The question has come to me in the past: A distant relic of a time gone by. But today, it is a featured story on both Link Removed and Link Removed. This is an age old question for computer users by now, and especially technicians.Mr. Link Removed from PCWorld writes:
Most consumer computers...
component reliability
computer usage
corporate environment
data retention
electrical costs
energy efficiency
greencomputing
hard drive management
hardware longevity
hibernation
it administration
it policies
maintenance tasks
motherboard technology
pc components
power management
power states
sata drives
software updates
standby mode
Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
avast! Intelligent Scanner
Silent/Gaming Mode
Behavior Shield
Real time anti-rootkit protection
Smart virus updates
avast! Community IQ
Behavioral Honeypots
Green computing
avast! iTrack
File System / Mail Shield
Web Shield
IM / P2P Shield
Network Shield...