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Well, all the
reader of @AptitudeAmplifier, must know the some important precautionary steps
to prevent their Computer/ PC/Laptop/any kind of technological devices from
being damaged and occur a great loss of data.
Well in today’s
world there are a 99 out of 100 chances of a technological devices to get being
attacked by Viruses, Malwares, Spywares, and many more damaging program’s which
can lead your device to malfunction. I have also being confronted to many of
the problems, but there is always a possible way to get out of the problem. There
is always some kind of effort for everyone to maintain their devices to make it
run properly. So I have brought you all a series of a list of do’s to activate
your computer to the safe side from being attacked by any foreign program. This
is a must list for all the 1337 members of World Wide Web, which each one
should follow. So it goes as follows..
The following do’s are to be done at the system start up:-
- Install a functional surge suppressor/emergency shutdown power strip to prevent any hazardous condition from occurring, like short circuit etc. A surge suppressor or protector is an appliance designed to protect all types of electrical devices from sudden voltage spikes. An Emergency Shutdown Valve or Shut down Valve, which is also known with names of ESD, or ESDV, is a valve designed to stop the flow of a hazardous fluid or external hydrocarbons (gases) upon the detection of a dangerous event.
- Be sure to, register your software products, to use it to its extent and have some useful productivity from it. Register with your real name and other required information as from it you can ask for help directly to the individual or company who developed the program.
- Schedule your system for automated updates as it can help you in stay touched with the latest updates released by a company to provide you with many useful features for software or operating system. That is the Windows Update and Antivirus Update of Virus Signature.
- Stay touched and read thoroughly the instructions for maintaining your system from given manual of the devices, media devices, and other.
- Set up your email to auto-archive older messages at a regular period of time.
- Install antivirus software to stay protected from harmful programs. For more about Antivirus click here and to know why an antivirus program is necessary for a system click here.
- Install antiadvertising software to block the fraudy ads on some websites. You can use softwares like Anti-AD Guard, Adblock Plus and many more.
Now this set of do’s are to be done weekly:-
- Run a weekly disk scan for error issues in the operating system and to check for hard drive malfunction issues. To follow the tutorial for – how to scan drives for error - click here.
- Run a defragmentation program whether be it inbuilt or an additional software. For tutorials to know how to defragment your hard drive using Windows Defragment, click here and to know why should we defragment our system, click here.
- Run a cleanup program to delete all the unneeded waste files to increase the hard disk space. For example you can use software’s like CCleaner to do this task successfully and very effenciently.
- Regularly back up your files and data to a remote location where it would be safe for data usage when required after some accidental mishap.
- Don’t forget to empty your recycle bin as the files you have deleted are of no use now.but stay alerted while deleting, recheck the bin if required to restore any file deleted mistakenly. Or you can use one more shortcut SHIFT+DEL to permanently delete the object.
- Delete your temporary Internet files weekly so that there is no junk files to make your system where lazy to run faster and work properly.
- Clear your browsing history
- Delete your cookies for the same reason for increasing the hard disk space.
- Update the virus definitions of your installed Antivirus Program.
- Run a full scan of your computer so that no harmful program can harm you system.
This list is required to be fulfilled in a monthly manner:-
- Check for updates of all the installed important programs for their upgradation and for make them work properly.
- Delete/uninstall unneeded or unused programs so that your system do not starts to lag.
This are to be done quarterly:-
- Clean your keyboard
- Clean your monitor
- Clean your peripherals
- Rebuild your desktop
- Change all your passwords of your accounts, system etc.
And yes
ofcourse yearly do renew your software and antivirus subscriptions and their
versions.
Reference:- www.lifehack.org
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