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PC maintenance is an important topic for anyone who owns a PC. Looking after your PC properly can ensure it gives you trouble-free use.

Regular PC maintenance also keeps the machine's performance optimal.

Things that will be learn in PC Maintenace course :

Backing Up

What is backing up and why should I do it?

To back-up is to make spare copies of files and store them separately to the originals.
Backing up files is a very important part of maintaining a PC and can save a lot of hassle if ever the PC has a problem.

Computers have a tendency to go wrong from time to time, these days total hard drive failure is rare but it does happen.

One of the more common problems nowadays is the threat from viruses, with some of the more serious infecting the master boot record of a hard drive's file system. If the master boot record is infected with a virus then the Fdisk utility would most likely have to be run and the chances are the data on the drive would be lost (or at least difficult to recover).

Operating system failure and bad software installation are other things that can cause problems when it comes to recovering files. How frequently you back up will depend on how often you use your PC and what you use it for.

The average home user will probably just have to back up any important files as and when they are changed and do a full back-up once a week/month (depending on PC use). When PCs are used in a home office scenario then backing up should be done more frequently.

One rule of thumb would be if your important files change daily, back-up daily, if they change weekly, back-up weekly, and so on.

Back-up Software Packages

There are many back-up software packages available, they are reasonably priced (compared to a lot of software) and can be invaluable if you have very important files. One of the advantages is that most back-up software makes it simple to back up whole drives including operating system files with a few clicks. This means if the worst happened you could have your PC system up and running again within minutes.

There are more things to be considered when you want to know how to take care of your computer.

Hardware Upgrades and how to do it

Part of PC maintenance is upgrading your hardware and how to do it.

You will understand the hardware components inside a computer, what they are called how to identify them and how to remove and insert a new one for exapmle RAM, Graphic Cards. Modems etc.

Or how to completely replace a Motherbord.

CPU and What it does

What is a processor and what does it do?

The processor (often called the CPU) is the brain of your PC and is where the majority of the work is performed. As its name suggests a processor processes something, that something is data, this data is made up of 0's and 1's (zeroes and ones). To understand a processor we first need to take a quick look at the way digital systems function, all of the work that goes on inside your PC is carried out by the means of voltage, or more accurately the difference in two voltages.