What are the ways for you to keep your computer perfectly running?
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Mainly there are two types on maintenace you need to perform. One of the posters has it correct that you need to keep your Windows patches up to date, since they usually fix security flaws. Anti-Virus software is nice to have, but if you do not download or execute unknown programs and all you do is surf the net, you truely do not need one. Defragging is good to do but you really only need to do it once a month or when you uninstall a large program of some sort.\nThe second type of maintenance is physical. Dust collects inside your computer, so peridoically you will want to open your computer and used compressed canned air to dust off your computer. DO NOT use a towel, since this will create static eletricity and that is bad. Only use canned air. Another poster said to turn off your computer when you are not using it and that is not recommended. The thing the uses the most eletricity is the monitor and all you have to do is just have that turned off when you are not using it, but you would want to keep your computer on almost at all times. The reason for this is that when you turn on your computer everytime, a jolt of eletricity goes through the motherboard and doing this on a consistent basis will wear down your computer alot and will make it more siceptible (sp) to the motherboard crashing. Keeping on the computer itself, not including the monitor, does not use that much eletricity.
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If you have Windows, do this  Start -> Run -> type in msconfig press ok\n\nIn this command go to startup and all the boxes that are checked, uncheck all the ones you DONT need when you start the PC up, all these programs run when you start the PC and take up processor power.  Just be careful, if it is a Microsoft one, or a System32 one dont uncheck it, the system needs those to run.
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Sure! Make sure any scheduled tasks use the advanced mode to bring system out of standby.\nSTART, ALL Programs, Accessories,System Tools,Scheduled Tasks - then choose:\nProperties, Settings, Wake the Computer to run this Task
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i guess this is the question everybody wants to know.\nthere are few things you need to do \n\n1) use strong antivirus, antispy ware\n2) do regular windows update\n3) don't download crap from net. if you download anything don't forget to scan it before open that file or any exe\n4) do regular disk cleanup and disk diffregment.\n5) keep only necessary software on ur system, stay away from free games to avoid spamming or adward.\n\nfollow the stapes and you might get fast performance with ur system.\n\nplease let me know if you have any further question.
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Generic Advice on How to Make your Computer Run Faster and More Efficiently\n\n\n1.Get (Download & Update) AVG Anti-Virus from Grisoft.com. (FREE).\n2.Get (Download & Update) Windows Defender from Microsoft.com (FREE).\n3.Get (Download & Update) Ad-Aware from Lavasoft.com (FREE).\n4.Get (Download & Update) Spy-bot Search and Destroy from Downloads.com (FREE). Get tutorial by Keith from pc-plususa.com (FREE).\n5.Get Belarc Advisor (FREE).\n6.Remove un-needed programs in Control Panel, Add and Remove Programs.\n7.Do a Defrag. Click on “My Computer”, right click on “C” drive, select “Properties”, click on the “Tools” tab, click on the “Defragment” button.
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Try Tune-Up Uitilites 2006. It make the computer awesome fast. It is cheap and very Effective. \nAnd Speciall it makes the start up Very fast with its Start up manger.\nDiscription: \n\nTuneUp Utilities 2006 optimizes the performance of your computer, solves problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs\nMore info at : http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/\n\ndownload here, (just put any random email id with it asks)\nhttp://www.tune-up.com/download/tu2006/
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The basic things one should do are as follows.\n\n1. Scandisk the system daily if possible or atleast once in a week.\n2.Defragmentation of the systme to be done\n3.If you are using windows version of operating system you should update windows by connecting to internet and updates to be installed.\n4. you should use anti-virus software and this software also to be updated regularly. you can choose freely available antivirus software like AVG\n5.You should also Adware software programme from net and to check the any unwanted things in the system and to delete the unnecessary files.\n6. You should also deleted temporary internet files now and then.\nTry with above guide lines and good luck to you
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Just unplug it. At least that way you'll know you won't accidentally hit the keys to turn it back on.\n\nEdit: they may not like you unplugging it but it's the safest method. Just explain that to them. Most people with a brain don't try to tell you to do something with the computer when you're the person doing the maintenance.\n\nAnd the computers can stay on, just unplug the keyboard.
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when you know you will come back to your computer in the same day then you can put it in stand by. The less you keep turning on and off your computer the better. It puts a strain on your hard drive if you do that a lot of times a day. So stand by is the best you can go.
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One important note is that many viruses or file sharing programs will cause your computer to overwork, it is important to listen to your pc, fans should come on and go off every few minutes or so. A fan that runs constantly at a high speed is a sure sign of a problem. Use task manager (ctrl,alt,delete) to check your cpu processes, sort by cpu process % use, and see which process is using the most, it should be system idle process as default, anything else you might want to end process if you know it is something you can do without. Always turn off file sharing programs when not in use, also, make SURE they are off, a lot of them will run in the background even when you exit them.
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I work on a computer every day for 8 hours and leave I never turn it off. I leave it running the whole week including weekends and only reset it sometimes. I don't believe that there is a problem with leaving it running.
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Suggestions Galore\n---------------------------\n\n1. Go to run, type msconfig and press Enter. Select the startup tab and deselect all the checkboxes expect your anti-virus.\n\n2. After some monthes of usage, your computer's regestry gets fragmented just like your hard drive. So install a Registry cleaner (e.g. Winaso Registry Optimizer). \n\n3. Go to My Computer properties, select the advanced tab. Select visual settings and uncheck as many checkboxes as possible.\n\n4. Install a hard drive cleaner (e.g. Easy Cleaner).\n\n5. Update your system memory.\n\n6. Whenever you feel the PC is running slow, open the task manager and close useless processes manually or you can install a process cleaner.\n\n7. Run a virus and spyware scan. These slow the PC down.\n\n8. Install a system Optimizer.
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several tips:\n\n-don't load any programs at startup unless you really need them (that is freeing up memory for usefull processes)\n-disable any services that you don't need. You can research them on internet to find out what they do. Many of them are not usefull for a stand alone PC.\nthere is a good utility called autoruns at sysinternals.com\n-take out wallpapers, sound schemes, special effects.\n-defrag hard drive\n\nif you want to spend some money:\n\nmore memory\nfaster and more harddrives.\n\nAnything else would require practically a new PC.
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ALL computers will begin to run slower and slower as time progresses because of a number of reasons! Viruses, spy-ware, fragmented files, accumulated programs that start up everytime you boot (you might not even know they are there), maxed out storage space, etc. The key to keeping a computer running like it did when it was new is “housekeeping”!\n\nFirst, do everything you can to clean-up your machine:\n\n1.Remove everything that is just “junk” on your machine.\n2.Make sure you are not running unnecessary programs or processes. You can double check this by running a start-up manager program. A free one is available at:\n\nhttp://www.windowsstartup.com/\n\n3.Run your anti-virus program.\n4.Run your spy-bot program.\n5.Run your ad-aware program.\n6.Defragment your hard drive. This is a really critical thing.\n\nWhen your machine is “lean and mean” like it was when it was new you may be back up to speed.\n\nIt’s kind of like a pick-up truck! You can only put just so much in the bed before it is full (or overloaded) and it will just barely move!
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Are you turning the computer OFF or STANDBY?
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Assuming you're using a PC, because I know almost nothing about Macs....\n\nSome things that will help your system run better in general, but can also potentially free up hard drive space: Regularly run anti-virus and anti-malware scans. Regularly defrag.  Regularly clean out your temporary internet files (cache, cookies, etc).\n\nOther things you can do:  Delete old programs and files that you don't need anymore. Files that you need or want to hang on to but aren't critical should be backed up somewhere off-drive - like on zip discs, cds, etc.  When you install new programs, install them with the minimal option if you're given one.  Alternatively, you can choose the expert installation, and then you can choose not to install components that you won't need.\n\nIn a pinch, you can use the good ol' three-fingered salute to call up task manager and end non-essential programs running in the background.  I strongly suggest that before you end any program in your process tree, that you look it up on the internet just to double check that you won't be making your system unstable by killing a process.\n\nAnd of course, don't forget the "well duh" - don't run so many programs at once, if you know you don't have enough memory for them.\n\nProbably, you will eventually have to buy more memory - either in the form of chips or in the form of hard drive space or both.
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in order to secure ur pc:\n\nuse:\n\nspybot search and destroy\n\nzone alarm firewall\n\nantivir presonal edition \n\nand \n\nchange ur browser to Opera or Firefox..........\n\nsearch in google for all the above softwares