ABSTRACT
This chapter covers hard drive partitioning and backup and explains the basics of optimizing performance by disabling unneeded programs that run in the background. It discusses a bit about computer and website programming. For most of us, audio maintenance includes knowing how to properly set up and organize a personal computer. With computers used for audio and video projects, drive fragmentation limits the number of tracks recording engineer can record and play at once. Most computers include defragmenting software that consolidates all of the files into contiguous sectors on the disk. On Windows computers, most programs that run in the background are listed under Services, which one get to from the Control Panel. An uninterruptible power supply is also mandatory to protect recording engineers' computer and data. All computer programs include “header” statements that let the program access services in the operating system such as allocating memory or reading a file, among other details.
