Update virus protection
it's important to frequently up date your antivirus software. Cause you computer might get viruses. however you can avoid it by updating it every week or so. although most viruses come on your computer when you are on the Internet. these are some of the antivirus softwares that people most often use.
- Norton anti-virus
- Kaspersky anti-virus
- Bitdefender anti-virus
- Panda anti-virus
- The shield deluxe anti-virus
- CA anti-virus
- McAfee virus scan
Scan scheduling
Most anti-viruses provide a feature which automatically scan the computer by the date and time that's been picked by the user. it's usually for people who don't know how to use an antivirus software or for people who forget or are lazy and cant be asked to do it manually and prefer automatically.
Operating systems update
It's important to frequently update your Operating system as you do for anti-virus software The updates for you Operating system includes bugs fixes, security and it includes other features. Operating system improves anti-viruses and spyware to make it more harder for viruses to get on the computer.
Clean up tools
Clean up utility is a tool that can be used to remove unused files and folders, you can access it by using window installer clean up utility you can remove the programs unintall so that you can start the instillation. Defragmental is a tool which will put you files in order it's good to run the program one's a week.
Drive formatting
Formatting tool are used to totally wipe the data from the hard drive. This is often used when on the the operating system windows. there are two ways of formatting a quick formatting and normal formatting. The quick format deletes the index but you can for example a program back by using a special program. The normal format will basically delete every thing and it be irretrievable.
Firewall
fire wall is application which controls network traffic to and from a computer. It blocks people from trying to hack in to your computer and corrupting the files. It's a security base application which will protect your computer from outside traffic. you can download a private firewall when using the Internet.
Creating folders
Most operating systems such as windows implement files system to organise files, windows keep files grouped up in folders also known as directory. so that you can add folders and also sub folders which are folders that contain in other folders. Theses things are useful so that you can keep things tidy and you would find things faster.
Copying and deleting folders
In windows there's a file system function which are called copy and delete. By using the copy function you can copy folder and files to make an exact duplicate. You do this by pasting the folder or file you copied at the location that you desire. By using the function delete you can delete folders and files from the hard drive, the benefit of this is that it gives more space for the hardrive. so that you can put more folder and files
compression and backup
using compression tool allows you to reduce the size of a file and folder, this is particular useful to to transfer data on a device that has unlimited space.
