Routine Maintenance and Time Traveling

Slow computer? It’s not as complex as time travel, or is it?

PCASSURANCE by DialAGeek is designed to streamline the routine maintenance that is essential in keeping your Windows or Mac-based computers operating as well as the first day you took it out of the box. Besides the obvious spyware and virus threats, all computers accumulate unnecessary and potentially dangerous bits of broken data and extraneous files. Computers – even those that are never online – when “opening” a document or file require the assembling of all sorts of disparate parts. The bigger the file (read: family photos) the wackier. After you’re through fiddling with this particular group of ones and zeros most of the connections are erased. The key word here is MOST. You see, RAM (Random Access Memory) acts as a kind of sorting machine that, due to the complexity of computing, can’t always put back everything the same way it came out. An obvious example of this would be if you make a change to a document. In order to keep track of changes, documents often run in parallel with themselves. In other words, two different files of nearly the same thing exist simultaneously. Without getting all Back to the Future on you, clearly there’s a potential for danger when two things that are one exist (you know, “time space continuum” stuff) at the same time. At any rate, all this whizzing around in time – strike that – assembling and disassembling of data leaves a few bits, here and there, un-accounted for. Quickly, these bits and pieces add up to a slower, and space deprived computer that hardly resembles the one you took out of the box a couple of months ago. This is the stuff that PCASSURANCE sorts out for you on an ongoing basis. In fact, two of the leading contributors to extra bits of data – page memory and temporary memory – are cleaned every four hours. Weekly, the entire disc is inspected for misplaced or extraneous bits of information that are shuffled around or deleted for optimum performance. You don’t want Marty and his siblings completely disappearing from your “memory”, now do you.