My customers regularly ask me if there is anything they can do that will help them keep there computers running well and keep them from needing to call me so much.  The answer is YES.  There are a couple of tools that I recommend that will can help you keep your computer running.

First of all, you need a good Anti-Virus program.  Thankfully you do not need to go out and spend lots of money when Microsoft Security Essentials is free and does a fantastic job of keeping those pesky viruses at bay. All you need to do is install it, update it and schedule it to run daily.  Then you can just forget about it.

Malewarebytes is another free anti-virus tool that compliments Security Essentials in that it finds those sneaky spyware and malware apps that can considerably slow down your machine or worse.  I like to run Malwarebytes about once a week and it usually picks up some stuff that Security Essentials misses.