For optimum per­form­ance it is vital to keep your PC clean of vir­uses and spy­ware. Using the right Inter­net Browser is also essen­tial. People are not chan­ging their PCs as much as pos­sible due to the busi­ness down­turn so it is essen­tial to keep it up to date and get as many good years out of it a s possible.

Hav­ing the right Anti Virus, Anti Spy­ware soft­ware and cor­rect Fire­wall is essen­tial to keep you PC in tip top health. Ideally you need a product that will do its job and not be too invas­ive like a lot of the major Anti Virus soft­ware pack­ages can be.

IT updates must be man­aged cor­rectly to pre­vent vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies par­tic­u­larly when you are surf­ing the inter­net. Hav­ing the right inter­net browser is essen­tial. There is a major dif­fer­ence between essen­tial IT updates and optional updates and some peri­pher­als like scan­ners and cam­eras can slow down your PC with use­less warn­ings over non essen­tial updates.

Your com­puter can con­tain 1,000’s of use­less files and it is essen­tial to keep tem­por­ary files to a min­imum in order to speed up the per­form­ance of your PC. Some of these dormant files can be poten­tially dev­ast­at­ing to your PC. it can accu­mu­late truly astound­ing amounts of digital debris, includ­ing tem­por­ary files that some­times become all too permanent.

Another aspect to good PC health care is ensur­ing that only your import­ant pro­grams are opened at Start-up  Unfor­tu­nately all soft­ware pro­grams think they are the bees knees and you must have imme­di­ate access to them — this is rarely the case and the major down­side is that they can slow down your PC dramatically.

A major hard-drive cleanup often res­ults in frag­ment­a­tion — files and pieces of files scattered across the hard drive that can waste drive space. Defrag­ment­ing can improve drive per­form­ance on all spinning-platter drives, but it’s not needed (or wanted) on solid-state drives.

Your com­puter depends on the Registry and it is vital that this data­base file is main­tained correctly.

For more details please con­tact me — E-Mail: info@brendanmoran.ie