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Optimize Computer Performance—Useful Knowledge to Optimize Computer Performance in Terms of Programs
Dec 23rd
Have you found your computer performance is decreasing day by day? For example, it takes more and more time to open files, visit websites or play games. You may have heard a lot of methods to optimize computer performance. Today, in this article, I would like to introduce certain methods to improve computer performance in terms of programs.
Since some of programs in the Windows are extremely significant for computer, they should take priority of others. That is to say, such core program performance plays important in computer stable running. Well, how to enhance the performance of core programs in the Windows?
When there are several programs running in the Windows, it is normal that Windows may replace the memory which may not be used currently to hard disk in order to perform several programs at the same time within relatively little memory. However, the frequent replacement between memory and hard disk in the way can slow down the speed of performing programs for sure because system has to run come-and-go.
As for the core programs in the Windows, they have to face such replacement as well. If memory is too low when system is running certain program, Windows may put some of the core programs to the hard disk which are not used currently. Although programs are running smoothly in this way, it has to take more and more time to use these replaced programs again when you need them because system has to move them from hard disk to memory. In this regard, it may reduce system running efficiency without question.
Therefore if the memory is not large enough, you can set not to replace kernel programs and just let them always resident in the memory so as to optimize computer performance.
In order to do that, you can modify the registry. Click “Start”—“Run” and type “REGEDIT”. Then, you can open “Registry Editor”, find out “HKEY/LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CURRENTCONTROLSET/CONTROL/Session Manager/Memory/ Management” and set up or edit DWORD value named “Disable Paging Executive” in the right blanket and then change the key value as “1” which means you have forbidden replacing core programs while 0 means you can allow such operation. Do remember to clear up registry after doing changes in it.
If your computer memory is too low, you can set the value of virtual memory properly so as to maximize the space for running programs smoothly.
Program performance is very important for computer running. If you want to optimize computer performance, it is necessary for you to consider optimizing program at first.
Low Computer Performance—How to Improve Computer Performance
Dec 18th
Are you annoyed that your computer performance is not as good as before? Even you have used anti-virus or disk defragmentation, the computer performance is not improved obviously. Well, in this article, I would like to introduce some methods for you to improve computer performance.
First of all, delete system backup files. Windows system can record some information of certain hardware configuration and registry. As a matter of fact, it is unnecessary to restore that. If the system freezes up, you can use the GHOST to restore the backup. You can click “Start” > “Run” and type “sfc.exe” and press “Enter”. It can save hundreds of disk space.
You can also delete the drive backup in the directory of “windows\driver cache\i386”. Such backup files are useless for your computer if you have GHOST backup files. You can feel free to get rid of them so as to improve computer performance.
And set system variable. You can switch “My documentary” and Internet Explorer temporary files to other partitions which is good for improving system and hard disk speed. If you are using double systems, you had better put the Internet Explorer temporary files into the same folders which can save more disk space and speed up computer.
And you should change virtual memory to other disks which mean you can put the temporary files in the same partitions so as to facilitate disk defragmentation. Besides, it is better for you to put applications to other disks as well because it is good for reinstalling system.
Last but not least, close down the unnecessary service. Click “Start” > “Control Panel”, double-click “Management Tools” > “Service” and then you will find a list of serving items of which some have been started up while some have not. Right-click the serve you want to configure and click “Properties”. In the “General” tab, there are three choices for you: automatically, manually and disable. Automatically means Windows can startup this service voluntarily. Manually means you have to start it up by hand while disable shows that it is not allowed.
In the actual configuration, it is advisable for you to choose “manually” or “disable”. However some serves are indispensable for Windows running. If you close them down, the system may go crash probably. As for the function of every service, you can check it by double-clicking it. Choose the service and right-click it—“Properties”—“Stop” and change “Startup type” into “Manually” or “Disable”.
Low computer performance is really a head ache for most users. That is why you should learn more in order to keep your computer performance always in good state.
Optimize Windows Performance—Helpful Ways to Optimize Windows Performance
Dec 17th
Although your computer is working very well for you at present, it is necessary for you to learn some ways to optimize window performance. In this article, I would like to share some methods to change Windows default settings so as to optimize computer performance.
Disable Script Debugging.
When Internet Explorer has encountered script errors in the pages, it will report this error. Unless you are debugging the programs, it is impossible to rectify errors even you have known its specific reasons. Therefore, for most users, such function is rather good for nothing. You can forbid it for sure. Open Internet Explorer and choose “Tools” > “Internet Options” > “Advanced”. In this tab, scroll downward the list and find “Browsing” and tick “Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)”.
Refuse grouping similar taskbar.
Although Windows has provided such function to lessen the number of open windows, it is inconvenient to open many windows of same kind at a time. For example, when you are using certain communication software, if there are more than two friends chatting with you, it is rather fussy to do that. Because every time when you want to switch, you have to click the group and choose the friend, what is worse, the displaying icons are the same. If there are too many friends chatting at the same time, you may need to click one by one. In this regard, you had better just restore the previous state.
Clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Appearance and Themes” > “Taskbar and Start Menu”, in the “Taskbar” tab, cross out “Group similar taskbar buttons”. You can improve computer performance a lot by doing this.
Optimize program running.
Every running program has its own preferential order because all the programs have to take up processors resources. Normally, there are thirty-one preferential ranks in the computer. The kernel of system takes up the highest ranks which can guarantee the stability of system while the ordinary applications are put in the back ranks. As a matter of fact, you can adjust the preference of your own applications. In the “Windows Task Manager”, click “Process” and choose an application and then right-click it. In the popping up shortcut menu, you can choose the grades in the “Set Priority”. There are six grades: Real-time, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below Normal and Low. You can adjust the application higher or lower as you like. If you do not know the specific process of certain application, you can click “Application” tab and right-click a task and choose to switch to process. Then, you may find the detail of this application.
Close down system report.
When system goes crash, hard disk is creaking disturbingly because it is reading DUMP file which will be sent back to Microsoft. It is completely useless for the computer. Right-click “My Computer” and choose “Properties” > “Advanced” > “Startup and Recovery” > “Settings”, in the “System failure”, cross out “Write an event to the system log” and “Send an administrative alert” except “Automatically restart”.
In order to optimize Windows performance, it is advisable for you to adjust the default Windows settings because many are really good for nothing.
Slow Computer Problems—Two Methods to Help you Handle Slow Computer Problems
Dec 15th
Have you been puzzled that computer speed is not as fast as before? Have you been doubtful of yourself whether you have done any wrong doings that harms computer? In fact, you do not worry too much because any tiny change in the system may have influence on computer performance. And it is unavoidable to lead to various shifts when you use computer.
However, there is always a method to solve problems. Now, let me introduce some reasons of slow computer for you. After that you can enjoy computer high performance for sure.
Delete resident programs.
The so-called resident programs can be loaded automatically when computer is booting. Such resident programs can not only slow down computer speed but also expense computer resource and memory more quickly. Although those programs are quite useful for your computer, do you really want to use them at the expense of computer speed? As a matter of fact, you do not need to delete them but just disable to load when starting up computer.
And for system restore point, it has its own advantages and disadvantages. It can create general backup files for system and program files and set checking points for them. When system goes crash or is affected by virus, it is easy for you to use system restore function to set many checking point to protect your computer. The users can restore any normal system state by choosing the points.
Though it is quite useful, it is good for computer to turn it off in certain condition. For example, if the computer is affected, system restore may back up the virus as well. That is to say your computer is likely to go back to the affected state when using this function in the future. Besides, such points have to occupy disk space. When the hard disk space is too low, it is wise for you to close down this function. Therefore, you should learn how to enable and disable the “System Restore” function.
Disable the system restore function.
Right-click “My Computer” to choose “System Restore”, in this tab, you have two choices.
One is to disable it in all the partitions by choosing “Turn off system restore in all the drivers”. Another is to disable partially. You can pick the partition you want to disable and click “Settings”.
And as for enabling this you can cross out the options in the same way so as to start up system restore again. But it is advisable for you not to enable it. If your computer is affected by virus or goes crash, it is impossible to enter into system operating interface. How can you use system restore to solve all these problems? So, such function is so pompous that does little good to your computer.
By reading this article, you are supposed to learn two methods to solve slow computer problems. As for other problems in this regard, I think you need to learn more about how to solve computer problems.
Slow Computer? The Powerful Methods to Speed up Computer
Nov 12th
Have you been annoyed that you computer runs much slower than before? If you have tried to use anti-virus software to deal with it but in vain, it is necessary for you to read this article, because you will learn anther factor that hinders your computer performance.
Even though there is not any virus in your computer, the system also has to suffer from increasing piling up fragments which are produced by your daily deleting or moving files. In fact, such fragments are inevitable for the computer. So, what you really need to do is how to get rid of them completely. And, this is the article you can find the answer from.
Have you ever been prompted that the memory is low? If it is caused by insufficient available disk space, it is a must for you to defragment disk and remove junk files. To defragment disk is to help hard disk driver free up space. A defragmentation can list the fragments produced by temporary files, Internet cache files and useless uninstalled application files and delete all of them.
Sometimes such program is incapable of various junk and temporary files. So, you have to get rid of them manually by deleting the system and driver backup files.
You can also move system and user temporary folders out of system disk. Right-click “My Computer”—“Properties”, in the “System Properties” dialog box to choose “Advanced” to enter into the tab and then click “Environment Variables”. In the new dialog box, choose “Temp” in the “User variables” and Click “Edit”. In the “Edit User Variable” box, you can change the variable default value from “C:/Documents and Setting/User/Temp” to “X: /YYY/TEMP” (X means the disk name you want to move to; YYY mean the superior folder of “TEMP”). Then, click “OK” to return the previous box and change “TMP” in the same way. At last, restart the computer and all the changes become effective.
You can move Temporary Internet Files folders out of system disk.
You can click “Control Panel”—“Network and Internet Connections”–“Internet Options”—“General”–“Internet temporary files”—“Settings”—“Move folder” and choose the temporary folders to the disk in the “Browse for Folder” tab. It is advisable for you to delete the files in this folder at intervals
After removing the junk and temporary files, the next step is to defragment your hard disks. Since the disk fragments are the major causes of slow computer, it is undoubted to delete them immediately.
In order to remove them completely, you can choose the Disk Defragmenter of Windows in the “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”, of course. But, before you use that, I have to tell you that such program is really slow and time-consuming. If you do not want to waste your time on it, you had better put it aside and turn to a better defrag.
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Disk Defragment—Some Methods to Solve Defragmenting Problems
Nov 3rd
If you want to speed up your computer or optimize its performance, I am sure that you have tried to defragment disk once or more. It is true that defragmentation can help improve computer performance. But, during the defragmentation, some may have encountered certain problems. So, in this article, I will introduce the common methods to solve this problem.
If the system is reminding you that there is “chkdsk” running, it cannot defragment the disk. If this happens, you can solve it as follows:
Before defragmentation, you should clear up the disk. Click “My Computer”, right-click the drive needs to defragment and click “Properties”—“General” to choose disk, take C disk for example, in the dialog box of “Disk Cleanup for (C:)”, you can tick the files to delete. And you can check these files by clicking “View Files”. Then, click “OK” to clean up the C disk.
Secondly, you should scan the disk ahead of defragmentation. Also in the “Properties” tab, click “Tools”—“Check Now”—“Start”. After finishing the scan, you can exit this dialog box. Then, in this stage, you have to make sure that you have closed down all the running programs, the real-time virus monitor and screensaver in particular.
Now, you can start defragmentation. In the “Properties” tab of the disk you want to defragment, click “Tools”—“Defragment Now”—“OK”. The system will remind you after completing it.
Be careful that, you should not read and write any data during this process but just let your computer to finish it, because the computer is vulnerable to go crushed by any read-write operation. If it is hard to end defragmentation, you have to defragment it in the “Safe Mode”.
By following the steps mentioned above, I am sure that you can solve the common problems of defragmentation. But, if you have encountered any other specific trouble, I really recommend you to turn to a professional tool.
Defragment Disk—Necessary Facts about Defragmentation
Nov 2nd
Have you been annoyed that your computer is running slowly without any specific reason? If so, most people may choose to use anti-virus software or defragment the hard disk. For the latter method, if you still wonder why it is necessary to defragment disk, I am sure you can find perfect answer in this article.
After using your disk for a long time, because repeated write and delete files, the free sectors of the disk are scattered into discontinuous physical places to forbid restoring files continuously. So, if you read and write such files again, the disk head has to move back and forth frequently in different places and then reduce disk visiting speed. Excessive files are nothing but lower the computer performance, even shorten the usage of hard disk.
Like a room, your disk also needs to clean up regularly. Actually, defrag if to rewrite the files in the disk to keep files continuity. Only when you read and write the hard disk too often that can harm the disk, but defragmentation does not harm hard disk. I believe that most users may not defragment once a day and do not do that for a long time. So, if you defragment once or twice a week, you do not have to worry about the defragmentation does harm to the hard disk, instead, it can keep the read-write speed in a best state.
Here, I would like to explain how defragmenter works in rather plain way. Commonly, when running a program, the disk head of the drive has to search necessary files for this program first, read data and transfer data to disk high speed Cache and memory. If you put the relevant files of applications in the successive space, it will takes less time for disk head to search.
All in all, after learning such useful knowledge about defragmentation, I am sure you will agree that defragmenting disk is helpful in speeding up computer speed. You can get more information by clicking here.
Slow Speed? Defragment Now
Oct 31st
No one hopes that his computer may run slower and slower. But it is unavoidable that the computer is bound to encounter decreasing performance, if you do not take any action to improve it.
Therefore, besides using anti-virus software to detect the system, you can also use some other methods to solve it. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Do you find your computer is running slower and slower? But, do you know that even you do not perform any operation, the disk is still working for you as usual? In fact, it is because there are a large number of fragments produced by using the computer.
To be correctly, the fragments should be called files fragments. They are dispersed into different places of the disk discontinuously. In other simple word, any programs’ read-write operation may create fragments in the disk. And in the daily usage, PC users set up, delete and update the files in the disk one after another. As time goes by, there are numerous files fragments heaping which have serious impact on computer performance, waste disk space and lessen its usage.
When running the system may apply some disk spaces to virtual memory. You can right-click “My Computer” to choose “Properties”, in the “Advanced” tab, click “Settings” of “Performance” and then click “Advanced”, you will see how many spaces are used for virtual memory. And, when the system is running, such spaces are occupied and the defragmentation cannot do anything to them. But do not worry, they have little influence on the system performance. It is advisable for you to defragment in the “Safe Mode”, because it is faster to do it.
By doing this, you can enjoy the computer high speed again. Well, if you also want to enjoy the high speed of defragmentation, you can click here to find the best answer.
Defragment Disk—Why Cannot Continue Defragmentation?
Oct 27th
It is unavoidable for any user to defragment disk as long as he wants to improve his computer performance. But, during the defragmentation, a mess of unexpected problems hinder to complete the task perfectly.
Have you encountered that you cannot continue to defragment disk when it is carrying on certain progress? If so, you cannot afford to miss this article, because it will tell you how to solve this problem completely.
When defragmentation is conducting from 1% to 10%, it is the stage of detecting drive programs and reading its information actually. After ten percent of defragmentation, it just begins to defragment from here. If the system is plunged into vicious loop, it is likely because of remaining programs piling in the memory. For example, the anti-virus software or screensaver program disturbs the normal disk scanning and holds back the program to run on the rails which drags the system into vicious loop. And, how to defragment smoothly?
First of all, it is a must to close down all the remaining programs before defragmenting disk. Such programs make system read and write disk repeatedly so that hinder the process of defragmentation.
Second, if defragmenting still can not work after shutting down programs, you should try to detect disk thoroughly by using the order of “SCANDISK” including test surface to find whether there is any problem of disk itself.
Then, if users have not cleared up the fragments in the disks for a long time, it really takes a lot of time to continue the defragmenting process from ten percent to eleven percent. You can click to display the information to open system operation process to see whether the operation falls into vicious loop.
By following the above steps, you can get rid of such head ached problems. And, if you have any other problem, you can click here to find more information about defragmentation.
Defragment Disk—Useful Knowledge about Defragmentation
Oct 27th
Have you even wondered that why it is necessary to clear up disk regularly? It is the same that if your room is in a mess, you really need to clear it up. Since the disk is the room for the files, you are bound to defragment it on time.
Well, in this article, I will tell you the useful knowledge about defragmentation in hope to help you solve the problems in this regard.
First of all, defragmentation is quite helpful for optimizing system performance. The file layout on the disk has great influence on I/O performance. And, excessive and scattered fragments in the disk can damage computer performance seriously. Although Windows XP can re-lay certain files automatically to improve the performance, in the default condition, it is not the necessary system routine to do it and only contains a small part of the files. It can not defragment completely. That is the why you should clear up fragments specially rather than let it done by computer itself.
In this regard, you should perform complete defragmentation immediately after installing the system or uninstalling any program. In the default condition, Windows XP may defragment partly once three days. And the moved files will be written into Layout.ini files which are based on the current usage of disk to adjust physical positions of the files. So, Windows XP is supposed to arrange the physical files in the disk in the mentioned order. Its routine is in the C:\Windows\Prefetch.
System can defragment automatically when there is not so much work to do. At this moment, system will choose the files in the Layout.ini preferentially and defragment them partially. They are the base of defragmentation program to move files.
All in all, it is a must to defragment disk regularly. if you find it is a rather tedious work, you can turn to a useful tool which can save your time and energy a lot
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