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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.
Protect Your Computer—the Main Causes of Blue Screen and How to Solve Them Correctly
Nov 27th
During using computer, if such accident happens, it is really a disaster for those beginners. But, do not worry. If you have learned the radical causes of blue screen, it may not be a problem for you any more. This is what I want to introduce to you in this article.
In fact, blue screen problem is mainly connected with memory capability, CPU frequency, CD-ROM, hard disk fragments and so forth. Since many reasons account for computer blue screen, I would like to explain some of them from the aspect of hardware. That is how to solve blue screen caused by hardware problems.
The low virtual memory leads to algorithm errors of system multitask.
Virtual memory is a special method that is designed for solving insufficient system resource in the Windows systems. Normally, it requires remain space in the hard disk is two to three times than that of physical memory. However, some computer fans would like to cram excessive stuff into their hard disks in order to make full use of them and turn a blind eye to the rigorous requirement of Windows that there should be enough disk space to support virtual memory. Therefore, due to low hard disk space, virtual memory can not run correctly and is troubled with algorithm errors which result in blue screen probably.
Well, it is rather easy to deal with such problem. You are supposed to delete the temporary and swap files produced by system and not to put too many files into hard disk so as to free up disk space. Or you can configure virtual memory manually. You can change the default address of virtual memory to other logical disks. In this way, computer can shun blue screen caused by insufficient virtual memory.
There is too small available disk space or too many fragments.
Generally speaking, the available space in the hard disk should be above of certain value, since different systems require values differently. Otherwise, the blue screen problem is likely linked to the size of available space. In addition, if there are too many fragments in the disk, it can lead to blue screen easily. Therefore, it is necessary to defragment disk at proper intervals.
You can turn to Windows defragmenting program, of course. But, if you want to speed up defragmentation and protect hard disk as well, I recommend you to use special defragmenting software called “Advanced Defrag”. You will satisfy with this program for sure.
CD-ROM is opened abnormally when reading disk.
Blue screen happens when the CD-ROM is reading the disk and is being operated mistakenly. But, such problem has little influence on system running. What you need to do is to use CD or press ESC. And everything is OK.
All in all, since blue screen can resulted from many reasons, you should protect your computer in all-round way and improve computer knowledge as much as you can.
Optimize PC Performance—How Protect Hard Disk
Nov 26th
If you hope the computer can always work like new, you are supposed not to be too lazy to maintain your computer. As the storage of the computer, the hard disk like other computer parts also needs your careful maintenance. In this article, I would like to tell you how to protect hard disk in order to optimize PC performance.
In the first place, you should try to prevent bad tracks in the hard disk.
When starting up computer, it is impossible to pilot the hard disk even you use floppy disk or CD to start up computer, you can see those driver letter but cannot do any operations to this partition. If so, you should be aware that bad track is in it probably. Any bad track can damage hard disk, even it is just a cluster. On such condition, you should distinguish what kind of the bad track is and solve them respectively—run Scandisk program or replace and maintain it with retailer or manufacturer.
Secondly, you should pay close attention to guard against virus and Trojan programs. It is known to all that they are quite disaster for every part of computer. What is more, hard disk is the main objective of computer attacking virus. So, you should make use of anti-virus software to get rid of those viruses and maintain and back up important data and update such protecting programs in time. It is advisable for you not to use any unknown applications and to check virus and Trojan ahead of running them. The viruses are really headache for computer. You should prevent them from attacking the disks.
Thirdly, defragmentation is a good choice.
After using computer for a lot of time, due to the restoring and deleting of files, the files and available space have to become scattered in the hard disk. If you do not defragment them, the disk may reduce its restoring efficiency. And disk defragmenting program can put the files into continuous space and make the disk available space tidy and clean without taken up by fragments disorderly. You can start up the defragmenting program in the Windows or turn to third-party tools, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Besides, you can let hard disk brainpower at rest.
If you can keep such function closed, it can do great help to facilitate hard disk working and expand using time. You can click “Control Panel” and choose “Power Management”. It is OK for you to set the time as fifteen minutes in the “Close down hard disk” column. It is better for you to protect the hard disk.
And for you, you should form a good habit of closing down computer correctly. The improper power shutdown can lead to violent attrition between disk head and disk surface. You should follow the normal computer closing down procedure. Any mistake or error in this regard may do harm to disk.
All in all, you should give your attention to daily hard disk maintenance. You can learn more ways to optimize PC performance.
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.
Slow PC Speed—How to Optimize Computer Performance
Nov 23rd
How to optimize your computer? It is really a question for most users. It is right that sometimes the computer viruses make trouble in the computer. Or you just need to use very simple methods to speed up your computer. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Here, in this article I will mainly introduce the method of defragmenting disk to optimize computer performance.
Disk defragmentation is a process that combines and reunites the file fragments in the computer hard disk. Disk defragmentation is a tool that can help you rearrange the data and reunite the file fragments so as to accelerate computer speed efficiently. Since you restore, change or delete files in the hard disk, it can perform defragmentation to it. Normally, if you change your files, the altered information may not be put at the same place as the original ones. What is more, other changes may be put into different places. The empty space among those fragments can not restore any file. As time goes by, the files have to be separated into various parts and the space they have taken can not restore any file.
In fact, there are two ways to open disk defragmenting program in the Windows. First, you can click “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. Or, you can click “Start”—“Control Panel”—“Performance and Maintenance”—“Management Tools”—“Computer Management”, you can also find the defragmenting program in it. No matter how you open such program, you should analyze disk ahead of defragmentation.
And if there is something wrong with the disk, the defragmenting program can restore errors and problems at the very beginning, such as broken tracks. As a matter of fact, the function of disk running is to read and write. If these two working methods have any bad influence on your disk, to be honestly, the disk itself must have been broken already and it should not have any problem with defragmenting program. As for protecting disk, you had better not make collision among them and not lower the format of disk.
Besides defragmenting disk, you can try other ways to improve computer speed. Some programs in the computer can reduce PC speed when starting up computer. If you want to check problems in this regard, I suggest you to start computer under “Safe Mode”. Such mode is the original way to start up computer. In fact, starting “Safe Mode” is much slower than that of “Normal Mode”. But, if the condition is on the contrary–the former is faster than the latter, you have to take it seriously. It must be something wrong with the programs when you startup computer.
All in all, disk defragmentation is really a good method to optimize computer performance. If you are eager to solve this slow PC speed problem, you can not miss every way to achieve that goal.
Slow Computer Speed—How to Improve Computer Speed
Nov 23rd
Slow computer speed is really disturbing for most users. Every time you want to open a file or a website, it takes longer and longer time to do that. In most circumstances, using anti-virus software is your first choice. If the computer cannot work fast as you think, you still do not have to reinstall system.
Since there are many ways to solve slow computer speed, I would like to share my experiences in improving computer speed.
First of all, you can close down some useless functions.
Optimize virtual memory
If there are two different sizes of disks in your computer and one is faster than another in reading and writing speed, you can use the faster one as virtual memory manually. But you should be very cautious to do that. If you are still a green hand in computer, I suggest you to let Windows system give you a big hand. In the “Control Panel”, click “Performance and Maintenance”—“Virtual Memory”, you can set the maximized and minimum values according to the real condition of your computer.
You can forbid using active desktop. Although it can display Web groupware, such function has great influence on CPU processing speed obviously and is the main cause of decreasing computer performance. You can right-click desktop to choose “Properties”—“Web”. In this tab, you can choose to cross out the functions of viewing active desktop by Web and IE channel. Or you can alter the registry to prohibit such function completely. Its information is hidden in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, and you can alter it to close down active desktop perfectly.
Forbid some peripheral equipment temporarily. When starting up Windows, system has to load and check certain peripheral equipment. You can right-click “My Computer” and click “Properties” to open “System Properties”. In this tab, you feel free to delete the equipment and restart the computer. It is OK.
Besides, after using computer for a lot of time, because of the restoring and deleting of files, the files and available space can become scattered in the hard disk. If you do not deal with them, the disk may reduce its restoring efficiency. And disk defragmenting program can put the files into continuous space and make the disk available space tidy and clean without taken by fragments disorderly. So, defragmentation is quite necessary for you. You can startup it in the Windows.
Last but not least, it is known to all that the registry is the database of computer which is like the heart of human. That is to say, you change the default computer condition by altering the registry. No matter how many changes you have done to registry, you have to be clear about that, the more changes you do, the more fragments in the registry. That is to say, you do not only have to defragment disk, but also the registry.
So, you need a powerful defrag that not only help you defragment disk but also the registry. By learning this article, you can improve computer speed by various ways.
Optimize PC Performance—How to Improve Computer Performance Manually?
Nov 19th
Do you find your computer can not work efficiently as it is supposed to do? But all the running parts are still working very well and not attacked by any virus. In fact, it is a computer alarm that you should do something to maintain your computer.
No matter you are a computer novice or veteran, it is necessary for you to learn some methods to improve computer performance in order to guarantee computer to work well for you.
If you always visiting the websites or downloading files or videos from Internet, you should know that it is a good habit to clear away a bunch of temporary files which are left by browsing websites. Such files are inevitable but you can get rid of them manually. You can open IE browser and choose “Internet Options”. In the dialog box, click “General” tab and click “Delete Files” in the “Temporary Internet files” column. And in the “Delete Files” dialog box, tick “Delete all offline content” and click “OK”. By doing this, you can free up disk space a lot and optimize PC performance.
You can close down devices that you do not use any more.
In fact, Windows system can install drive programs for all the devices as many as possible. Such behavior is good will but it slows down computer startup speed and takes up a lot of system resource. In order to solve this problem, you can open “Device Manager” by right-clicking “My Computer”—“Properties”—“Hardware” and click “Device Manager” in the column. In the tab, you can double-click the device you want to turn off, such as the function of “Printer Port”. In the “General” tab, you choose “Do not use this device (disable)” and restart the computer. All of these new settings go into effect immediately. If you want to start them up, you can change in the same tab.
If your hard disk is using NTFS file system, you can consider starting up the compressing function of NTFS. Choose the drive you want to compress and in the “General” tab, you can choose to compress disk so as to save disk space. In this way, you can free up twenty percent of disk space more or less. You had better compress C system disk in the “Safe Mode” because it can be more efficient for disks.
And besides, you can clear up the pre-reading files functions. Although pre-reading function of Windows XP can speed up computer, it just can work well for a very short time. Since the files in the prefetch folder are becoming larger and larger, it will cost system a lot of time to search data or files. Therefore, you should delete them regularly.
Among all the methods, here I recommend you to defragment disks. Defragmentation is the easiest way to operate. You can use the defragmenting program of Windows with a few of clicks in more than an hour. Or you can turn to professional defrag named “Advanced Defrag”. By doing this new tool, you just need to wait for few minutes by few clicks.
Since there are many methods to optimize PC performance, you should be patient to try all of them if you really want to improve computer performance.
Free up Disk Space—Some Tips Free up Disk Space Successfully
Nov 17th
Have you got head ache that the computer can not run as fast as before? If you have used anti-virus software to check the computer but still cannot speed up computer, you cannot miss this article because you will learn some useful methods to optimize your computer.
The most serious problem of slow computer is there is not enough space in the disk to support the program running. You can imagine how slow the computer may be. Besides deleting the junk and temporary files in the disks, you can shut down some useless functions of Windows so as to free up disk space.
First, Close down system restore function.
It can take up relatively large disk space. So you can turn it off in the “My Computer”—“Properties”—“System Restore”. You can create a restore point by yourself and click “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”—“Disk Cleanup”—“More Options”—“Clean up” in the “System Restore” column. By doing this, the system will help you delete all but the most recent restore point. It is undoubted that the restore point wastes plenty of space in the computer.
And, close down “Hibernate” function which can waste more than 400M disk space.
Right-click the blank of desktop and click “Properties”. In the “Display Properties” tab, click “Screen Saver”—“Power”. In the “Power Options Properties”, choose “Hibernate” and cross out the tick of “Enable hibernation” and then click “OK” till you return to desktop. Now, you have turned off it successfully.
Besides, the virtual memory files take up much systematic disk space, so you can put them into other disk. Click “Control Panel”—“Performance and Maintenance”—“System”—“Advanced”, choose “Settings” of “Performance” in this tab. In the new tab, you can click “Advanced” again and click “Change” in the “Virtual Memory” column.
What is more,
you can uninstall the groupware that you do not use frequently. You can delete them in the “Control Panel”—“Add/Remove Programs”.
After closing down and revising the functions of computer, if you want your computer to run much faster, it is good for you to defragment disks. It should be known to all that defragmentation can speed up computer for its powerful collecting power of the disk fragments. Once the disk fragments have been gathered completely, it is much faster for computer to read and write the data from the disks. Therefore, defragmentation can not do nothing but good to the computer.
You can use the defragmenting program of Windows, of course. But if you want to experience the high speed of defragmentation, it is better for you to use the specific tools to help you. It is worthwhile for you having a try of certain defrag called “Advanced Defrag” for seven days free trial. What are you waiting for?
Speed up Computer—How to Free up Disk Space
Nov 17th
If you have been using computer for a long time, it is inevitable that your computer is running not so fast as before. Since a large number of reasons can result in slow computer speed, you have to take different methods to solve them one by one. Here, I would like to share some helpful ways to speed up computer by freeing up disk space.
When the computer has been working for a period of time, there are a lot of junks piling in it which are produced by surfing on the Internet, reading or writing data, deleting or removing files and so forth. If you continue to turn a blind eye to it, it is no doubt that you have to suffer slow computer performance. In this regard, you should know how to get rid of those junks in order to optimize computer performance.
First, you should delete junk and temporary files without hesitation. Such ones occupy a lot of space and do nothing good to computer. So, removing them can help you free up disk space. Here are some tips for you to do that manually.
You can delete many useless files such as those system and driver backup ones. Or if you have updated or patched computer, you may find there are many files like “Nt Uninstall” under the “C: /WINDOWS” directory. You feel easy to remove all of them. Besides, you can move certain files out of the systematic disks so as to leave more space for the disk to run program more quickly.
Since you have removed the junks files of computer, the next step is to clear up fragments in the disk. Such fragments are so invisible that you can not delete them by removing certain files. That is to say, you have to use a professional program to do that for you. You can use the defragmenting program of Windows in the “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. You should scan the disk first and then perform disk defragmentation
As for scanning disk, it is a necessary step for the computer, since the program needs to gather the specific data to defragment disk. You can choose “Disk Cleanup” in the “System Tools” to scan the disk. It comes to defragmentation next. You can choose “Disk Defragmenter” in the “System Tools” as well. And then all you have to do is to wait for the defragmenting program complete the task. If you are not so busy, it is OK for you to use this program. But if not, I think you should think carefully whether to use it or not, because such Windows program is really time-consuming.
In order to speed up defragmentation, I think you to use third-party tools, since they are the experts in this regard. But among the market that good and bad mix together, you should be more cautious to choose defrag. Therefore, according to my experience, I recommend you to use a program named “Advanced Defrag” which stands out of its kinds. You can not miss such helpful tool.
Optimize PC Performance—How to Speed up Computer Efficiently
Nov 16th
Have you find it takes more and more time to open a file and your disks are crammed with large numbers of files, use or useless? If so, you should be aware that the main cause of slow computer speed must be the excessive files in the folders and invisible fragments in the disks.
Therefore, if you are long for optimizing PC performance, you should spare no efforts in removing the junk files and defragment disk.
Normally, the junk and temporary files are the priority for you to get rid of. In the default condition, they are restored in the C system disk. You can find them in the “c:/Documents and Settings/Username” and “c:/WINDOWS” respectively. Since they are left by browsing on the Internet or backing up files, you feel free to get rid of them. By doing this, you have finished part of the task of speeding up computer. Besides removing such junks, the next step for you is to defragment disk.
In the first place, let us see why disk defragmentation can optimize computer performance.
Disk defragmenting program can unite fragment files and folders and arrange single and continuous disk space for restoring every file or folder so as to improve read-write speed. In this way, the system can visit and restore those files and folders faster and more efficiently. By arranging the files and folders, defragmentation can arrange available space as well and reduce the probability of creating new fragments. You see, when the files and folders reunite again, the system may spend less time restoring or reading them.
And you can defragment disk by using the program of Windows in the “Accessories”—“System Tools” and remember that scan the whole disk before defragmentation. While performing it, you are not allowed to use any application, because any read-write operation can hinder the speed of defragmentation, even cause it to restart again and again without completing the task.
The junk files and fragments are the main hindrance of optimizing computer performance. Every time you encounter low computer speed, you should remove them first. And click here for more information of optimizing computer speed.
If you ask how much it will take to defragment disk, it is rather hard to calculate. Defragmenting disk is based on many factors, including the disk size, the number of folders, fragments and the available local resource and so on. Its steps are mainly divided into three steps:
First, it is to find all the fragmented files and folders ahead of analyzing the disk. Then it will see how these fragments are produces. Finally, it can defragment disks. But if you use the disk defragmenter of Windows, it is really taking a lot of time. An hour or more is quite normal for defragmenting a disk.
So, if you want to speed up defragmentation just like speed up computer, it is wise for you to use a third-party defrag which is faster and more efficient than the one provided by Windows. Beside, it is easier to operate. You are welcome to have a try by clicking here