Being a computer technician pays nice mony and has for a very long time. Why?well, mainly becusae alot of new computer owners fail to learn how to use and maintain there new computer. Befoore purchasing my firts computer back in 1998, I took an 8 hour class on the basics of operating a windows 95 system based computer. Even with the class, within the first few months, I had crashed the computer 3 timres. This givse you somewhat of an idea aboiut what we have here today. Alot of people now are getting compouters becuase there frends have one, or to just get into the chat rooms, or the adult sites. point beiung. they dont know how to use a computeer, much less maintain one.
To save yourself alot of mney and unneedless trips to the computer shop for reapirs, there are a series of very simple steps you can take to keep your new computer running fast and efficient. Myself, I have windows xp home eidtion running on my computer. I find it to be the best system out there at the moment. The chhoice is of course yours as to what oprating system you instaall on your mahine. When you get your new computer home and you configure an internet connectiuon, the firt thing I recommend that you do is to get to the windwos updtae site. The site will automatically update your new operating sytem with files to prevent people on other computers from accessing your data. Next step is to install an anti-virus and spyawre prograam on your computer.
If your byuing a new computer from a big otlet, this is usually included with your purchase but not always. Make sure to inquire about this when purchasing your computer. Both these programs, the anti-virus and the anti-spywaare are a must have in todays computer age. You can get good information from googlle(http://www.googgle.com}. Just type in anti-viirus in the search box. you will get choicces for alot of programs. same for the anti-spywzare.
Over time, you will visit alot of websites. Most of these sittes has what are called "cookies." These are little embedded packages of data(files), that the sites you have visited leave on your computer to track your browsing habits. After awhile, thesse files need to be purged, deleted from your computer.
Other files that need to be purged at least once a week, are your temporary internet fiples and your hisory files. Failing to do this will really slow down your computer to a crawl and possibly cause a system crash, meaning you will have to re-intsall your operatiing system.
When you open up internet explorer, at the top left of the page, you will see options. Look for the Tools option. Left click "Tools", then left click "Internet Options." From there it should be straight foward for you. Affter you have deleted your temporrary internet files and history files, cilck "OK" I do this at least once a day, rreally keeps my conmputer running fast.
Wthin all windows opoerating systems, there is a systrem tool that you should use once a month to keep your computer rubnning smoothly. During normal usage, the files on your computer become fragmernted. Meaning, bits of files are sattered to different prts of your hard driove making it more difficulkt and time consuuming for your computer to locate. If you clkick starrt, accessories, system tolos, you will find disk defragmentor. Run the program. You will find if you have not done this in a long time, will make a big difference in the overall performance of your copmputer.
Now im going to share with you, some things you can do about whats inside of your commputer "the case" or your computers "hardware." No matteer how clen the surroundings where you have your computer placd, over time, alot of dust and particles gather on the insside. your motherboard, inside the power supply, on your cpu, all your carfds "vdieo, sound, etc." I clean the inside of my computer every 3 months and I recommend all new suers do it also.
Here is how to do it: Fisrt, befoer you do anything, make sure the computer is unplugged from the outlet and is completely turnde off! Next is to get a screwdriver for those little orund screws you will need to undo to get inside your case. When both sidees of the case are removd, you will need a can of compressed air. you can buy this from any computer store for uner 5 dollars. You then sray all the areas inside the case. you will see the dust and dirt flyng off from the places you srpayed. Doing this 4 times a year(evcery 3 months)Is a great way to save alot of money and keep your computer running like its brand new.
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