Most of the steps for maintaining your personal computer are generally very easy to perform.  Make sure that you execute these tasks at least once in a every month. If you haven’t performed any maintenance task on your personal computer since long time then the course of action could take few more time than normal time to complete. But once you have finished these tasks, it will take only few minutes for the next time you perform this task again on your personal computer. Here are the few simple and important tasks which you need to perform on your personal computer at least once in a month to have your pc working efficiently.

• Cleaning Recycle Bin
• Cleaning Temporary Files
• Cleaning Temporary Internet Files
• De-fragmentation of Hard Drive
• Clearing the Prefetch Cache
• Cleaning Unwanted Registry Values
• Stopping Unwanted Services (under XP only)