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Maintaining and Optimizing

Operating Systems

CHAPTER 14

In this chapter, you will learn how to

• Perform operating system maintenance tasks

• Optimize operating systems

• Prepare for problems

Every computer running a modern operating system (OS) requires both

occasional optimization to keep the system running snappily and ongoing

maintenance to make sure nothing goes wrong. Microsoft, Apple, and the

many Linux developers use decades of experience with operating systems to

search for ways to make the tasks of maintaining and optimizing surprisingly

easy and very automatic, but there’s still plenty to do to keep things humming

along.

This chapter covers maintenance and optimization, so let’s make sure you

know what these two terms mean. Maintenance means jobs you do from time

to time to keep the OS running well, such as running mass storage drive

utilities. CompTIA sees optimization as changes you make to a system to

make it better—a good example is adding RAM. This chapter covers the

standard maintenance and optimization activities performed on Windows,

macOS, and Linux, and the tools techs use to perform them.

Even the best maintained, most perfectly optimized computer is going to

run into trouble. Hard drives crash, naïve coworkers delete files, and those

super great new video card drivers sometimes fail. The secret isn’t to try to

avoid trouble, because trouble will find you, but rather to make sure you’re

ready to deal with problems when they arise. This is one area that very few

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