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Slow Network—Tips to Fix Slow Network Problems
Dec 31st
Have you ever annoyed that the network speed is quite slower than before? For example, it takes more and more time to open a website while there is nothing wrong with the Explorer. Well, in this article, you can learn some useful tips to fix slow network problems.
In the very first place, it is the problem of network itself. The bandwidth of aim website server is not large or overloaded. This is the easiest problem and what you need to do is to change to other websites or change other to visit it.
Secondly, you may have used too many firewalls. If you use too many firewalls, it can slow down network for sure. The simplest way is to uninstall those unnecessary ones and just need to keep a powerful one, it is sufficient to serve very well for computer. You can remove such excessive firewall so as to improve net work speed.
And then, the system resource is too low. It is probably that there are excessive applications running in the background and computer is unable to spare enough resource for network. In order to solve this problem, you should load programs and delete useless applications and files properly so as to free up more space. By doing this, you can speed up network.
Next, computer worms may reduce network speed. Worm virus that is spread through E-mail has affected network more and more seriously. Such virus can force the affected users to send E-mails restlessly. Numerous junk E-mails are sent from your computer every second while millions of them are returned to your server in batches.
In this way, such rubbish is piling up in the server and slows down speed. As a result, you should upgrade anti-virus software and your computer and install patching program in time as well. And do not forget to uninstall those unnecessary services and to close down needless ports so as to improve safety and stability of system.
Besides, slow network problem may be caused by problems in internet cable, loops in the network, malfunction of network equipment and so forth. But they are quite professional for you. If you want to keep high network speedyou should form a good habit of using computer, such as clear up disk regularly.
Optimize PC performance – How to optimize PC performance by solving Windows XP read / write errors
Dec 31st
During the usage of Windows XP, it is inevitable that you have ever received kinds of read / write errors such as “xx memory can not be read or written”. So what should we do to effectively straighten them out and avoid the same problems when running large applications or games in the future? In fact, when unfortunately encountering the above problems, you can easily follow the steps below to solve the problem to optimize PC performance.
1) Remove some invalid plug-ins. When surfing the internet, some plug-ins will automatically install on the computer without letting us know. Seriously, some will be very easy to conflict with other applications, which indirectly results in system memory read/ write errors. In order to optimize PC performance, and provide a clean, stable working environment for the large applications and computer games, it is recommended that you can regularly run security software to check whether there are invalid plug-ins on the computer and timely remove them from the system.
2) Manually restore system services. If there is something wrong with the service “Windows Management Instrumentation”, a system memory read / write error will also occur. So you can manually restore this service in order to optimize PC performance. You can exactly follow the step below: go to Start ->run ->type “services.msc” to access “Services”. Here, please locate “Windows Management Instrumentation”->right click it to select “Properties” ->click “Stop” in the popping-up General tab to temporarily disable this service. Then please open system manager and then open the below folders one by one: Windows->System32->Wbem->Repository, and back up all folders within “Repository”. Last, please reboot your computer and restart “Windows Management Instrumentation” service.
3) Repair corrupted system files. Once the computer is infected by viruses, some files will be removed incorrectly, which results in memory read / write errors. So a repair of the corrupted system files is needed. What you need to do is to run an anti-virus program to check whether the computer is infected by viruses or spyware and turn on the real-time safeguard to protect your computer at any time.
Then you can use the “sfc” demand to repair the corrupted system files: go to Run -> CMD to open the “Command Prompt” windows -> enter “sfc/scannow” and press Enter to proceed the scan process. Once there is a corrupted system file, you will be promoted to insert the Windows installation disc to replace the corrupted files.
4) Last, to avoid this problem, what you need to do vitally is to release more available memory. So when running large application, you can first turn off other running program expect the one that you do need. Besides, please do remember to timely uninstall the unwanted programs that you do not need to release more available memory. Moreover, you should run a Disc Cleanup to regularly clear the useless system junk files from your computer, which followed by a simple disk defragmentation. In this way, all files will be arranged coherently on the hard disk and easier to be accessed to, which will not only fix the memory read or write errors but also optimize PC performance.
In conclusion, with the simple steps above, you can easily fix the read / write errors and then optimize PC performance greatly. But please note that no matter how brand-new your computer is right now, if it lacks proper daily maintenance, it will not work properly for you.
Slow Computer—Four Tips to Fix Slow Compute Speed Quickly
Dec 30th
Slow computer is so hassle for users but it is unavoidable since you have been using it for a long time. If you turn a blind eye to it, your computer speed may be slower and slower and can not fix such problem automatically. Therefore you should learn some methods to fix slow computer speed besides using third-parties tools.
In this article, I would like to introduce four tips to improve your computer speed manually. It is worthwhile for you reading it.
1. Clear up disk space.
If you do not have high computer configuration and not clear up computer for a long time, it is likely that your computer is running slower and slower because the hard disk is crammed with too many junk files. If you computer is fast before but slows down recently, you need to clean up C disk as soon as possible. As for the junk files, you can the temporary and swap files, certain page files, history records files and so on. Most of them are hidden in the C drive.
2. By deleting the junk files in the C drive, your computer is able to run faster than before. Besides, you have to defrag C drive after wiping those junks. You can click “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools”, you will see the defragmenting programs. And then it is necessary to clear up disk which is put in the same place as defragmenting one.
Next, set up a system restore point which is also in the “System Tools”. After doing that, you should close it down since restore point may consume a lot of C drive space. But it can help you restore the system to the normal state when you set up the point.
3. Uninstall some programs that you seldom use. It is undoubted that they take up too much space without doing any tangible things for computer. It is better to get rid of them, along with some useless functions such as “Error Reporting” and “Hibernation” which mean nothing for you but occupy the space.
4. Normally, when computer memory is too low, virtual memory will be created to solve such problem temporarily. You can set the value of virtual memory by hand. However too large or too small values can do harm to computer. You should set proper value for the maximum and minimum values respectively.
Slow computer is not so disturbing if you have grasped the correct methods to fix it. Besides, you can learn more about fixing slow computer problems by clicking the links.
Speed up Vista — How to greatly speed up Vista on low-configuration computers
Dec 30th
If you are using Vista operating system, you will find that it does not run as quickly and smoothly as XP does. Sometimes, it will take forever to load when starting up the computer. If you are tried of your slow Vista, please do not miss the tips here on how to speed up Vista and then make it run smoothly on low-configuration computers.
To speed up Vista, what you need to do first is to increase the Window popup speed. We all know that Vista uses animation effect when opening windows. For computers which have less memory, this will greatly affect the speed to open windows, slowing down the computer. So you can turn off the animation effect to get faster computer speed. Here is what you should go: open Registry Editor -> locate“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Window Metrics” brand -> Find “MinAniMate” and change its value data from “1” to “0”. In this way, when starting up the Vista computer, it won’t automatically load the animation effect, which greatly speeds up Windows Vista.
Secondly, to greatly speed up Vista, you should shorten the shutdown time. When shutting down Vista computer, the system itself will automatically close the programs / services which are still running. If there is a program which does not stop working within the system default time, the system will force to close it. So it is necessary to do some preparations before to avoid a waste of time when shutting down the computer. You can follow the steps here to do some modification: Open Registry Editor -> find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control” -> find and change the value data of “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” to 2000 or less than 2000.
Thirdly, optimize memory. We know that Vista operating system provides us a very gorgeous desktop when compared with XP, but it comes at the expense of large amount of memory. So to speed up Vista, what we need to do is to cancel some unnecessary functions to release more available memory.
1) Cancel Automatic Updates: My Computer ->Properties ->Automatic Updates ->tick “Turn off Automatic Updates” -> click “Ok” to save the settings.
2) Turn off System Restore within System Properties, which operates the same as what you have done to turn off automatic updates.
3) Turn off some unnecessary effects within Visual Effects: My Computer ->Properties ->Advanced -> Settings within “Performance” -> click “Custom” within the appearing “Visual Effects” window. Here, you can cancel the unnecessary items and just leave the three options below: Show shadows under mouse pointer、Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop and Use visual styles on windows and buttons. With the three steps above, it will maximally release at lease 3MB available memory.
Last but not the lease, to get a faster Vista, what you need to do is to disable some unnecessary services. When booting up the computer, some unneeded services will load automatically at background. Though a single service will not take large amount of memory, if accumulated, it will be numerous. So do remember to disable the services that you do not need to start at Windows startup: log in your computer as an administrator ->go to “Start” ->Run ->type “services.msc” and press Enter to access “Services”. Here, you can easily close the services that you do not need.
As what you can see above that, you can greatly speed up Vista with some very simple steps. But to always enjoy a faster windows Vista on low-configuration computers, you still need to take some daily maintenances to always optimize your computer, for example, regularly run a virus scan, Disk Cleanup to delete the unused files and Disk Defragmenter to arrange the files in order.
Blue Screen Problems—How to Prevent Blue Screen Problems in Advance
Dec 29th
Have you ever encountered that your computer is freezing up even sometimes falls into blue screen? This must be the last thing of computer problems for all the users to see. As a matter of fact, the best methods to fix blue screen problem is to prevent it in advance rather than figure it out when it happens.
This is what I want to share with you in this article—how to prevent blue screen problems in advance. Here are some tips to do that based on my own experience.
1. You should back up importance registry files manually at proper intervals. In this way, computer will not be in a mess if system goes wrong but there are not alternative backup files at hand.
2. For common users, if computer is running normally, it is unnecessary to upgrade graphic card and BIOS and driver programs of main board. You may not know that too much upgrading can harm system performance as well.
3. You should avoid closing down computer abnormally in order to lessen the number of lost files, such as Dynamic Library Links files (DLL) which is quite important for smooth computer running. You should be patient enough to wait for the shutting down of your computer completely.
4. And you had better not install useless software as possible as you can. If you are not skillful enough, you should not uninstall or delete programs manually so as to reduce the number of illegal alternative files.
5. To be honestly, if you do not have large RAM and administrative programs, it is safe for you not to run large programs at the same time. What is more, if you find system is creaking when listening to MP3, the problems are caused likely by low memory.
6. You should check and optimize system files regularly. You can click “
Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“Command Prompt” and then type “sfc” so as to check lost files and proofread versions. Besides, you can clear up disk and defragment disk regularly as well. It is also a good method to prevent blue screen problems by freeing up more disk space.
Since blue screen is really a disaster for all the users, you should learn to prevent such accident in advance rather than to fix blue screen problem hastily.
How to make your computer faster? Useful methods to speed up computer at startup
Dec 29th
I believe when using the computer, you have ever wondered how to make your computer faster, and it is a desire hope for all PC users to have a faster computer. Normally, a slow startup will make you crazy, sitting there without doing anything. Here, some methods will be discussed on how to get a faster startup speed.
To make your computer faster at startup, first of all, please open System Properties ( right click My Computer to select Properties), and then click “Advanced” tab, go to “Settings” within “Startup and Recovery” option, and then cancel the default checking of the two options within “System Startup”. But if you are using multiple-systems, please do not uncheck the option “Time to display list of operating system”.
After the above settings, please return to “Hardware” and then “Device Manager” to open “IDE ATA/ ATAPI Controller”. Here, please double click to open “Secondary IDE Channel”->go to Advanced Settings -> change the transfer mode of Device 1 and 2 to “DMA if available” ->change the Device Type to None if you can ->click OK to save your settings. Then, please set the Primary IDE channel with the above methods.
Secondly, it is necessary for you to slightly modify your Windows registry to speed up your computer. Please open Registry Editor ->click “Edit” on the top ->go to “Find” and type “AutoEndTasks” and click “Find Next. Once you have found it out, please click it to set its value data to “1”. Then, go to find and change the value data of “HungAppTimeout” and “WaitToKillAppTimeout” to 2000 or less than 2000. In this way, the computer will run much faster when starting up or shutting down the computer for it will automatically turn off the programs that have no response or reduce the waiting time for a non-responsible application.
After the above settings, you can reboot your computer to experience a completely faster startup speed. But to make your computer much faster, please do not miss the tips below: go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> click “Edit” within System Startup to add “/noguiboot”next to “fastdetect”. In this way, when starting up the computer, the annoying scroll bar will not display, which speeds up your computer. But if you really like the scroll bar, there is no need for you to take this step.
Last, to speed up a computer at startup, it is necessary for you to use a fixed IP address. Hence, there is no need for the system to search and get a randomly appointed IP address. You can right click My Network Places to select “Properties” -> click “Local Connection” to go to “Properties” -> Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to enter a fixed IP address.
In conclusion, you can easily make your computer faster. But to my own experience, a regular virus scan, disk cleanup and disk defragmentation can not be missed when trying to speed up your computer. Only with this simple maintenance in daily life, can you always enjoy a faster computer.
Improve Windows Speed—How to Improve Windows Speed by Improving Hard disk Performance
Dec 28th
Although Windows system can provide a bunch of useful and convenient service for users, it also has many shortcomings. For example, it is fast to consume system resource and users have to face shortage of disk space. In this article, you can learn some methods to improve Windows speed by improving hard disk performance.
First of all, you should check whether you have compressed disk or not. Since compressing disk can reduce computer performance seriously and slow down system speed for sure. Therefore, you should check whether you have used such function. Right-click the drive, click “General” to see if you have enabled to compress disk so as to free up disk space. It is better not to do that because it can decrease hard disk performance.
As a coin has two sides, though Windows-based systems are able to provide the service of running multiple tasks simultaneously, you have to tolerate the shortcoming of Windows operating system that is to manage files unclearly. Even sometimes you do not know whether this file is useful for computer or not. As time goes by, more and more files are increasing in the Windows directory, plus those swap and temporary files. They are consuming a lot of available disk space. When the available disk space is too little, there may be not enough space to support temporary and swap files which can slow down system running efficiency definitely.
More important, since you have restored and deleted much software frequently, it makes those available disk space fragmented. In this way, system has to spend more time in moving disk head when restoring and reading certain file. See, this is another cause of slow computer speed. In order to fix low disk space problem, you need to free up more space by deleting junks files such as temporary and swaps files in the C drive or on the Internet. And you can try to defragment disk by running defragmenting program of Windows or other third-party tools like “Advanced Defrag”.
And, if your computer is not updated enough for supporting SP3 or SP4 but definite too many partitions, it also drags the startup computer system. Therefore, it is advisable for you not to set too many partitions if your computer have not prepared very well for that. This is because Windows has to load every partition when starting up. As the partitions are becoming more and more, it also has to spend more and more time to operate them. So, you should not take the risk to set too many partitions which have little use but slow computer speed.
In order to increase Windows speed it is necessary for you to keep hard diskrunning normally. If not, it is vulnerable of slow speed. In this regard, you need to spare no effort to protect your hard disk.
Speed up your computer: How to get a faster computer soon?
Dec 28th
Do you want to get a faster computer which runs as quickly as the one you have just bought/ installed? If so, you can regain the lost speed and speed up your computer easily with the simple tips here.
First of all, to get a faster computer, you have to ensure that it is not infected by viruses / spyware. So a powerful and reliable anti-virus program becomes a must for the stable running of your computer. Moreover, you have to regularly update your virus database when available to make sure that you are always enjoying the latest one.
Secondly, defragment your computer to make all files on the hard disk always stay close together and contiguously. Normally, this becomes the physical reason for why the computer slows down with time. As we delete/ create/ update files, they will become more and more chaotic. Seriously, some individual files may be broken into many small parts and then located over the entire hard drive, resulting in fragmentation. Though it is still possible for us to read these scattered files, the outcome will slow down the computer as it will take some time for the hard disk head to read and then merge these separate parts together every time when you open a file. So to speed up your computer, please do remember to regularly defragment your computer. But it is recommended to first run the built-in Disk Cleanup before to clear the useless system junk files and free up more available hard disk space.
Thirdly, to speed up your computer quickly, what you need to do is to cancel some unnecessary startup entries. Under normal circumstances, Microsoft will automatically enable some services (do not need by lots of PC users) to load at Windows startup, which takes up a large amount of system resources when booting up the computer. Apart of this, when installing programs, some will also automatically add entries to run along with the Windows. All of these will greatly slow down the computer at startup. Therefore, an optimization of the startup items is vital. You can go to Start -> run -> type “msconfig”and press“Enter”to System Configuration Utility -> select “Startup”tab at the top. Here, you can simply cancel the unnecessary startup entries.
Last but not the least, to get a faster computer, you have to modify the Windows registry to increase startup and shutdown speed. You can directly open Registry Editor, and then find the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, change the value of [HungAppTimeout] to 200 and the value of [WaitToKillAppTimeout] to 1000. Then, please return to the below key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control, and change the value of the two string values mentioned above to 200 and 1000.
The tips above are what I always do in my daily life to get a faster computer with remarkable success. If you are annoying with your slow computer and trying to experience again the feeling when you bought the computer, please do not miss the tips above to speed up your computer. Believe me, they are really worth having a try!
Blue Screen Problems—How to Prevent Blue Screen Problems Caused by Low System Resource
Dec 25th
Have you ever encountered blue screen problems? When you are using computer smoothly, blue screen comes up abruptly. It is really bothering and even head ache for many users. Sometimes it is OK to restart computer but it does not work under some circumstances.
Like any other malfunction, blue screen can be divided into aspects: hardware and software. Now, I would like to introduce some methods to fix them in the regard of software and low system resource in particular.
In some cases, blue screen is caused by exhausted system resource. When computer is running a relatively large task or restoring or copying certain files, it is possible to lead to blue screen. Such accident is too abrupt for users to face it. This kind of blue screen is mainly due to insufficient resource of system, users and GDI.
In order to fix this problem, you need to open the “System Information” by clicking “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools” > “System Information” to see how many system resources are left. If the rest resource mentioned above is below fifty percent or less, it is likely to appear the problems such as error operation, blue screen and computer freezing up.
Therefore, you should try every method to reduce the expense of computer resource. You can reduce the number of loading programs and avoid running large programs at the same time. The so-called large programs refer to graphic, vocal and video software. For example, it is unnecessary to load task program, voice indictor, DOS driver program of graphic card and so forth.
You can free up disk space as well as save it.
There are many ways to free up disk space. First of all, free up space by deleting some temporary and swap files and cookies in the hard disk and Internet Explorer. And then, defragment your hard disk. Since too many fragments cram into the hard disk, it can expense much disk space without question.
To be honestly, blue screen is caused by various problems from hardware and software mainly, you should be quite careful to use you computer and do daily maintenance regularly so as to prevent blue screen problems.
How to maintain a healthy computer? Simplest things to maintain PC performance
Dec 25th
Currently, computers has been used widely, however, lots of PC users lack necessary knowledge to properly maintain PC performance. So there are kinds of troubles appearing during the usage of the computer such as system crashes, freezing-up. In this article, we will show you some simplest things that you can do in daily life to maintain a healthy computer.
Now, what people used most is Windows XP operating system, which is much better and advanced than Win 98. Actually, whether a computer can properly run or not, or whether it can always make full use of the internal or external resources to always work at peak performance, is greatly depended on whether it is well maintained. Under normal circumstances, one problem will also result in another follow-up chain-reaction problem, that is, once you can not timely correct the existing, it will cause more serious problem such as system crash. So it is a must for you to know how to properly maintain PC performance.
We know that there are many aspects that you can do to maintain your computer healthily, but once you have done the below tips, I believe it will return you a healthy and faster computer all the time.
1) Regularly clean up the Windows registry. When browsing the websites, there will be some junk files or empty registry keys left behind, or the download files will also make the windows registry bloated. So it is suggested that you should weekly clean up Windows registry and the system junk files. Only in this way, will the computer run properly.
2) Periodically defragment the computer. When we are writing files to the hard disk, it will allocate the files on the available hard disk space. As we always delete and store files, as times by, a same content will be scattered and then put in different corners of the hard disk, which results in defragments. Thought disk defragments will not do any harm to the computer, it will delay the disk visiting time and cause in system slowdown and sluggishness. So to maintain healthy PC performance, please do remember to weekly defragment your computer.
Here we go: go to “Start”, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Disk defragmenter. Please click “Disk Defragmenter” and then click the volume to be defragmented. It is recommended that you first click “Analyze” to see whether it is needed to defragment or not. Once the defragmented present is more than 10%, please immediately click “Defragment” to begin the defragment process. If you have never run a disk defragmenter before, you can skip the analysis step and directly click “Defragment” option to begin the defragment process. Moreover, do remember to defragment your computer when installing large applications / windows updates on your computer, or when storing large amount of files /folders on the computer, when there is only 10% available hard disk space.
3) Install anti-virus program to protect the computer, which can not be missed when trying to maintain a healthy computer. Once a computer is infected by viruses or spyware, it will cause system crashes or the loss of private data. So please do remember to install a powerful and reliable anti-virus program on your computer to protect your computer at any time. Besides, a frequent update of the virus database is needed, too!
4) To maintain healthy computer performance, what you also need to do is to ensure a good operating / running environment. This seems do not belong to the scope of system maintenance, but it plays very important role in the proper running of computers. Therefore, to ensure your computer always run at top performance, please make sure that the computer should be dampproof and dustproof.
In conclusion, as what you can see above, it is not difficult to maintain a healthy computer. With the simple steps above, I believe you can properly maintain computer performance and enjoy a healthy computer every day.