Computer maintenance

Computer maintenance

1. Maintining your notebook computer

   • Problems due to lack of maintenance
     • 1. Overall slowness to the system
     • 2. Program may crash and fail to open
     • 3. The computer will require restarting
   • Tools available in windows designed to optimize the performance of computers
     • 1. Configure McAfee VirusScan Enterprise correctly
     • 2. Update virus definitions
     • 3. Microsoft Windows Updates
     • 4. Discharge the battery for a laptop
     • 5. Disk cleanup
     • 6. Disk Scan
     • 7. Disk Defragmenter

2. Updating microsoft windows

   • Running Windows Updates
     • 1. Click on Start, then All Programs, and then finally the Windows Update icon at the top of the list
     • 2. Haga clic en Buscar actualizaciones. Windows buscará todas las actualizaciones disponibles para su computadora
     • 3. If new updates are found, click on Install updates
     • 4. Windows will now download and install all necessary updates for your computer. Give it some time to finish (This can take a while if there are many updates)
     • 5. After you have installed all updates, perform a Windows Update every 2 to 3 weeks to keep your system up to date and enable automatic updating

3. Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise

   • 1. upgrade
   • 2. Configure the program to avoid possible threats
     • Buffer overflow protection enable buffer overflow detection
     • Configurar reglas de protección de acceso para evitar cambios no deseados
   • 3. Detect intrusions
     • Auto Update
     • Email Scanners
     • On-Access Scanner and On-Demand Scanner
   • 4. Send alerts and quarantine threats
     • Alerts and Notifications
     • Quarantine Manager Policy

4. Maintining the Hard Drive

   • Disk Defragmenter
     • Process to defragment the disk
       • 1. To run Disk Defragmenter, click on Start I All Programs I Accessories I System Tools I Disk Defragmenter
       • 2. If your hard drive is partitioned (you have more than one drive), choose which drive you wish to defragment. In most cases, you will select C.
       • 3. Click on the Defragment disk button to begin the operation.
       • 4. When defragmenting begins it will always analyze the hard drive first and then start the defragmentation process. It is recommended run this process at least once each month.
   • Disk Cleanup
     • Click on Start and search for Disk Cleanup
     • Click start l all Programs l Accessories l system tools l Disk Cleanup

5. Maintaining the battery

   • 1. Discharge the battery – use the battery until the low battery warning emerges.
   • 2. Charge the battery – use the AC adapter until the battery is fully charged. Then immediately disconnect the AC adapter from the notebook.