I know that it has been a long time since I have last posted something but with the end of the year finally here and gone, we now have some time to go start going through machines, cleaning them up, out and getting them ready for the 10-11 school year. So with that I thought I would put a post up on something that I do for those of you wondering how to keep your computer running smooth. First and important, I use a vacuum to clean out all the dust out of the computer, desktops mostly because laptops are so hard to clean up without taking the whole thing apart. But in a desktop machine I will take the case side off and clean out everything I can with a vacuum. Making sure that I unplug the power cord to keep from any shock happening. After that I will turn it on, go to the Internet Explore, and delete all the cookies, history, ect. That will help a bit with anything infecting our computers. I also run a program, Malware Anti-bytes and run a full scan to check files deep inside the computer to find such things as spyware, malware, adaware and ect. Make sure that our scanners are up to date is the most important thing to check. After that I will have our virus scanner run, here at the school we use a district wide scanner that is for education so it isn't out there for the public to use, but you could use something like AVG Free Edition(search Google for it), it is a great scanner. Also making sure to keep it up to date is the best thing to do. From there we will run Windows Update and Microsoft Update. With your computer being up to date is also very important. With them 4 simple steps you can make sure to keep your computer running smooth.
Also with knowing what websites to watch for and keep away from will help a lot. I can't name them all because I don't have that much time.
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