PC Maintenance: What Tasks When?
Ruption18 asked the Answer Line forum what regular chores will keep his PC healthy.
Back in December, I recommended ways to remind yourself to do regular PC maintenance tasks. But I neglected to discuss the actual tasks.
Here they are:
Daily: Backup your data. You don’t want to lose yesterday’s work anymore than you want to lose last week’s, so your documents, pictures, and application data should be backed up daily. For details, see 7 Backup Strategies for Your Data, Multimedia, and System Files, and consider one of the first three strategies.
Weekly: Scan for malware. Your real-time antivirus program isn’t perfect; something evil could slip by it. So to be on the safe side, get a second opinion every week by scanning with another security program.
For that second opinion, you need something reliable, you want something free, and you don’t need anything with real-time protection. So I recommend either SUPERAntiSpyware or Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. I use both, running one the first week and the other the second.
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