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Top 10 PC Maintenance Tasks That You Need To Remember Introduction Keep Operating System and Other Software Updated Keep Drive and Windows File System Healthy Back Up Data Regularly Uninstall Old Unused Programs Clean Up Your Equipment Keep Drivers Up To Date Run Full Virus Scan Regularly Empty Recycle Bin Data Regularly Power Down Your Laptop Before Moving it Around, and At Night. Defragment and Check Your Hard Drive For Errors Regularly Conclusion Thank you Introduction Keeping PC maintained is important to make the Windows PC running smoothly. But it is quite difficult as many of us make mistakes and these mistakes result in hardware damage, loss of data, security breaks and general system instability. So to avoid these mistakes here we cover the lists of PC maintenance you need to do. Follow the top 10 PC maintenance tasks that you need to remember. Follow Top 10 PC Maintenance Tasks: 1. Keep Operating System and Other Software Updated This is the most important ways to maintain your PC and needed not to be forgotten. It is important to keep Windows Operating system and other software updated. Your PC is at risk if you are an outdated version of Windows, Firefox or susceptive version of Java. So be sure to keep your software updated, to do this manually check for updated or set it automatically install updates or, at least, inform you of them. 2. Keep Drive and Windows File System Healthy Is your PC older than you need to give your hard drive a periodic checkup? This is necessary to maintain your PC as newer. Windows had the utility that can run from the command line or user interface that verify the disk for errors and attempt to repair them. This utility inspects all the important system files on PC, including DLL files. So know how to run it. Launch the Command Prompt as administrator and type: sfc /scannow and press Enter. After that, system scanning starts and delivers the report. This will take time as per the size of your drive and hardware. 3. Back Up Data Regularly This is also necessary to maintain your PC. Backup your data is important and this helps to avoid losing precious files, photos, videos and many others valuable stuff. Follow the three steps to back up your important stuff: Have local backup of important files on an external drive. Backup your important files to a cloud service like OneDrive or Dropbox. A full system off-site backup using a service like Crashplan or Backblaze. 4. Uninstall Old Unused Programs This is good habit and this makes the PC work freely. Uninstall the old programs or unused program programs and applications. To do so follow the steps given below: Then double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon Select the unused program and click on the Remove button. Click on Start, point to Settings, and select Control Panel This will remove the unused programs easily without making use of any third party software. 5. Clean Up Your Equipment The old model desktop computers collect lots of dust internally and this also makes the PC run slow and make your CPU overheat. You make use of the gas duster to blow out the dust, unplug the power cord before taking off the case cover it up. Make sure not to point the canned air too close at internal parts as it can make some of them come loose. If you are using laptop then this also gather dust, modern laptops are not meant to come apart easily but you need to clean it too. To do so first take the screw out of the bottom and unplug the power and remove the battery first and get at the internal parts with canned air. Since if you are not sure then it is recommended check the service manual or manufacture’s site for instructions or else consults a tech professional to clean it or if you are suspect it’s overheating. 6. Keep Drivers Up To Date This is most important that every windows user need to remember. This is healthy and makes your PC works optimally. So try to keep your hardware drivers updated you can manually check it from the manufacturer’s website for the compatible drivers. Update your graphic drivers, NVIDIA, AMD; Update your hardware drivers with Windows update you can set it to automatically download and install the latest. 7. Run Full Virus Scan Regularly It is healthy and important to fully scan your PC regularly finds out the virus and malware that infiltrates into your PC and damage the PC internally. Update your graphic drivers, NVIDIA, AMD; Update your hardware drivers with Windows Update you can set it to automatically download and install the latest for you. Make use of anti-malware software for the thorough protection. 8. Empty Recycle Bin Data Regularly By default Microsoft Windows all versions use up to 10% of computer available disk space to save most recently deleted files. This is because it allows users to recover the files that have been accidentally deleted. So to get more space empty recycle bin or permanently deleted files from hard drive that are not needed it future. To do so, right-click the Recycle Bin icon and select Empty Recycle Bin from the drop-down menu. This will free up space and even optimize the performance of the PC. 9. Power Down Your Laptop Before Moving it Around, and At Night. It is important because this leads corruption and heavy loss. Below see some points to know why it is to power off your laptop. To avoid long boot-up times, you can also put your computer into Sleep, Standby or Hibernate modes. Hard drive store data and is a series of spinning discs with a read/write head and transporting or moving laptop while powered on can cause corruption to the hard drive Keeping laptop on for whole night shorten the life of the hardware. So when not in use shut down your computer or put it into sleep or hibernate to extend the life of your hardware. 10. Defragment and Check Your Hard Drive For Errors Regularly This is the last but not the least, to maintain the integrity of your data there are two hard drive tests that user should run at least once a month. The first one is to Defragment your hard drive and secondly is to perform Check Disk utility. Windows have a built-in utility Defragmenter and Check Disk Utility. To defragment your hard drive opens up the Properties Windows and select Tools. After that click on “Defragment Now,” This process must be scheduled as an automatic task once a week. It will noticeably make the system faster. Secondly to perform Check disk utility, verify hard drive volumes for problems and attempts to repair them. To run the check disk utility go to the Error-checking section and press the Check now Button Scan Your PC With The Professional Recommended Software: You can scan your PC with the one and only PC Repair Tool, this is a repair utility that help to fix the Windows operating system from damages caused by viruses, malware, spyware and many others. This makes the PC error free and fixes the problem of crashing, freezing, blue screen errors and many more. It also optimizes the performance of the PC/laptop and enhances the speed of the PC, and application installed. This not only fixes the errors but also keeps an eye on how PC hardware is running and detects the hardware problem so that the user can get them repaired. 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