PMS

Preventive Maintenance Schedule and Summary

In order for preventive maintenance to be useful, you have to remember to do it! This is not always as easy as it sounds. Most of us have equipment around the house that we know we should work on but we always forget if not reminded. We solve this problem and create a customized preventive maintenance schedule for your PC.

As discussed here, some types of maintenance are really better done when they need to be done based on the condition of the system or device, instead of just doing them after a preset amount of time. This can be hard to gauge though, and it is easy to forget to do the maintenance work (or put it off indefinitely).

For this reason, we set up a preventive maintenance schedule. This is simply a chart that shows various maintenance activities, and how often they should be done, to allow you to setup a calendar so you remember to do your PM work. You should alter this schedule when it makes sense, and also add extra instances of importance of PM activities when they make sense. For example, you may normally only update the information on your emergency boot floppies once every few months, but you will also want to do it any time you upgrade your operating system, regardless of when you did it last before this event.

Below we have included a the sample preventive maintenance schedule, which includes approximate recommended time intervals for performing the various procedures. The frequency with which you perform preventive maintenance really depends on what your system is, how you use it, and what is important to you. The numbers below are guidelines that should at least put most people in the right ballpark. You should determine what schedule makes sense for you and we will help you understand the various maintenance procedures that are most appropriate.

Also note that backups should follow their own organized schedule. This is because even if you do backups daily (and you should), you may not back up the same items each day. See here for a discussion of backup schedules.

The sample schedule below is actually organized by recommended frequency. It represents those preventive maintenance activities that make sense for most PC owners.

CLICK Here for the sample preventive maintenance schedule

System Care: Protecting Your PC

Media Retention - Media Size Matching - Media Tradeoffs
Backup - data loss - Disaster Recovery - Preventative Maintenance
Disk errors - Disk quality - Defrag - Virus detection - Virus Scanning - Infections

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