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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
Firewall
Why install a firewall?
Task Scheduler
Scheduling a disk clean up
Task Scheduler
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
Virus Protection
Virus Protection
Why use anti-virus software?
Installing a Service PackHow to install Windows
XP SP 3
Installing a Service Pack
Why install service
packs?
Installing a Service Pack
Why install service packs?
Utility Description Products
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<Included with Windows>
Defraggler<http://www.piriform.com/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<Included with Windows>
CCleaner<http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner>
System Tools
Utility Description Products
System Profiler A system profiler is a tool that can give detailed information about a computer’s hardware and software.
WinAudit<http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm>
Speccy<http://www.piriform.com/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<Included with Windows>
WinRAR<http://www.rarlab.com>
System Tools
