Computer Maintenance

Clean up tools How I Defragmented the Hard Drive

Clean up tools Why is Defragmenting useful?

Drive Formatting Formatting a Floppy Disk Why format a Drive?

Firewall Installing a Firewall

Firewall

Why install a firewall?

Task Scheduler Scheduling a disk clean up

Task Scheduler

Why use task scheduler?

File Systems Creating a folder system

File Systems Why use a file Structure?

Copying & Deleting Files How to Copy Files Copy Paste

Copying and Deleting Files Deleting Files Delete Yes Why Copy or Delete files?

Compressing and Backing up files How to compress files Send to Zip

Compressing and Backing up files How to back up files Copy Why Compress and Backup?

Virus Protection Installing Anti-Virus software.

Virus Protection

Why use anti-virus software?

Installing a Service Pack How to install Windows XP SP 3

Installing a Service Pack Why install service packs?

Installing a Service Pack Why install service packs?

UtilityDescriptionProducts Defragmenter A Defragmentation tool will move files around on a hard drive so that the data is contiguous on the drive. This speeds up the reading of data because the data reader does not have to move as far. Windows Defragmenter Defraggler defraggler Clean-up Tool Clean-up tools look through various parts of a computer to look for unneeded files such as: Temporary internet files, internet histories, cookies, registry entries and un-used shortcuts. Windows Clean Up Tools CCleaner ccleaner System Tools

UtilityDescriptionProducts System Profiler A system profiler is a tool that can give detailed information about a computer’s hardware and software. WinAudit /WinAudit.htm Speccy speccy Compression Utility A compression utility can compress files and folders with several types of compression, such as Zip RAR and 7zip. Compression utilities can also un-compress archives. Windows Zip Compression WinRAR System Tools