It is common knowledge that your car needs regular maintenance and cleaning, but your computer also benefits from a spring cleaning or maintenance. The computer is an input/output machine and like all other machines of the world, they need a consistent maintenance schedule to run efficiently. The computer maintenance needs to run with a two-prong approach maintaining the computer’s hardware and operating system.

I bet this person did their Spring Cleaning already, look how organized it is. I wish my wires were this organized!

“A computer doesn’t have any moving parts, there shouldn’t be any wear and tear, right?”

Wrong!

Regardless of how many wheels your computer has, the hardware inside does accrue wear and tear, especially when it is poorly maintained. The hardware maintenance is relatively easy; for example, simply keeping it in a clean and cool environment.

One of the most overlooked issues in hardware maintenance is the removal of dust that accumulates over time, this causes heating of the computer’s inner circuits, potentially causing the computer to crash. A computer exposed to the elements or in a workshop, like a wood working shop or warehouse, will need a thorough hardware maintenance schedule at short time intervals to prevent a such a crash.

Some regular cleaning could keep your PC or laptop from looking like its on life support (Like this one…)

A good habit is keeping files and folders organized, this can be done at the same time as the physical maintenance or as you use the computer, the computer’s hard drive will work better and you will have an easier time finding specific files.

Keeping this in mind, a computer’s hard drive will get cluttered over time due to daily operations/use. The hard drive is where all software and data are stored, which can be compared to an office filing cabinet. If an office filing cabinet has become cluttered with files and folders over time, then it is going to very difficult to find any files in a timely manner, or use at all.

A cluttered hard drive of a computer can seriously impact computer performance and ultimately your company’s bottom line. The operations/executions will keep taking more time run and can ultimately lead to another computer crash.

Just because your office looks like this, doesn’t mean your computer should too…

Computer & Communications Innovations in the greater Nashville TN area can easily demonstrate (remotely) how a data backup and a monthly maintenance plan can be performed on your organization with ZERO impact on daily productivity. We also provide regularly scheduled maintenance to avoid any extra clutter on your hard drive.

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