{"id":329,"date":"2016-08-12T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T04:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/?p=329"},"modified":"2016-08-12T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:00:07","slug":"keeping-your-work-pc-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/blog\/2016\/08\/keeping-your-work-pc-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your work PC up to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 10 second video that explains how you can keep your PC up to date, virus free, and running as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9fAsEzGH_2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Seems too easy, huh?<\/p>\n<p>But leaving your PC on and logged out allows your\u00a0computer\u00a0to download any software updates and security patches it\u00a0needs.<\/p>\n<p>If your PC is logged out, IT\u00a0can also run important maintenance and clean up tasks on your machine, ensuring it will be ready for the day ahead. And best of all, you&#8217;ll never have to wait for new software to download, right when you need it!<\/p>\n<p>If you dont want to leave your PC\u00a0on every night, or you&#8217;re a laptop user that takes your PC home with you, then set yourself a reminder to leave the machine on, logged out, and connected to ethernet at least once a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 10 second video that explains how you can keep your PC up to date, virus free, and running as fast as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35284],"tags":[43445,43046,95],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","tag-log-out","tag-pc","tag-security"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/unsw-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}