You use the computer for writing, playing games, listening to music, maintaining social contacts and many other purposes. Or you may not do anything other than listening to music on it. Whatever the case is, the intelligent machine should be in good shape and healthy condition for getting the best possible output from it.

Your computer is old and too sluggish to cope with your requirements. In that case you should update your computer by replacing vital parts like the Processor, H/D, or RAM with better speed and higher storing capacity elements. But the case may not be so simple. If you accumulate a lot of unnecessary programs and files on the hard drive, create useless short cuts, causing congestion on the desktop, those may be the real culprit for slowing down the machine. These things can be sorted out by a competent person only.

You may find that one morning your computer responds in a bizarre way. That might mean it has become an easy target for deadly viruses, which have started to destroy the software that governs the machine. So you should have an effective Antivirus installed on the computer. You must update it regularly.

The hard disc needs to be scanned at regular intervals for its own wellbeing. You have a program named scandisc built into your copy of Windows for this purpose. This software checks and fixes the faults on the hard disc automatically. You may develop another good habit of using the defragmentation tool; this is something that should be done regularly.

You need a fast internet connection to get access to the information super highway. Another important point you shouldn-t forget; despite using all the above good practices, you may still lose your important data which has been stored on your computer. So always keep a backup of your files.

Above all you should try to remain fit physically, using correct sitting positions when sitting at the computer so as to avoid back pain and such ailments.

Enjoy computer life.