Computer Maintenance

Computer Maintenance

1. 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. The procedure above insures both maximum performance and long life for the battery run this process at least once each month.

2. Disk Defragmenter

   • Disk Defragmenter is used to organize files on the hard disk and Optimize free space, improving computer speed and performance
     • 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.

3. Maintaining your Notebook Computer

   • Problems due to lack of maintenance
     • 1. Overall slowness to the system
     • 2. Program may crash and fail to open
     • 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
     • 7. Disk Defragmenter
     • 6. Disk Scan

4. 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

5. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

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

6. Maintaining the Hard Drive

   • Disk Cleanup
     • Click Start I All Programs I Accessories I System Tools I Disk Cleanup
     • Click on Start and search for Disk Cleanup
     • Select
       • Temporary Internet Files, recycle Bin, temporary files Click OK