Computer Maintenance

Clean up tools

How I Defragmented the Hard Drive

Clean up tools

Why is Defragmenting useful?

Drive Formatting

Formatting a Floppy Disk

Why format a Drive?

Firewall

Installing a Firewall

Firewall

Firewall

Why install a firewall?

Task Scheduler

Scheduling a disk clean up

Task Scheduler

Task Scheduler

Why use task scheduler?

File Systems

Creating a folder system

File Systems

Why use a file Structure?

Copying & Deleting Files

How to Copy Files

Copy

Paste

Copying and Deleting Files

Deleting Files

Delete

Yes

Why Copy or Delete files?

Compressing and Backing up files

How to compress files

Send to Zip

Compressing and Backing up files

How to back up files

Copy

Why Compress and Backup?

Virus Protection

Installing Anti-Virus software.

Virus Protection

Virus Protection

Virus Protection

Why use anti-virus software?

Installing a Service PackHow to install Windows

XP SP 3

Installing a Service Pack

Why install service

packs?

Installing a Service Pack

Why install service packs?

Utility Description Products

Defragmenter A Defragmentation tool will move files around on a hard drive so that the data is contiguous on the drive. This speeds up the reading of data because the data reader does not have to move as far.

Windows Defragmenter<Included with Windows>

Defraggler<http://www.piriform.com/defraggler>

Clean-up Tool Clean-up tools look through various parts of a computer to look for unneeded files such as: Temporary internet files, internet histories, cookies, registry entries and un-used shortcuts.

Windows Clean Up Tools<Included with Windows>

CCleaner<http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner>

System Tools

Utility Description Products

System Profiler A system profiler is a tool that can give detailed information about a computer’s hardware and software.

WinAudit<http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm>

Speccy<http://www.piriform.com/speccy>

Compression Utility A compression utility can compress files and folders with several types of compression, such as Zip RAR and 7zip. Compression utilities can also un-compress archives.

Windows Zip Compression<Included with Windows>

WinRAR<http://www.rarlab.com>

System Tools