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.