Welcome to
One Stop PC Maintenance!
Here, at One Stop PC Maintenance, the aim is to help you in keeping your Windows Computer fit and healthy and serving you how it should. Your computer is your best friend when it's working how it should, and your worst enemy when it's not. Keeping it clean and virus free is top priority if you want to have a good relationship with it.
Our detailed guides will take you through the steps required to keep your Windows Computer happy and figthing fit.
Covering operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 8, Anti-Virus to DO's AND DON'Ts, One Stop PC Maintenance is the only place to look.
The Importance of Computer Maintenance.
Not many people enjoy doing computer maintenance, but still it needs to be done. Taking care of the basics on your computer is essential if you want your machine to run smoothly and live a long and healthy life. Whether you’re a computer expert or technologically challenged, there are certain tasks that you still need to do in order to have a good relationship with your Windows computer and keep your computer running at top speed for several years.
Most people realize that they need to download and maintain anti-virus and anti-spyware software on their computers, BUT, there are also people that don't. This is an important computer maintenance activity that saves computer users a lot of extra time and energy by keeping their computers infection-free. Though anti-virus tools used to be the default infection prevention software required to maintain a healthy computer, anti-spyware has become even more important over the years and more and more computer owners are downloading it to their machines.
For Windows computers, it is essential that you do a registry cleanup on a regular basis to keep your computer functioning properly. If you own a Windows machine, you’ll find that it is important to download and keep registry cleanup tools on your computer for regular use. The Windows registry simply needs to be cleaned from time to time in order to function properly, and if you fail to do this task on a regular basis, I would recommend at least once a week, your computer will suffer for it. A thorough registry cleanup can help you keep your computer from running slowly and create more harmony in your relationship with your computer.
There are other important maintenance activities that you should also do with your PC. Update your programs and remove any applications that you don’t need or don’t want. This will help keep your computer speedy. Remove temporary files and files that you no longer need on your computer as well. This will help give your computer a bit more space to work with which usually means that the computer will speed up and work faster.
If you haven’t already done a scan for malware and spyware, take some time to find a malware and spyware scanner (you can find links to these programs later on), and see if you can detect any of these programs running in the background on your computer. Some of these programs can be hard to detect, so running the scanner can bring to light any programs that are running covertly in the background. If you detect something that’s installed on your computer that shouldn’t be, then you can go ahead and download and install software to remove it.
Computer maintenance does not have to be difficult or time consuming. On the contrary, spending a little bit of time doing preventative maintenance-type activities can save you a lot of time and energy in the long run by keeping your computer healthy and running smoothly and protecting it from viruses, malware, and spyware that can be difficult to remove and cause your computer to run slowly.
Ignore these tasks and you could end up with a very expensive repair bill, lose of important information, pictures ect.
Ignore these tasks and your computer is nothing more than an expensive door wedge.
