Unit 2, Task 5, D1

Security virus protection is used to improve the performance of your computer system. They protect the computer system from getting viruses. Security virus protection is used to protect your computer system from trojan horses. You could lose control of your computer if trojan horses and viruses take over. Viruses can cause pop ups to occur when you try and access different websites. It could also cause your computer to completely shut down. If you have security virus protection, you will be informed when a virus tries to come into contact with your computer which will then allow you to take immediate action against it.

Clean up tools for removal of cookies and/or internet history and/or defragmentation is used to remove any unwanted items from your computer. If you did not have clean up tools on your computer, it would get overloaded with cookies which may stop your computer from working as your memory will be too full. After using your computer for a long period of time different files can become corrupted which can slow down your computer. You are able to clean and repair these files by using hard drive utility applications. The easiest way to boost the performance of your computer is to do a format of the hard drive and reinstall all the necessary files. Fragmentation makes the hard drive do extra work therefore slowing down the computer. Disc defragmentation is able to rearrange fragmented data to allow your discs and drives to work better. To make sure computer performance better you can remove all of the internet history. All of these clean up tools will provide a much quicker computer.

Drive formatting gets rid of all unnecessary content on your computer and restores it to the way it used to be. This will make the computer run much quicker and will allow you to have more memory. When a computer is formatted all of the data on the disc is erased and replaced with a fresh copy of the operating system. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive. Computers run much quicker when there is more free space on the hard drive. Computer’s often experience problems due to viruses and other unnecessary programmes which can be dangerous to the computer system. To resolve these issues you should reformat the hard drive regularly.