There are various ways to clean and optimize a computer today. Different types of scanners with different results are available and just right at your fingertips. Defragmenting, registry cleaning and scanning, overall computer scans, anti-malware scans. How often should you do that? Before doing anything, we should first take a look at each of these kinds of computer optimizers to know what they do and determine how often we should do it to the computer. You might just discover some facts about each of them that will help you on how to maintain your computer.
Defragmenting Computer
Defragmenting computer is the process of identifying noncontiguous data fragments into which the computer files may be divided as it is kept on a hard disc and then rearranging those fragments and restoring them into lesser fragments or into a whole file. Defragmentation lessens data accessing time for the computer and also allows free hard disk space available for storage. Defragmenting is advantageous to computer systems is it optimizes the hard disk and makes way for a faster accessing time of the file systems. The most advisable schedule for defragmenting the hard drive is about twice or once in a month.
Registry Scan and Fix
As we all know, the Windows registry keeps on growing the longer we use the computer and the older it gets. The size of it will never shrink all by itself and as time goes by, the computer’s performance will be noticeably slower compared to how it is before. Clusters of files and entries in the Windows registry are one of the most important factors that could drag your computer’s speed and performance to a slow. In view of this, it is recommended to clean and scan the registry of debris for the computer to refresh itself and be fast in no time. However, cleaning and scanning the registry does not need to be every day. Normally, scanning and fixing the registry per month at the least and twice a month at the most is advisable. If you notice some slow speed and system errors, do a registry scan and it will often solve the issue.
Anti-Virus Scan and Malware Scan
Almost all the computer users are relying on their anti0-virus scanners to do the job of scanning the computer for virus all the time. But, just how often should the anti-virus scanning be? Since viruses can enter the computer inconspicuously, virus scanners are very necessary in every computer systems. Viruses can infect a computer in less than a minute and damage the system drastically. So this scanner is much needed for computer’s health. A schedule of everyday scan for a computer might be too much for some users so it is advisable to schedule a full computer scan for viruses twice or once a week to thoroughly check all computer files. Some malwares may also enter a computer just like a virus do and may damage a computer with effects greater than that of a virus. Anti-virus and other anti-malware scans are best scheduled twice to once a month and best turned on to check devices inserted to the computer.
