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PC Maintenance: Complete Health Check

You may think that dealing with PC problems is a reactionary process; problems occur, then you have to fix them, and pick up the pieces in terms of data and productivity loss. However, there are many tools available that will analyse the hardware components inside your PC and predict when they are likely to fail. By running these tools as part of a comprehensive maintenance routine you can stay one step ahead of the gremlins inside your PC, and avoid the serious system crashes before that wreak havoc on your computer. In this article, well show you the best freeware diagnostic tools available to identify PC problems, and whats more, what steps you need to rectify and problems you do find. Well show you the basic maintenance steps you need to take, in order to develop a comprehensive maintenance routine that addresses every area of PC health.

Category: Optimisation
Issue: 2008 Issue 3 May/June
Operating Systems: XP, Vista
Article Reference: P20