Saturday, January 16, 2010

Tips on Caring for your Computer Properly


Computers are no longer be separated from our lives everyday. Office work, school work, until the latest games, all capable devoured this sophisticated device. However, sometimes there are just problems that happened with our computer. Problems that occur on your computer can not be avoided by anyone. Though computer experts has experienced problems with the computer.

Maintenance done regularly can menghidarkan of damage to our computer hardware components, system crash, or loss of important data. Computer treatment regularly will also prolong the life of our computers. Therefore, there is nothing wrong if we take care of our computers properly. If there is to love your computer, then we'll take care of computer tips below!

Tips on Caring for your Computer Properly:
  1. Clean computer components from dust regularly.
    Open your computer case! But before, make sure there is no liquid and the magnet nearby. Look, if the device was filled with dust in it? If yes, immediately wash the dust using a soft brush small / medium. Make sure that the RAM, video cards, modems, sound cards, TV tuner, fan, and motherboard your computer is clean of dust.

    Avoid laying machine from a room full of dust and exposed to direct sunlight, because it can happen overheat. Put your computer in a cool place or in air-conditioned room. Then do not forget to close the monitor, keyboard, and mouse to your computer with the cover to avoid dust..
  2. Empty the Recycle Bin on a regular basis.
    If you delete a file, the file will be deleted into the Recycle Bin first, to a time when we need this file, we can still pick it up again. However, the files in the Recycle Bin still take space from your hard disk. In addition, too many files in the Recycle Bin will make our computers become slower. Well, we emptied the Recycle Bin to free up unused space. To do this, click the "Recycle Bin -> File -> Empty Recycle Bin". We also can delete files without inserting the file to the Recycle Bin, the way he is by pressing the "Shift + Delete".

    In addition to using the Recycle Bin, you can also use the Windows built facility called Disk Cleanup. How, go to "Start -> All Programs -> Acessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup". After that, select the drive you want to clean! So we can see the total memory that can be cleaned. Check settings on the options to be deleted, then click "OK".
  3. Close unused programs.
    The more programs running, then the computer's performance will be slower. In the end, this will shorten the life of our own computers. We also can check your computer's performance by running heavy programs, then run the Task Manager and click the Performance tab, and then look at the performance of CPU Usage and PF Usage. The more heavy programs running, then the value of CPU Usage and PF Usage will further increase.
  4. Install antivirus
    Viruses are annoying, sometimes even viruses make us have to reinstall the computer. This course will take a lot of time and can even shorten the life of our hard disk. Fortunately, the virus can be overcome obstinacy with antivirus programs. Therefore, install the antivirus program is on your computer and update it with a regular program to prevent the spread of new viruses.
  5. Use a stabilizer or UPS.
    UPS serves to give us a little time when the electricity suddenly dead. so that we can immediately close the running programs, save documents and shut down your computer. If no UPS, use the stabilizer to stabilize the ups and downs of electricity. Electricity is not stable can shorten our computer age.
  6. Run screensaver.
    CRT monitors use a phosphor to display images. If the CRT monitor displays the same image for a moment, then phosphorus will light continuously. This can cause problems on the monitor, which makes the picture becomes dim / less clear. Therefore, turn on the screensaver. Others as if our computer monitors are LCD type monitor, because the LED was already equipped with energy saving, the screensaver is not really needed anymore.
  7. Do defragment.
    Defragment function is to compile the files back so that when doing the read / write, disk workload will be lighter. When running this function, there must be no programs running, because it would disrupt the defragment process, even if it was just a screensaver. Defragment also should not be done too often, because when setting the file, the file can erode the hard disk.

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