Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guide

Maintenance 5
Recommended Maintenance Schedule
Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly (seasonally)
Manage e-mail
 Delete e-mail from
unknown sources.
 Do not open
untrusted
attachments.
 Organize e-mail.
Protect against
viruses, adware,
and spyware
 Update definition
files or schedule a
weekly automatic
update.
 Run a full virus,
adware, and
spyware scan or
schedule a weekly
automatic scan.
Use Windows
Update
 Check for updates
or schedule a
monthly automatic
update.
(See the Getting
Started Guide for
details.)
Set new passwords
(See the Getting Started
Guide for details.)
Optimize
performance
 Run Disk Cleanup.
(See “Running the
Disk Cleanup
Program” on
page 2.)
 Run Disk
Defragmenter.
(See “Running the
Disk Defragmenter
Program” on
page 3.)
 Check for disk
errors.
(See “Checking for
Hard Disk Drive
Errors” on page 4.)
Review the
Start menu
 Set to open only
needed applications:
1 Click the Windows
Start Button, All
Programs, then
click Windows
Defender.
2 Click Tools.
3 Click Software
Explorer.
4 In the Category list,
select Startup
Programs.
5 Select the program
that you want to
prevent from running
and click Disable.
Clean the computer,
monitor, keyboard,
and mouse
 For detailed cleaning
instructions, go to:
http://
www.hp.com/
support
Select your country/
region and language,
search on your
computer model
number, and then
search on the keyword
cleaning.