Year 12, Unit 2, Task 5, D1

Security Virus Protection/firewalls
Viruses tend to come from the internet and when your computer has a virus it will attach itself to a specific program and every time that program is used then the virus will multiply within the computer. The virus will then get bigger and attach itself onto other programs within the computer which will cause the programmes in the computer to run much slower than before and may also cause some of the tools in the program to be faulty. Therefore having anti-virus protection on you computer such as Norton, will make sure that if there is a virus within the computer then it is dealt with, if not then the applications in your computer will lose quality and start to be faulty which isn't a good thing, especially if the program is important and needed on a daily basis.

Having firewall on your computer will enhance the performance of the system and how it works. If the computer is hacked or the connection of the computer has been interfered with then the computer will be slow and the connection won’t be as high of quality. If you didn't have a firewall can also therefore put risk to the information that you have on your computer, such as personal details about yourself including bank details. Overall having firewall is important for your computers performance and for many security reasons.

Clean up Tools

If you have too many cookies that have been downloaded from websites on your computer, then this can cause the computer to run slower, which is also applicable for internet history. Having too much internet history can cause your computer to be slower as it is adding to the usage of the computer itself, and when the computer is slower the productivity of it is lower.  

Defragmentation is all about the files and the sizes of them, as files can be quite big, defragmentation helps this. Having this will also affect the speed of your computer as if the sizes of files are too large then space will fill up quickly and reduce the productivity.

Drive Formatting

Drive formatting is important as it sorts through the hard disk that is used for the computer and makes sure that the hardware can be readable to the computer. If you didn't have drive formatting in your computer then the hardware would not be able to read the hard disk as drive formatting gives it a logical structure and therefore affect the computer as it wouldn't work.