2017 is almost here and you realize that you have had many
IT maintenance problems in your business . Some have happened unexpectedly,
others have been due to the effect of the accumulation of a sum of lack of
maintenance and bad computer science practices. In either case, you wonder how
to improve the IT maintenance of your business this new year.
In this post we want towards bounce you some preventive
computer maintenance tips that will help you avoid so many problems with your
computers. It's something that, in large part, can help you lighten the money
you spend on solving common computer problems
How to improve IT maintenance in 2017
We are going to give you about tips that you can take into
account so that this year things go better. In this way, you will not have to
waste so much time because your resources are not adequate, or do not perform
well.
1. Don't save everything on your hard drive
If your computer's hard drive is old and does not reach more
than 40 GB, perhaps your computer will be useful if you do not record too many
images, videos and programs. But if you have been downloading large files for
years and years, rest assured that at some point it will fill up and your
computer will begin to use RAM. In this case, you can only do three things.
•Install a modern 500 GB or 1 TB hard drive, so you will
forget about space problems for a long time.
•Buy yourself a new computer with a hard drive of these
characteristics.
•Do not record everything on your hard drive and start using
the cloud to store the largest files.
In any case, it is time to clean up your hard drive and
format if you have been saving files for many years.
2. Don't make your RAM suffer
Another problem that you may have had this year is that your
RAM memory has become very small. You might even have 1GB memory on your laptop
and still keep it with an outdated operating system, like Windows Vista or
Windows XP. If you are in that situation, the best thing you can do is stop
making your RAM suffer .
Add more RAM to your computer , or buy a new computer, since
that way your computer will run much faster. Another thing you can do, as an
alternative, is to uninstall that operating system and use a GNU / Linux
operating system, such as Ubuntu, which takes up much less space and works much
faster than Windows.
3. Monitor the status of your computer
Ideally, before we reach a situation in which our computer
does not work with an adequate speed, we must monitor our resources. In this
way, we can schedule moments during the year dedicated to maintenance, such as
restoration or formatting of the system. Not a single day will you be working
like this with a slow computer, which handles more resources than it can really
handle due to its characteristics.
There are various programs to monitor the performance of
your computer , or of a computer network. Ideally, a computer maintenance
professional will take care of this management.
4. Use software as a service
When you can't take care of something, such as software
maintenance , the ideal is to use cloud software . You will not have to have it
installed on your servers, which on the other hand require maintenance,
adequate dependencies to function and trained IT personnel to manage it.
By using SaaS or software as a service, you can free up
space on your computers or servers. Working will be much easier, you will
reduce time lost in the development of processes and you will even save time
and money that until now you invested in self-management. We know that choosing
a program as a service is not always easy, but there are many alternatives that
are worth knowing.
5. Adopt good practices when browsing the Internet
99% of viruses get into our computers for not following a
code of good practice . We are not always the problem, it may be that there are
employees who do not have an adequate IT culture to avoid risks when browsing
the Internet. However, we have to be extremely careful in this regard. We
recommend you read the post How to improve your safety when browsing the
Internet .
Do employees enter Internet pages that may contain viruses?
Do they download suspicious and unauthorized files and programs? Do they go
into your email and click on links in emails that have landed in the spam
folder? Do you use P2P networks like eMule and the like? Do they enter links
that reach inbox messages through their social networks, or the social networks
of the company?
All these behaviors are dangerous and have a high
probability of generating a computer virus problem on your company's computer
or computers. Therefore, we must review the practices that we and our employees
follow to avoid as much as possible any route of entry to viruses and Trojans
on our computers.
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