Computer Maintenance

All computers slow down gradually as time goes on. A lifespan of an average computer is about 4 years. After that everything starts to go wrong.

• Viruses start to delete important files due to anti virus software not being available for your computer model as it is out dates.
• Dirt inside and around the computer box starts to overheat the major hardware and therefore slows down the performance of computer.
• Useless files start to build up...Unused programs. Data with reference to files and programs that arnt there anymore e.g. file shortcuts.

All of these things will lower the life of your computer. But what can you do, you don't know anything about how to fix computers. Microsoft has prepared for people that dont know how to use computer and have given to you as a present, with your operations system a cleanup program, a disk defragment program.
You should make using this programs a regular part of your daily or weekly cleanup...When you are going away from the computer for a few minutes run the disk defrag and disk cleanup, when you run them for the first time in a while it will take slightly longer than usual...but if you are using them daily or weekly it shouldnt take more than 10 minutes.
This could extend the life of your computer by years. It would also pay to get an anti virus program and get it to run a weekly scan. At the bottom of this page i've shown you how to install AVG, on the same page i have discribed how to set up a regular scan. See my notes and do the same on your system.