You Can Prevent Computer Slowdowns & Issues

Most people understand preventive maintenance as changing the oil in your car will help your car run better and last longer. The same principle applies to your PC. Based on the repair of equipment we do on computers in Cincinnati, we believe that 80% of delays and problems can be avoided! The purpose of this article is to help you understand how to prevent delays and other problems. Top 10 ways to prevent the decline team are they? 1. Make sure your anti-virus software is installed, automatically check for updates and automatically scan all files. If a virus is associated with a new file will be repaired or quarantined. New viruses appear each day. For this reason, anti-virus software must be configured to automatically update itself. Norton and McAfee are the most popular antivirus software, and what we recommend. 2. Run anti-spyware / anti-adware software. Spyware and adware are in the hands of the most common cause of computer delays. This software is essential if you browse the Internet. Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware is the most common anti-spyware/adware free packages. We recommend a more proactive approach that packages proactively Spy Sweeper, which scans your system and costs less than $ 30 A combination of Spy Sweeper and Ad-aware offers a very good coverage today. 3. Installing a hardware firewall to keep hackers. Hackers have automated tools that are on the lookout for any PC connected to the Internet without a firewall. To give you an idea at the time of this writing, my PC was scanned 158 times in the last 24 hours. This means that explored an average of 9 minutes each. If you are connected to the Internet, but do not have a firewall, hackers (criminals) will be on your PC. In addition to steal your information as you can install programs May damage or slow PC. A hardware firewall to protect all the computers on your LAN offers the best protection. Hardware firewalls are Linksys, NETGEAR and D-Link. Hardware firewalls are easier to establish and maintain a firewall. Software firewall, but it is not recommended because they are complex to maintain and often leads to misunderstandings and other problems. 4. Microsoft Windows is in constant decline updates for your operating system. Most of these updates are repairing security holes in its software. You want to configure the computer automatically check for and download critical updates when they become available. 5. Delete temporary Internet files monthly. This will keep the system clean and allowing it to run faster. 6. Defragment your hard drive every quarter. This is not the problem, but there are benefits to defraging hard disk on a regular basis. 7. Read the terms before signing or download some free on the Internet. Free downloads such as Kazaa (music), games, toolbars, coupons and often with adware or spyware. The terms and conditions explain adware downloads can be installed on your computer from people in exchange for free software, music, pizza or something like that. Of course, some people reading these words. 8. Do not open e-mail from strangers. Do not open attachments from people you know if you do not expect. Call the person that sent it. If not, do not open it. E-mail unknown and unexpected attachments May contain adware or spyware waiting to be installed on your computer. WO probably not install if you do not open e-mail or attachments. (Note: If you use e-mail software with a preview pane of Microsoft Outlook e-mail, mail preview is the same as the opening. You must disable this feature. Unlock preview pane in the display the list in Outlook.) 9 Use the Firefox browser www.mozilla.org. It is safer and less vulnerable to pop-ups, viruses, slow computer, etc. It also has other category, and other options are not available with other browsers. 10. We talked about preventive maintenance, but problems still occur. Hard drives fail. The computers are stolen, etc. Because of these risks, it is important to safeguard their data on a regular basis. The best backups are stored off site. This can be done with an Internet service or store data on a CD and take it to another location on a regular basis. In short, a guarantee of regular preventive maintenance will keep your computer better. We recommend you do these things yourself, or a computer to perform a dynamic professional and ensure that these measures are preventive maintenance in the workplace and on a monthly basis. This will avoid delays and computer problems! John Danielle Sverdfisk Biter and equipment Computer Solutions to help people prevent delays computer and resolving hardware problems. They do this through the provision of IT outsourcing http://www.SwordfishCS.com equipment, including network services, repair, training, website development and design in Cincinnati, Ohio. John can be reached http://www.SwordfishCS.com http://www.SwordfishCS.com.