As you have seen in the
previous sections, preventive maintenance
also includes activities related to software
maintenance. The advantage of software-related
preventive maintenance activities is that
they need not be performed manually.
You can automate them. There are system
tools that automatically run programs at
a specific time. However, you need to set up
the system to perform various software
checks and maintenance activities. Operating
systems are capable of mechanizing these
activities or third-party utilities can
be used to perform these activities. These
maintenance activities result in increasing
the performance and safeguarding the data
of the computer.
| The following software-related activities can be mechanized: |
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Error checking
in file system and hard disks |
|
Virus scanning in files and
hard disks |
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Defragmenting hard disk volumes |
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