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Optimize Computer Performance—How to Optimize Computer Performance in All-round Ways
Jan 5th
Since you have been using computer for a long time, it is undeniable that computer performance is reducing day by day, such as computer is running slower and slower, or an increasing number of junks are piling up in the computer.
If such problems have occurred in your computer, it is an alarm that you should take some actions to fix them so as to optimize computer performance. Well, that is what I want to tell you in this article.
1. Clean and optimize registry
When Windows boot up, system needs to read data in the registry and put them in the ram temporarily. Windows spend most time in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary to clean and optimize registry. As for how to do that, you can turn to certain optimizer to help you.
2. Delete excessive dynamic library link files.
In the Windows-based operating systems, there are many dynamic library link files in the system subdirectory. Among them, some are shared by many files while some are quite useless. In order to free up disk space and improve computer speed, you can delete them on condition that you are skillful in computer technology.
3. Maintain system regularly.
If you have put too many games and applications with lot of old and useless data, it is no doubt computer is running slower and slower as well as booting computer.
Therefore, you should maintain computer completely at proper intervals. For example, to defragment disk is really a good way to improve computer performance. Besides, it is a must to defragment the disk where you put systematic programs. This is the right way to speed up starting up order of Windows correctly.
4. Expand virtual memory
If you have large disk, it is quite suitable for you to set virtual memory. You can point to a disk that is seldom used and then fix maximum and minimum values which is twice as that of physical memory. In this way, when virtual memory is applying hard disk, the value does not have to change unstably. Instead, system can apply fixed space as virtual memory so as to speed up read-write speed.
What is more, it is advisable for you to set the values after defragmentation because virtual memory should be put in a continuous space without any fragment. Only by doing this, it can play greater role in optimizing computer performance.
If you are eager to optimize computer performance, you should follow the steps one by one because I have introduced the main causes and solutions to improve computer performance in all-round way.
Improve Computer Speed—Tips to Improve Computer Speed Manually
Jan 4th
It is natural that computer may run slower and slower since you have been using it for a long time. Have you ever tried to speed up your computer by many methods which are from friends or Internet? Now matter they are useful or not, you should read this article because I will tell you some tips to improve computer speed manually.
Many users are fans of using beautiful themes or wallpapers on the desktop. However, you have to pay for these beautiful things, that is, your computer must spend a large number of ram to support the extravagance in using resource. And excessive icons can slow down computer as well. Because system has to check whether it is needed to start up theme and then to load it, this is the way that so many themes take up a lot of memory.
At the same, system has to search and verify the validity of desktop shortcuts. That is to say, more shortcuts are there, more time the system has to expend. Therefore, it is advisable not to set themes. If you really want to do that, a piece of beautiful wallpaper is quite enough. And, you are able to classify these desktop shortcuts and put them into specific folder. By doing this, it is not only easy to administrate but can also speed up loading.
Then, since Anti-virus programs are hassles for computer as well, you can remove some of them if you have installed a lot of such programs. Some anti-virus software has provided to scan system when computer is booting. Well, the shortcomings of such function are overwhelming its advantages, because it may cost a lot of time without question.
As a matter of fact, if you have opened the real-time monitoring function and checked system regularly, it is unnecessary to scan the system when computer is starting up. You had better forbid such function so as to improve computer speed.
Besides, it is better not to set any memory optimizer software to work automatically when computer is booting. Even though computer administrates memory when starting up, it can do little help to computer but slow down starting up speed greatly. In fact, Windows has provided scientific and efficient administration to the memory and you do not need to do that by yourself.
Last but not least, do not forget to defragment disk regularly no matter using Windows programs or any other defragmenting programs. It can help you improve computer speed a lot.
In order to improve computer speed, you also need to clear registry and hard disk as well. Most importantly, it is to clear up computer regularly to keep computer in a good state with high speed.
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.
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.
Computer Problems—How to Fix Certain Computer Problems?
Dec 14th
Nowadays it is a must for users to learn how to fix computer problems instead of reinstalling computer every time when encountering computer problems. That is what I want to share with you in this article—how to fix certain computer problems.
In the first place, you can forbid the function of restart automatically
If Windows encounters a fatal problem, it may start up system again in order to solve it. But, if such problem happens during starting up Windows, the operating system has to fall into trap of restarting again and again without running normally. Under such circumstance, you need to forbid this automatic startup function. The specific function is as follows: when starting up the system and seeing “Please select the operating system to start”, you should press F8 to open the menu of Windows advanced options and choose to forbid starting up system automatically when it goes awry and then press “Enter”. Now, if there is any problem in the Windows, it will give you a message of stopping which can be used to diagnose problems.
And then you can learn how to restore backup. If you can not repair Windows but have recent backup, you can restore system from backup medium. The methods to restore system are based on the backup tools you use. Therefore, you should renew system by the prompts of backing up tools.
Besides, you can shorten starting up time. In the “Start” menu, click “Run” and type “Msconfig” in the popping up dialog box. You can enter into “System Configuration” window. In the “General” tab, you can choose to startup selectively. By doing this, you can find all the items that the computer will load when starting up. Although the loading programs can improve computer performance and add a lot of functions, they may delay starting up time. That is to say, you can shorten starting up time by forbidding loading certain programs when booting computer. And this is a good way to prevent the problems which happen probably during this process.
If you find your computer is running slower and slower and cannot find any specific problems, I earnestly suggest you that it is necessary for you to defragment disk. Though defragmentation can help you reallocate disk fragments and free up disk space, you should do that properly since too much defragmentation is also harmful to computer.
All in all, as computer is such a complex machine that requires careful and cautious operations, you need to learn more methods to fix computer problems.
Speed up Windows—the Useful Methods to Speed up Windows
Dec 11th
When using Windows XP system, you may find the system is running slower and slower as the passing of time. It is right that you can reinstall system. But you have to take one thing into consideration that you have to reinstall many applications as well. It is rather disturbing. So how do you speed up Windows on condition that you do not have to reinstall system? You can find the answers in this article.
Let Windows XP close down within one second. Windows system is too bulky to close down efficiently. You have to spend thirty to fifty seconds to do that completely. But you can speed up your Windows by changing some items in the registry.
Find “HKEY/CURRENT USER/Control Panel/Desktop and modify the value of “Wait To Kill App Timeout” as 1000 which means it just need one second to close down programs.
Change “Hung App Timeout” as 200, it takes half of second to wait for error programs.
Change the value of “Auto End Tasks” as 1 so that system can close down the stopped responding programs automatically.
Close down stopping responding programs automatically. Sometimes, Windows may remind you that certain program is stopping responding. It is really disturbing. As a matter of fact, you can let it turn off automatically by altering registry. You can click “Start” > “Run” and type “regedit” so as to enter into “Registry Editor” and then click “HKEY /CURRENT USER/Control Panel/Desktop” orderly. You can change the numerical value of “Auto End Tasks” as “1” and click “OK” then restart computer.
Sector is the basic unit in the computer hard disk. A file usually takes up certain sectors. As you use hard disk for a long time such as adding, changing and deleting files, it is unavoidable to create a lot of discontinuous sectors so that disk head has to spend more time in reading and writing the data. This can lead to slow computer. That is why you need to defragment disk regularly. You ought to perform defragmenting program to rearrange those discontinuous files in order so as to optimize Windows. It is better for you to do that based on the usage of hard disk in your computer.
At the same time, you can reduce the loading items when starting computer. Many applications add system startup group forcibly when you install them in the computer. Therefore, every time the computer starts up, they may run automatically. It can not only delay starting time but also take up a lot of system resource. It is advisable for you to reduce such items in order to speed up computer.
By doing the methods, you can speed up Windows without question. Since slow computer is really a head ache for all the users, you have to be very careful in daily operation.
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.
Computer Maintenance—How to Maintain Hard Disk Correctly
Nov 30th
As one of most durable fixings among computer components, hard disk can be used for six to seven years on condition that it is preserved well. Now, I will tell you how to maintain hard disk correctly.
The hard disk maintenance can be divided into two aspects. From point of view of hardware, it is better to use case, especially for those computer players. Although putting computer on the desk can help heat radiation and uninstall, it can harm computer hardware as well and hard disk in particular. Since hard disk is working with high speed, any unstable wave may lead to furious collision between disk head and Disc. And, you should avoid high temperature when using computer because it can affect computer working normally and bring damages to hard disk.
At the same time although some users know correct hard disk maintenance can do good to computer, their hard disks are still suffered from damages due to improper operations.
Though they have learned regular defragmentation can do good for hard disk from websites, they do not realize how “regular” means. If they think it can speed up computer when defragmenting hourly, it is completely wrong. As a matter of fact, frequent disk defragmentation may drag disk using efficiency. In the long run, it falls short of improving computer speed, even run counter to the desire.
What is good for hard disk and computer is to defragment properly. If you do not defragment disk for a long time, an increasingly number of disk fragments are piling in the hard disk. Then, when you visit certain of them in the future, it may take much more to read these files. Since time goes by, it can reduce files visiting speed and also harm disk tracks probably.
And when copying files, some prefer to copy several files at one time but do not know that the hard disk is overburdening, since you may find hard disk creaking loudly. Therefore, you should use anti-virus software to protect your hard disks, for example CIH may destroy the partitions in the hard disk and result in the loss of data.
Besides, do not try to use disk compress technology in the system tools. At present, disk capacity is large enough to support the computer running. It is really unnecessary to save disk space by compressing hard disks. What is more, it can slow down disk read-write data speed and affect disk usage indirectly. If you urgently want to free up disk space, it is better for you to get rid of junk files such as temporary and swap ones.
Many users do not form a good habit of closing down computer. They are hurry to pull out electric power without shutting down computer completely, even some turn off switch. However, the computer has not been replaced yet. Therefore, you should pay closed attention to whether hard disk indicator is on or not when turning off computer. It is a good habit for you in order to maintain your computer well.
In this regard, you may find it is very important to form a good habit of maintaining computer correctly, because it has influenced on hard disk and computer performance. It is a must for you to shape such good habit so as to guarantee your computer can work for you efficiently.
Hard Disk Maintenance—How to Protect Hard Disk by Defragmentation
Nov 26th
Although your PC is still working very well for you, you can not treat it lightly. Computer is like all the other machines that needs careful and regular maintenance. Since there are many ways to optimize PC performance, I would like to introduce one of methods to help you improve computer performance.
As hard disk is storage of computer, you should learn how to do daily maintenance. When using computer, it is unavoidable for you to delete or copy a large number of files. Such operations are the main cause of producing plenty of fragments. And every complete file is restored separately in the disk. If system wants to fetch a file, it has to search the different parts of this file. So the computer has to spend more time in reading the file and increase operating time. Therefore, you should defragment your disks regularly so as to optimize PC performance.
You can use the defragmenting program of Windows to help you. Such tool can rearrange the files continuously so as to speed up disk reading and writing. It includes two functions: one is to clear up fragments and another is to start up optimization of items. Although they are quite practical, it really takes too much time to defragment completely. To be honestly, long-time and frequent defragmentation can do harm to disk and shorten the usage of hard disk as well. In this regard, I recommend you to use appropriative disk defragmenting software, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Defragmentation is not only a good way to protect hard disk but also can optimize computer performance. It can collect those fragments and arrange orderly in the disks. At the same time, you should also make proper defragmenting schedule for disks. It is no doubt that too much defragmentation can do harm to disk and computer as well.
And, since using computer for a long time, there are certain troubles hidden in the disk. The lost of system files or damaged data are probably caused by bad disk tracks. Physical bad tracks may expand as more and more frequent read-write operations of disk head and result in an increasing number of bad tracks. At last, this disk with such bad tracks all over is unable to use any more. So, it is wise for you to back up important data in the disk as long as you find any bad track in it.
Well, bad hard disks track can divide into two kinds—soft and hard. You can fix the former problem by using certain software and continue to use the disk. But as for the latter one, it may expense certain disk space, even make the whole disk invalid. How to fix the two problems mentioned above? You can solve soft bad tracks by running the disk restoring tool of Windows or operating high level format to the disk, for example, you can right-click the disk drive and choose “Format” or right-click “My Computer”—“Manage”—“Disk Management”. But for hard disk problem, you have to turn to certain tools to help you.
In this regard, if you are not so skillful enough, you had better use special software to solve such problem.
Hard Disk Maintenance—Correct Methods to Maintain Hard Disk
Nov 25th
Even though hard disk is not the most important part of computer, you still need to pay close attention to maintain hard disk. If it goes wrong, you can not do any operation to files any more. So in this article, I will tell you How to use your hard disk in order to reduce bad tracks.
If you want to protect hard disk, the proper way is to protect it in advance rather than learn how to remove those bad tracks when the problem has happened. This is the correct way to expand the usage of hard disk.
First of all, you cannot turn off computer abruptly when the hard disk is still working.
Generally, working disks are in the high speed running. If the electric power is closed down during using computer, it probably leads to furious attrition between disk head and drive surface and mangle hard disk. Therefore, you should avoid abrupt computer shutdown as possible as you can. When closing down computer, you have to pay attention to whether disk indicator is on or not. Only after it turns off completely and finishes read-write operations, can you turn computer power off.
Secondly, you should keep dust away from hard disk.
Dust does great harm to hard disk. In the dusty environment, it is vulnerable for disk to absorb the dusty granule in the air. And such rubbish will influence the heat radiation and make temperature in the circuit increase greatly. Besides, dust can absorb water and erode electric circuitry in the internal hard disk to result in problems without rhyme and reason. Therefore, you must keep environment clean and reduce the humidity and dust in the air. It is a must for you not to open hard disk by hand. Otherwise, dust in the air can enter into your hard disk to damage disk surface or disk head when it performs reading or writing.
Third, you should prevent too heat in the hard disk.
Temperature can affect hard disk usage as well. When working, disks may produce and radiate heat for sure. Too high or low temperature can lead to many hard disk problems. It is advisable for you not to let hard disk get closed to any strong magnetic field and keep the air dry
You should defragment disk regularly.
In the hard disk, if you set or delete files continually, it can produce a pile of fragments. As those files gather too many day by day, it takes much more time to visit certain file in the future which can not only slow down visiting efficiency but also damage disk tracks. As a result, it is a must for you to defragment disk at proper intervals, no matter you use Windows defragmenting program or certain third-party tools. After defragmentation, you had better run hard disk restoring program to fix those iffy tracks.
As all the methods mentioned above, you may find that only the defragment disk has to apply certain tool rather than protect by computer itself. In order to maintain hard disk correctly, you cannot be too careful to use computer.