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Have you ever loss your important data ? Well, i have.
At that moment I really agree on what people say that prevention is always a better cure.
Here are some steps that I want to share with you in order to prevent data loss.

1. Use an updated Anti Virus software and always keep it up to date
Antivirus is a special software developed to protect your computer against malicious computer virus.
Some virus can remove or modify your data without you ever realize it and some virus can cause your computer to crash.
So make sure to keep your Antivirus software uptodate with the latest patch and signature files for maximum security.

2. Protect your computer against power surges with UPS
UPS is an Uninterruptible Power Supply. It protects your computer and data during a power surge or failure.
UPS is equiped with a spare battery that provides you some time to save your documents and shutting down Windows properly so that you don’t lose any files and avoiding your computer hardware components from the possibility of damages.

3. Make sure your machine is dry and keept in dust-free area
Place your computer far away from places that can be directly exposed to rain, sun or humidity.
These places have the tendency to cause rusting and can damage your hardware components.

4. Don’t try to repair or open up your computer without any assistance
If you have no experience in repairing computer hardware, you may accidentally damage the circuit boards,
hardware components or even worst, get an electric shock! Always consult with an expert.

5. Don’t over-tweak your system
Avoid modifying your windows registry or perform an overclock to your hardware in order to boost the performance unless if you are definitely sure on what you’re doing. I’m sure you don’t want to fry your computer.

6. Make a backup copy and keep them at an off-site location
This helps protecting your backup copy from damage, just in case if there is a natural disaster such as flood, fire or any kind of disaster.

7. Don’t move your computer while it still running/operating
I’m sure that you don’t want your power cord falling off and generates a data corruption or a physical damage to your hard disk such as a head crash while you still working on a project.

8. Avoid sharing access to your computer with strangers on the network
Your data can be stolen or modified if anyone on the network can have access to your files.

9. Perform hard disk maintenance
Delete temporary files, unnecessary files and defragment your hard disk regularly.
This can help you keeping up your hard disk on good condition.

10. Aware of failure symptoms
When you hard disk starts making noises and your systems are getting cranky, it is time to start making backups on all of your data files.

I hope this steps can help you to prevent from loosing your data files.

Uninstalling a Windows program leaves multiple traces like abandoned registry keys, setting files and shared subroutine libraries that are no longer used by any program. When you are seeking for a perfect solution to your problem, you are typically downloading and trying out lots of different applications distributed on the trial base. After you finish your explore, you’ll determine on just one application, and will want to get rid of the previous application you’ve tested. But do you realize how many garbage they leave behind even after being ‘completely’ uninstalled?

If you install a large suite made by a big-name company, you’re having the best quality software that certainly experiences how to behave and how to clean up by itself, right? Wrong! Many of them leave behind multiple traces that are probably getting your computer behave odd, or even lead to troubles that are impossible to predict and difficult to resolve.

Need an examples? How about a firewall that forgets to move out a system-level driver that filters IP packets? After uninstalling the product, the driver just sits there, performing nothing except slowing down the performance of your PC. Try another one of those firewalls and stack an extra system-level driver on top, and you’ll get connectivity problems that are very difficult to resolve if you’re not an experienced network administrator.

Did you use any tools to create backups of your CDs and DVDs? There’s a lot of tools on the market that shamelessly leave behind the drivers they use to access the discs directly. Each of these drivers slows down access to optical discs and makes reads and writes less stable.

Simple utilities produced by small companies and independent software sellers are very prospective to leave traces behind in many places on your computer. Simply because they are free trial and time limited, they try to hide info about their installation date and usage in obscure places, making it on purpose difficult to trace and clean up. There’s nothing wrong with protecting intellectual property, but what happens if you try out a lot of applications, and decide on a single application to do the job? Do you actually have to bring all the garbage in “the house” in order to buy just one tool?

If you start thinking that the only way to keep on your computer clean is by not installing anything on it, think twice! There’s a great solution to these kind of problems made by some trusty vendors. One of them, which i have personally tried, is Registry Mechanic.
Developed by PCTools, this a strong tools to optimize windows registry.
You can try out by downloading the trial version from the official web site, only there are limited features with the trial version.