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Basic Computer Maintenance

Basic Computer Maintenance Clean and Cool Deleting Temporary Files Scandisk Backup Your Data How to run scandisk? Click on Start-Programs-Accessories- System Tools-Scandisk. Click on Start-Run. In the Run field type scandisk, press OK or press the Enter key. There are two ways:

Basic Computer Maintenance Defragment your Hard Drive What is Defragmentation? When you create and delete files and applications on your computer the hard drive will become fragmented. Data is split into chunks and stored in different areas of the hard disk. frees up disk space and speeds up your computer.

Basic Computer Maintenance How To Defrag Your Harddrive?

How to Defrag Your Harddrive Stop using your computer while you are defragmenting the drive. Stop all programs running including your screen saver. Run this program overnight NOTE:

How to Defrag Your Harddrive Windows 95/98/98SE/Millennium Click on the Start button, then move to the Programs, select Accessories, then System Tool s, and then click on the Disk Defragmenter Select the drive you wish to defragment (usually Drive c), click OK, and then click Yes. Wait for the defragmentation tool to finish (this may take a long time).

Windows 2000/XP Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories then System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. Click the drive you want to defragment, click the Defragment button and then wait for the defragmentation tool to finish (this may take a long time). How to Defrag Your Harddrive

Basic Computer Maintenance Hard Disk Error Checking Virus Checker Uninstall Software Clean Out Your Recycle Bin Emptying the Recycle Bin Emptying Your Deleted Operating System Reinstall

General Computer Tips The Golden Rule: When all else fails, REBOOT. Ctrl+Alt+Del (all at the same time). A Close Program or Task Manager dialog box will appear. Select the task you want to end (or the ones that say they are "not responding") and select End Task. If this doesn’t work you can reboot the machine, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del twice in succession.

Unknown s Unknown File Downloads Incompatible Hardware and Software Random Deletion of Files General Computer Tips

Windows Update Starting Windows Update MS Windows XP / 2000 

Computer Viruses What is a virus? a computer program designed to replicate and spread on its own, preferably without a user’s knowledge How do viruses spread? Computer viruses spread whenever infected diskettes or files are exchanged. Exchanging computer disks or viewing attachments.

How can you protect yourself from viruses? Computer Viruses Have an Antivirus program installed on your computer Regularly scan the computer for viruses (at least once a week). Keep your virus definition files,up to date (at least once a month, more times if possible).

Computer Viruses Keep updated in regards to the latest security patches for your operating systems and applications Do not open attachments that are from people you don’t know

FDISK How do I utilize FDISK? The program that DOS supplies for setting up hard disk partitions is called FDISK, which is believed to? stand for "fixed disk", an older term for hard disk. FDISK is used only for DOS (FAT) partitioning, and allows the user to perform the following functions:hard diskFDISK Create Partitions Set Active Partition Delete Partitions Display Partition Information

FDISK With just a few keystrokes, FDISK can wipe out part or all of your hard disk don't use FDISK unless you need it

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 1. If you're in Windows, open a DOS window. 2. From the C:\ prompt, type "FDISK" and press ENTER. 3. If you're changing the partitions on an existing disk, choose option 4 from the FDISK menu to display existing partition information.

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 4. If all of the space on the drive is already partitioned, you will need to use FDISK menu option ( 3 ) to remove existing partitions before creating new ones. 5. For a new drive from which you will boot your PC, you must first create a Primary DOS Partition.

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 6.If you only want to have one partition on the drive, type Y when prompted to make one large partition. If making multiple partitions, type N. 7.Enter the size for the partition if you selected N in step 6. 8.To create an extended (non-bootable) DOS partition, choose option 1 from the main FDISK menu, then option 2 from the Create menu.

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 9.Press enter to use all remaining available space for the partition. 10.Create logical drives on the extended partition by entering the desired size(s) in MB or percent of disk space. 11.Continue until all available space is assigned to logical drives.

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 12.If you will be booting from this disk, choose option 2 from the FDISK Menu and enter 1 to make the primary DOS partition ACTIVE. 13.Press the ESC key to exit FDISK. If running from Windows 9x, you must manually reboot your PC at this point. You must format all partitions before they can be used.

Partition Tips 1.If you are using a 16 bit OS (Windows 3.x or DOS), do not use the maximum available size for your Primary DOS Partition on a drive larger than 2GB 2.Make a good backup of all of the data on the drive. FDISK will destroy all existing data on the drive. 3.There are utilities (e.g., Partition Magic) that can re-partition existing drives without destroying data or minimizing data loss.

Format NOTE: In some earlier versions of DOS, the drive designation letter was optional. If you are using one of these versions, you can format a diskette or a FIXED DISK if you enter FORMAT while working in that drive.

Format Commands /?Shows all format command Example : A:\>format /?

Basic Computer Maintenance