Your work throughout (particularly on the hardware), must conform to current health and safety requirements.

The most important thing is that when you are working with hardware makes sure the electric wires such as power supply is unplugged. While you are working with hardware make sure don’t touch those stuff which you really don’t know what you have to done with them. You should use a fully adjustable chair as this will avoid poor posture. Make sure there is no liquid substance around you which will accidentally affect the hardware. Take several breaks and keep you self moving to keep your self away from back ache. Make sure the monitor is eyelevel and your hands are supported when you are typing and make sure that you feet touch the floor properly. To prevent Strain Injury, you should use wrist rests and have a five-minute break from typing every hour.

Explain the effect of these activities on the performance of the computer system; indicate why they are undertaken and what benefits they bring to the

The effect of these activities on the performance of the computer system will now enable the speed of the computer to run and work smoothly, such as if you use a virus protection on you computer it will notify you if there is any virus on your computer and most of these virus protection will remove if it finds any virus. It is very important to scan you computer at least once a month. You could use schedule task to scan your computer once a moth. The benefit of scheduling is that it will schedule at the specific date and time you schedule it for. And the benefit of Clean-up tools -defrayment hard drive, Cleaning up Pc tools helps the Pc to delete the unwanted file and same twice copied files and make the speed of a Pc faster and reliable. And also the benefit of installing a firewall is that it secures system, protecting it from access by unauthorized users. It is also good to back up your work using a CD or a portable hard drive; this is because in case of any virus that damages your computer, or prevents accident deletion and loss of work. You could have the access to those files again. So there for it’s a great advantage of keeping a back up of your work. To Create Copy and delete files help the users to copy they files in other drive, and to deleting an unwanted files can help to save space in they drive to run the computer faster. And Install Service Pack 2 patches for Windows XP are to update security packages which allows the computer to protect it from unwanted and harmful material which can affect windows XP and computer files.