Computer Maintenance 101

Here is another series of computer geeky information that may be useful for you and for the average user.

Computers may seem so efficient and intelligent machines even though they are not. Computers are like knives, they eventually get dull after some time of use - evetually your computer will get slower than it was the first time you used it.

The reason behind this is that the computer does not know how to maintain itself and relies on you to organize your files and applications. Everything else is set to default for your convinience.

To be specific, for example, when you install an application, several registry changes are made to allow the application to work. These registry keys will then crowd your entire registry and render your computer slower and less functional without the proper maintenance. Proper maintenance is deleting these registry values after the application has been uninstalled.

Now, it is not always wise to tamper with the registry values if you don't have advanced knowledge of what you will do. For these instances, there are several registry cleaning tools / software / utilities which you can try to query on google, install and use to maintain your computer.

Another faction is automatic generation of files. Besides the settings files computer applications use to keep track of itself, most applications also create temporary files, and resource files, or profiles, which you will have to maintain yourself.

This however, may be out of scope for most of the computer maintenance utilities you will find. So in order to maintain your application generated files you will have to venture into some advanced knowledge of files sytem and backup.

The biggest adversary to maintaining your computer is the internet and web browsers.

Web browser applications keep track of the worst number of cache for you to clean. This is the main reason you are not advised to install more than one browser in your computer, as maintaining one is hard enough, what more mainting four browsers at once?

Even these utilities cannot detect all the browser history with accuracy. The user just wouldn't know when thier visited pages will haunt them again.

The easiest way to maintain your history and cache is to always use the cleanup option that comes with every web browser, and then double check it with a maintenance utility software. Lastly, if you have technical knowledge of maintaining your files, and knows how and where to find history and cache files, tripple check by deleting them yourself.