Tips to Maintain a Healthy Windows OS

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Microsoft's Windows Operating System(OS) is a very common Operating system these days. But, for proper functioning of the OS, you need to perform various maintenance tasks on it that will help you run a Healthy OS. By Healthy OS, I simply mean that the OS is working fine without any errors or lags. To achieve this, there are various ways. We already discussed How to Maintain a Healthy Windows XP OS in our post here. In this post, I will discuss them for all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Tips for a Healthy OS:

1. Disk Cleanup: Run the default Disk Cleaning Utility once every month. A detailed guide can be found on our previous post, which is linked in the text above.


2. Disk Defragmentation: The data on the disk is stored in different fragments and you really need to do this on your computer at least once a month.


3. Scan Disk: Sometimes the hard disk has some errors and that lead to read or write errors for the windows OS. You should scan your hard disk for any such errors and fix them. You can also schedule a boot time disk check for a better scanning of the hard disk.


4. Cleaning: The above tasks can be accomplished by simply using the inbuilt System tools. This is a task that you can perform by installing an application on your computer. The application is called CCleaner by Piriform. This is a really useful application. You can clean up space on your hard disk and also, you can fix registry issues with this application.


5. Fix Registries: Registries are a type of information that any application that you install saves on your computer. But, when you un-install the application, these registries are sometimes not removed. So, they leave broken registries in the computer. You can simply fix the registries by using the CCleaner application mentioned in the above point.


6. Antivirus and Anti-malware: An antivirus and an anti-malware applications are a must on your computer to keep it free of viruses and malwares. There are various applications available that can do this task. There are many free as well as paid applications. I personally prefer using the Avast Antivirus's free edition. Also, you must keep them up to date so that they can "fight" any virus or malware attack on your computer.

Well, these are more or less all the points you need to keep in mind in order to have a healthy Windows OS. If you have any other suggestions for us, share it with everyone in the comments section and let us know of them. Keep subscribed to TechHive for more such interesting posts. There are various subscription options available for our Blog.