computer from latest viruses.

5. DEFRAGMENTATION OF HARD DRIVE

Defragmentation is the build-in feature in almost all computers operating system, it's basic purpose is to re organize the data in hard drive of your computer. You may observe when things are scattered all over the place in your cabinet you have to spend some extra time to find required things, same is the case with computer when computer user save and delete data several times, data in their computer becomes scattered all over the hard drive. That data need to be re-organized, so computer user must apply this feature after some time for computer's smooth and fast processing.