Preventive Maintenance For Your Computer

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Some preventive measures to perform on a PC are as follows.:

  1. Clean the case, keeping the case clean ventilation ports and don't blow dust into the ventilation supply.
  2. Maintain your mouse, when the scroll bar on the mouse gets dirty, open it up and clean the scroll bar and the mouse will work again. Remove all the sticky dust and grime from the bar and you should be good.
  3. Keep the keyboard clean from dust and food particles, also keep grease of the keys, this will make the keys stick together and you will not be able to type correctly.
  4. Clean the monitor from particles and keep the ventilation clean from dust. Make sure all buttons aren't sticky so that the monitor can be turned on, and make sure the VGA cable pins aren't bent up.
  5. Keep your DVD and Media drives clean from dust, and buy a CD cleaning kit for your PC to keep dust out of the DVD and CDR drives. This will help the PC to play movies and save data correct.

Some of the best ways to protect yourself from hackers and other malicious is too.

  1. Watch what you download this can cause damage to your hard drive.
  2. Use open source software, this will save you from virus attacks.
  3. Watch the websites that you access and set your website access limits high so that you will not access a site that will give you a virus.
  4. Buy a virus protection instead of downloading one, most virus protections online are fake made by a hacker.
  5. Use Microsoft Malicious tool removal software to protect your PC from malicious attacks.
  6. Use a maitence plan on a weekly basis, cleaning pc hard drive, running ssytem scans for viruses, updating the PC regularly, and keep all software updated and your system will run great.

Created on March 17, 2014


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