Monday, 12 January 2009

Benefits on the performance of the following activities

Benefits of Virus Protection:

· Prevents a virus damaging your PC or network.
· Prevents downtime, i.e. valuable working time could be wasted if you can not access your PC due to a virus infection.
· Protects valuable information on your PC.
· Prevents other people outside of your organisation being able to access your information whether it is business or personal data.
· Potentially prevents emails being sent by your system. Some viruses access your email folders and send an email to all of your contacts with the virus attached.

Benefits of Scheduling a full system scan:

Scheduling a full system scan helps you to prevent your computer from viruses. Antivirus updating should be done on regular basis to make it capable to deal with new viruses.

Benefits of Installing Service Pack 2 patches for Windows XP:

Installing service pack 2 helps in fixing the range of bugs in Windows XP. The file is a large download and can be applied to any version of Windows XP Home or Professional. It doesn't require an Internet connection to install and you can also use it on any system. Moreover, Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 provides better security measures that will improve defences against viruses, worms and hackers, along with increased manageability and an improved experience for users. It will change many default settings to improve security.

Benefits of Defragmenting hard drive:

Disk Defragmenter is a computer program included in Microsoft Windows designed to increase access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy closest storage locations. The purpose is to optimize the time it takes to read and write files to/from the disk by minimizing head travel time and maximizing the transfer rate.

Benefits of drive formatting:

Formatting drive makes your computer work faster. If you keep the backup of your important files and format the drive, it removes all the viruses from your computer.

Benefits of Installing Firewall:

A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.

Benefits of Creating Folders:

Each program you install on a Computer creates its own folder in the Hard Drive where it keeps most of its files. Keeping files organized in folders can help user when working on PC.

Benefits of Copying and Deleting Files:

Benefits of copying file:
Copying files will restore your files as a backup so that if you delete any file accidentally or get a virus attack on your Computer, you can get it back from the backup storage where you copied the file.

Benefits of deleting files:
Deleting files help you increasing the memory of your computer. If your computer has less space/memory so you can delete the unwanted files from your computer to increase the memory.

Back-up to CD using compression software:

Data compression is a useful option when you need to back-up large amounts of data and you do not have a lot of storage space. You can store more data by using compression software.

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