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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.
Slow Computer—How to Increase Computer Speed
Dec 9th
Do you find that you have to spend more and more time in opening a file or web? If so, you have to realize that it is time to do some things so as to increase computer speed. Using anti-virus software should be your first choice and then you can consider doing some changes in the computer to solve slow computer problems.
In the “Advanced” tab of system properties, you can adjust the visual effects in the settings. Here, you can choose to adjust best performance or appearance based on your computer configuration. If the hardware configuration is rather shabby, it is better for you to choose best performance so as to run system smoothly. But if you have supreme configuration, well, you feel free to open all the Windows XP visual effects and to enjoy it.
In the “Advanced Options”, you can set to optimize processor and memory preferentially. And when running applications, the system can put memory and CPU ahead of programs which are good for speeding up computer.
And if you do not have any special requirement to your computer, please do not startup the function of “Automatically Update”. It is unnecessary to update certain programs by Microsoft and you have to spend much time and space to download those useless things. Besides, you should not tick “Remote Desktop” and “Remote Assistance” because the startup of these two functions leaves holes for potential problems that hackers enter into your computer easily. Therefore, in order to protect your privacy, it is better for you to forbid the two options.
When talking about network optimization, it refers to optimize the Internet Explorer mainly. You can optimize network in all-round way. In the “Internet Options”—“General” tab, you can set the home page as “about: blank” to open Internet Explorer quickly. And, you are bound to delete all the Internet temporary files to free up disk space. But at the same time, it may take more time to visit websites. So, you had better create an Internet temporary folder based on your available disk space capacity and 10MB to 30MB is the best value. Moreover, you should form a good habit of clean up history records regularly. By doing this, others do not know what websites you have visited so that you can protect your own privacy maximally. Or, you can set the date of history record as “0” day that system can delete the records automatically.
And, you ought to set the security level higher in the security settings and close down certain dangerous controls. In this way, you can reduce the probability of being attacked by virus or spyware.
After doing following all the methods, it is advisable for you to defragment disks thoroughly, since there may be a large number of disk fragments in the hard disks.
All in all, you may have found that there are many useless startup functions in the computer which are the main cause of slow computer. Therefore, if you want to increase computer speed, it is wise for you to get more information in this regard.
Disk Space—Useful Knowledge about Disk Space
Nov 11th
Are you always annoyed by the popping up prompts of “Low Disk Space”? Even though your computer still can run smoothly, the system is reminding that untiringly. Are you tired of it?
Before taking any action to solve this problem, you should know why Windows system is designed to remind you that disk space is low.
In the Windows system, Microsoft tries to add various prompt in hope that can prevent users from being annoyed. The “Low Disk Space Notification” is one of them. Useful as it is, it is really disturbing in most cases.
First of all, let us see why you are prompted by that.
As its name suggests, “Low Disk Space Notification” is to remind users when the disk space is going to run out. As for the main system drivers, it is especially important to protect system from losing data because of overstaffing disk space. If this happens during the main system drivers working, it can result in overwhelming system swap files. At the same time, the system can not install or exit programs normally. What is worse, the running out disk space can lead to system freezing up and data loss.
Since free disk space is reducing day after day, Windows may remind you more and more frequently. When available disk space is less than 200MB, Windows remind you every time when you start computer and once four hours on condition that it is less than 80MB till your available space is over that. More terrible, you have to bear the interference once five minute when the space is below 50MB.
You may not know that too much low disk space notification can reduce working efficiency and worsen computer performance, because the system have to spend more time in detecting free disk space which should be supposed to complete other tasks.
Although “Low Disk Space Notification” is designed to remind users with goodwill, it is annoying if it pops up too often. Sometimes your computer is still running very well, but it reminds you that the disk space is low which really interfere in using the computer.
On the other hand, if the computer is running out of space, it is useful for you to take some actions to solve it. Just as I mentioned above, since there is not enough space to support the running of computer, its performance can reduce without question. So, how to free up disk space?
Besides clearing up junk files, do not forget to defragment disk completely. Too much fragments scattered in the disk can hold back computer to run fast as before. And, defragmenting program can gather them together and arrange again so as to free up space in the disk. This is a good method to free up disk without changing any data in the computer. For more information, click here