A Pragmatic Approach to Carrying out Computer Systems Housekeeping Routines

Many computer users use computer systems to carry out their daily activities without recourse to a good maintenance culture. Users do wait until their systems stopped working before they begin to run from one pole to another seeking for professional technical attention. Housekeeping is a set of routine tasks you should perform on a regular basis, which will help keep your computer system running smoothly and efficiently. This paper examined practical approach of carrying out computer system Housekeeping routines. The paper also justified why computer systems Housekeeping and how to perform Housekeeping routine on PC external components. There are two ways to performing housekeeping routine which were discussed in this paper. One is the external components of the computer system and two, the computer systems files. This paper also discussed some useful hints a computer user can follow to elongate the life span of their systems