You like your home to be clean and tidy and everything is where it should be, household running smoothly, everyone has a clean shirt etc.
Keep your home this way takes a bit of regular housework, dusting, vacuuming or sweeping, washing, cleaning and so on.
If you want your PC to run well you will need to do similar tasks.
- Regular Antivirus scans with up to date software.
- Malware and spyware removal with up to date software
- Disk defragmentation
- Disk cleanup
- Driver updates.
- Make sure system restore is running
One of the most important things is (Here it comes, you've been expecting this one) is a back up!
And yes - I heard the collective groan.
The times I've heard Will I loose all my pictures? or some version of that.
Back up of data is imperative. Disks are not infallible, but unlikely to all go down at the same time. But you know all of this, you have been told this time and again.
What is also as important is a system image. Windows can do this without additional software.
You spend ages installing all your software, putting all the serial numbers away in that safe place (I always think of the room of requirement when he hides the Potions book, because "Safe Place" I can never remember exactly where it is!!)
And then Microsoft gets involved and gives you updates, some minor, some major, and that is when it starts becoming a problem. Minimise the problem by performing the housekeeping.
If you have a system image there is a very good chance that your system can be restored to its former glory with little fuss if a system has a backup.
I hate it when I have to return a system to a client with just a bare copy of Windows 10 and their data. Obviously I put AVs and stuff on as well, but it does not look the same as it did and nothing is where they left it.
If you would like some help or recommendations please contact me. My advice costs nothing, a system rebuild is so much more expensive in many ways.
Have a good weekend all.
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