How to maintain Personal Computer?

There are lots of ways on how to maintain the personal computer. Maintaining your personal computer would make your system perform faster and process faster on your data. Most of us don’t want to maintain our personal computer because we don’t know how to do it. Now, you don’t have to worry because I will be giving you some basic steps on how to maintain your personal computer. This only applies to Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.



One way to maintain your personal computer and the most important thing to do to make your system go faster in processing files is to clean up your disk. Not literally the hard disk but the inside of your disk. You need to clean up the temporary files and other non useful files. Here is how to do it.



1. Click Start, then go to All Programs, then go to Accessories, then System Tools.

2. Select and click Disk Cleanup.

3. Select the Hard Drive where your Operating System is installed to cleanup. Most likely, it is on Drive C which is the default drive.

4. Place a check on all boxes on which items to cleanup.

5. Then Click OK to proceed with the cleanup.



This cleanup process would normally takes a lot of time to clean depending on how big is your temporary files on your system. After cleaning up your disk with those temporary files, we need to defrag the files on your system. Fragmented files makes your system go slow that’s why we need to defrag it. Here is how to do it:



1. Click Start, then go to All Programs, then go to Accessories, then System Tools.

2. Select and click Disk Defragmenter.

3. Select the drive to defrag and click on defrag.



This process will really take a long time depending on how many fragmented files you have. You don’t have to worry because we are maintaing your personal computer to boost up its performace. The faster the better. Why not trying now?