How do you maintain your computer performance?

How often do you defragment your HD in order to optimize your computer performance? When last you have ran Disk Clean up in order to remove unnecessary cookies, aches, etc?

When you attempt to download a program off the Internet, do you appreciate the time to read the software License Agreement? Also, do you always use caution when downloading stuffs from the Internet?

Do you have spyware, virus, firewall and other Internet security protections installed on your computer? If yes, what brand do you use?

What are some common practices to prevent Internet Viruses? In what condition do you protect your computer/notebook overall?

Which Internet Browser would you recommend to others without hesitating?

What are the easiest ways to become infected by viruses?

How do you maintain your computer performance?panda

Firefox, without a doubt. (I have mentioned which security programs to use below).

Following these steps will increase the ''speed'' of your computer dramatically.

1) Clean up the disk. Uninstall unneeded programs (especially those that run at startup and/or put something in the system tray), run Disk Cleanup, and defragment the drive. This is a good first step that will almost always take a few seconds off boot time and application loads for any computer.

2) Stomp auto-starting programs. Click Start %26gt; Run and type ''msconfig'' at the prompt. Click the Startup tab and look at all that junk that loads when you launch your PC. Do you really need ''Adobe Reader Speed Launch''? Probably not. Turn off anything else that looks useless, but be careful not to disable your anti-virus and important system components.