Do you own a personal computer or working with computers? Most probably you are finding a way to maintain those important machines in our life. This article is for you, pay attention so that you get much benefit out of this article.
Most of the organizations have IT support service where employees from other fields are supported with their computers by IT staffs which led to smooth running of the organization. In case of absence of IT support service as witnessed in some small organizations, computers are used to death and disposed approximately earlier than those computer with good maintenance.
Therefore, how do we maintain computer? Here we have broke down 5 important practices which when practiced can improve the functionality of your computer and even prolong its lifespan.
1. Keep your computer up to date.
Why is it recommended to keep your computer up to date? Simply software companies provide updates to their software’s periodically. There are several updates available depending on the software’s. So some are bug fixes, efficiency, addition of some more features such as security and many more. Black hat hackers are busy updating their viruses to be in a position harm or steal your information. Therefore you have to keep in touch with the updates at least once a month for your system so that your system is secured more in line with hacker activities.
2. Don’t over use your computer
Give it some break to cool it down after long use. Don’t install heavy program which is beyond its strength instead if you must use that program, go for high quality computers with good processing power and memory capacity. And avoid some gaming software’s which requires a lot of memory resources to run. If you have realized, while playing heavy games in your PC, the computer over heat because of processing and memory resource it uses which will be killing your computer slowly.
3. Install good antivirus
I know of many people around who don’t like to spend money buying antivirus software’s especially University students. But if you are windows 10 user, you may have some relief depending on how many users have access to your computer other than you as it comes with windows defender which plays vital role protecting your computer as long as you keep it up to date. But in case of any other user having access to the same PC, it is recommended to purchase a good anti-virus software because many user means visiting many sites which might end up harming your computer.
4. Clean up unnecessary files and programs
Because you may be a user but not IT expert, your role is to use the computer until it crushes at one point and you end up rushing to the repair workshops. Don’t let your computer crush which might be costly. Instead play some role to keep your computer healthy. As we have said earlier, you are a user and your role is to work with computer but not maintenance. But small tasks such as uninstalling unnecessary programs and clearing junk files is everyone’s skill. So do your part to keep your computer efficient.
5. Dust your computer with air compressor
Dust is the biggest enemy to your computers motherboard. In the case of desk tops. Some users hide their CPU down below the table to save working space on the table. But you are just taking computer closer to dust. Leave your CPU on the table not below the table and clean up the inner components of your computer at least once a month using. Furthermore don’t concentrate blowing time on specific point on the motherboard. Blow it generally and once all the dust are cleaned up, stop blowing further and assemble your computer back. In case of inconvenience, seek hardware expert’s advice.
There you go. You have long life computer with all the aforementioned practice fully practiced.
Do you thing of any other way to extend the life and functionality of a computer? leave your comment below. thank you.
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