How To Prolong The Useful Shelf Life Of XP – Reimage Review
The recession has made many PC owners hold on to their computers longer than they perhaps intended to. Windows XP has enjoyed a prolonged existence as a direct result of this in spite of Windows Vista and Windows 7 being released.
This Reimage review looks at the role that PC maintenance software can play in home PC repairs. In addition, the value of keeping up with a schedule of maintenance tasks is highlighted as a key way to keep a PC stable and secure.
As the recession resulted in more people holding onto their PCs it became more important to make effective computer repairs as faults in the software arose. It is a simple fact that aging computers gather faults as applications and hardware are installed, removed, changed and upgraded.
The starting point for keeping a PC running well is keeping up with your maintenance activities:
- Run the Windows Update service often. This keeps the operating system secure and stable.
- Keep your anti-virus software up to date with the latest virus definitions and schedule it to scan the full PC on a regular basis.
- Always keep at least 10% of the hard drive free for use by the operating system. If you need to free up some space then remove old unused applications or use free tools like CCleaner to clear out the cache.
- Make duplicate versions of the registry file that you can back-up with your personal data (this is invaluable when fatal software faults occur).
- Defragment all hard drives at least once a month.
The benefit of having a basic maintenance schedule is that it becomes easier to handle faults as they arise in the future. As faults then occur, many PC owners will attempt the repairs for themselves using advice off the internet or by using software to make the repairs. The field of PC maintenance software (e.g. the Reimage repair tool) has grown over the years and provides an automated means of repairing software/OS faults.
The Reimage review process can analyze the entire computer for the root cause of serious faults such as blue screen exceptions, registry file corruption/damage, virus/trojan damage and errors to system files. The online scan is free to run and takes 15 to 20 minutes to report back its results.
The software runs inside a browser in order to compare faults with their web-based inventory of working configurations. Reimage compiles a report in under 20 minutes of the faults and proposes the repairs it can make using their file store of over 20 million XP-related files. The repairs take under 30 minutes from start to finish.
Older PCs can still be useful as secondary computers, family PCs or media boxes for storing your music. If the hardware in older computers keeps working fine then there is no reason why it should still be possible to keep the operating system in a working state by keeping up a maintenance schedule.
If you enjoyed reading this Reimage review, then be sure to check out our other articles on PC maintenance software solutions.
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