Doing PC maintenance is quite easy nowadays. You’re only need to install several security systems in your computer, and it will take care of anything. For example, when you installed a new antivirus and running it, it will help protecting your PC from any possible virus attack. You don’t even break a sweat every time this tool helps you to get rid of the virus. Other things that you probably known are a prevention steps could run smoothly with the assistance of these antivirus and anti spyware.

Yes, you’re still careful in opening an email attachment that you don’t know or visiting some dangerous websites. But, with the knowledge of having antivirus and anti spyware in your back, you could minimize the risk of any virus or spyware attack.

There is one thing you need to know in order to do a full PC maintenance, it’s a log file. Log file is a result that usually created every time your antivirus or anti spyware scanning your PC. It contains many useful information about the current condition of your PC. If you have a network connection for several PCs, learning about log files is very important.

What can you do by the way with these log files? You could track the current condition of your PC and track the progress. Here are several things that you should track down with you log files:

1. Antivirus and anti spyware

Each of this program will gives you a complete log file every time they finished their scans. You could find out about your PC condition starting from the first time you run the antivirus or anti spyware scan program.

2. Performance

If you have a log files that specifically created to track down every PC performance in your network, you could use it to figure out whether performance of each computer increase or decrease. You could also tracking down the causes by comparing the log files that you have before with the latest one. It could also help you to detect whether any malware attach to your PCs and figure out how you can get rid of it.

3. IP address

If you have several problems that start attacking several PCs in your network, you could use the IP address to located the source of problems and give the solutions to it. You could track it down with the log files than checking each PC one by one.

4. Disk Space

You could increase the effectiveness of your disk defragmenter activities by having at least 20% free disk space available. How do you know this? From your log files, of course. Having this information at hand will help you to get the right decision whether you need another hard drives or not.

Doing PC maintenance with antivirus and anti spyware is not enough. You need to be proactive in tracking the progress of your PC. You need to know what makes your PC run faster or what things that make it too slow. Use your log files to give you some clues about what you should do next. Doing this regularly, and you’ll maintain a great condition for your PC.