Many people wonder what the best thing they can do for their PC is. Honestly to keep your computer running well and continually running well for as long as possible you have to do maintenance on the PC just as you would any other machine. Your computer's worst enemy is Dust and air born contaminants as they are sucked into the system and drawn to it on a daily basis. Your computer's internal components run entirely on DC voltage that is converted by the Power Supply in the system. All these components including the power supply can will and do attract dust. The dust will short across components and can cause the component to fry. Also your heat sinks for the processor, chip sets, and RAM all will build up dust as well restricting air flow. I highly recommend that you get a can of compressed air (Duster) or if you have a compressor that has a way to not build up internal moisture and blow out the entire system making sure to blow all the dust off all electronic boards, heat sinks, and even the inside of the power supply. You really want to make sure the system is off and unplugged for this as well.
Your operating system and file system which controls everything to the computer requires maintenance and protection as well. The system has files that track configuration settings and file locations of everything on the system call the system REGISTRY. This file will end up cluttered over time due to install and removal of programs and files. The Registry needs cleaned with special software from time to time. Also just from being turned on and ran files can become fragmented on the hard drive. A fragmented file is a file that parts and pieces are scattered all over various portions of the hard drive and causes the hard drive with mechanical heads to have to scan back and forth over much more of the drive. Defragmenting the file system forces the drive to put all the pieces of the file in order where all the data it must read is right there.
For protection you just need a good antivirus, AntiMalware/AntiSpyware software, and probably a firewall.
It is recommended that you clean the dust from your system once a month or one sever two months and you maintain your operating system at least once a month for optimal performance and longest life of your system.
Sadly computers are electronic devices like light bulbs and just like light bulbs any time your PC can just quite be it a component went out on the system or something inevitably failed. Maintenance helps as much as possible to prolong the life of these components but will not stop failure.
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