Regular PC Maintenance Not Negotiable for Serious Online Users
                     Regular PC Maintenance Not 
Negotiable for Serious Online Users
Yash Kumar
Writes for search-marketing.in, 
provides information on 
Digital marketing in india to improve 
Digital marketing strategies.
In today’s Internet environment regular online users are prone to many malware 
and hacking threats. As the phrase goes “Prevention is better than cure,” 
spending some time daily for PC maintenance helps them prevent the PC from 
getting infected with malware. This step is not negotiable for all PCs even if they 
are configured on costly Operating System and application software or built on 
cost-effective options. This helps you avoid a lot of time and energy wastage on 
resolving the issues after the PC is infected or hacked.
The regular maintenance tasks are not complicated or time consuming. They are 
as simple as follows:
Regular Antivirus Scan and Update
Antivirus should be updated everyday. All genuine antivirus companies release 
new virus definitions everyday to update the database of the existing antivirus 
and equip it with identity of any new threats online.
Scanning PC is next important step in PC maintenance. It is always 
recommended to scan the PC after updating the antivirus as it will then be 
equipped with the latest version of databases and thus increasing the potential of 
the scan.
Checking for Software Updates
Software we use in PCs like Operating System, Browsers, Email clients, etc are 
made of millions of lines of programming code. Errors are inevitably made, 
while typing out such big number of lines, thus making the software vulnerable 
for any hacker attack. In order to repair these errors, the companies release 
updates/patches regularly for their products. Thus, it is important to keep track of 
the updates of all the software in your PC and keep it updated.
Running disk cleanup
While working on PC, there will be many temporary files and unnecessary 
utilities, programs and applications that get generated. These files include Temp 
files, downloaded program files, temporary internet explorer files, files in recycle 
bin, etc., As you keep using your PC, these files increase in number and keep 
consuming more and more of its disk space, thus decreasing its performance. In 
order to avoid this you should run disk cleanup atleast once a week. In Windows 
OS you can find this option by following this path
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