Student Guide for Personal Computer Maintenance

Student Guide for Personal Computer Maintenance

1. Maintaining your Notebook Computer

2. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

3. Updating Microsoft Windows

4. Maintaining the Hard Drive

   • Disk Cleanup…
   • Disk Defragmenter

5. Maintaining the Battery…

6. Maintaining Your Notebook Computer

   • Notebook computers need to be maintained regularly. Lack of maintenance could lead to such problems as:
     • Overall slowness to the system
     • Program may crash and fail to open
     • The computer will require restarting

7. There are tools available in Windows designed to optimize the The performance of your laptop, as well as avoid problems in the future. There is also Software designed to protect your hard drive from viruses.

   • Configure McAfee VirusScan Enterprise correctly
   • Update virus definitions
   • Microsoft Windows Updates
   • Unload the battery for a laptop
   • disk cleaning
   • Disk scan
   • Disk Defragmenter

8. Take these actions immediately after installing the product.

   • 1. Update detection definitions. Perform an Update Now task to ensure that you have the most recent detection definitions.
   • 2. Prevent intrusions. Configure these features to prevent potential threats from
     • • Access Protection. Configure access protection rules to prevent unwanted changes to your computer and enable the option to prevent McAfee processes from being terminated.
     • • Buffer Overflow Protection. Enable buffer overflow detection.
     • 3. Detect intrusions. Configure these features to detect potential threats on your system, then notify you and take action when detections occur:
       • • Auto Update. Configure update tasks to get the most current detection definitions, scanning engine, and product upgrades.
       • • On-Access Scanner. Configure the scanner to detect and take action on potential threats as they are accessed in your environment. Enable scanning of unwanted programs. If you installed the AntiSpyware Enterprise Module, you can also scan for cookies in the cookies folder.
       • • On-Demand Scanner. Configure scan tasks to detect and take action on potential threats in your environment. Enable scanning of unwanted programs.
       • • Email Scanners. Configure the on-delivery and on-demand scanning of Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes email clients. Enable scanning of unwanted programs.

9. Updating Microsoft Windows Running Widows Updates 1. Click on Start, then All Programs, and then finally the Windows Update icon at the top of the list.

10. 2. Click on Check for Updates. Windows will now check for all available updates for your computer

11. 3. If new updates are found, click on Install updates

12. 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).

13. 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.

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