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Summary P4, D1
- Institution
- PEARSON (PEARSON)
DISTINCTION EARNED IN ALL SUBJECTS
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Unit 25 maintaining computer systems P4 and D1. Performing routine maintenance.The main purpose of performing routine maintenance on a computer is to keep the machine
running at its optimum performance level and to avoid any problems with the slowing down
of the machine or it being infected by any viruses or malware. These routine checks and
scans can be Disk clean-ups of unwanted files, Disk defragmentation, Virus and spyware
scans, start-up performance checks and checking for new driver updates . All of these tasks
are important to keep the computer running at its optimum performance level and to
ensure that the users information is kept safe and secure the virus scanning is particularly
important in this case to make sure that the computer is not infected. Viruses can have a
serious impact on a computer performance and can considerably slow down a system by
using the computers resources secretly in the background without the user knowing and
also stealing their data.
Cleaning of temporary files and unwanted registry files I use ccleaner this is a free program
although they do offer a paid version which has more features.
This is a very easy to use program once you have ticked all the options that you require
down the left-hand side just hit the run cleaner button and it cleans all the areas required.
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