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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.
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.
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.
Windows Performance—the Knowledge You should Know about Computer Performance
Dec 4th
Since you have using computer for a long time, it is unavoidable that your Windows system performance is reduced gradually. Even it is difficult to find at the very beginning, the problems are piling day by day. At last, you have to face that it takes longer and longer time to open files or visit websites.
Well, you can learn the main causes that influence windows performance in this article. I am sure you will know how to improve computer performance after reading it.
Lack of sufficient memory
Windows operating systems is boasting with multi-linearity and multitasks. System can perform time-sharing operation by using CPU. However, as a coin has two sides, you have to face a problem that multitask requires rigorously for high computer performance. Even word software can expense about sixteen MB memories, let alone certain big software.
At that moment, system will use hard disk space as virtual memory automatically in order to run programs and restore swap and various temporary files. Since hard disk is mechanical fabric while memory is electronic, there are several orders of magnitude between the two running speed. Although system can use hard disk as virtual memory to release memory shortage burden, it can drag the program running speed obviously.
So, you can set virtual memory by hand so as to solve this problem. You can set virtual memory as three time as that of physical memory. You can set it in the “Control Panel”—“Performance and Maintenance”—“System”—“Virtual Memory”.
Low disk space
Although Windows has many advantages, it is undeniable that Windows are incapable of managing files clearly. Sometimes you even do not know these files are good for system or not. Therefore, files in Windows directory are becoming more and more and its capacity is increasingly bulky. What is more, all the temporary and swap files produced by system can diminish hard disk available space. When the space has been narrowed to certain degree, those swap and temporary files can not find enough available space to restore which cause system to run inefficiently.
Besides, since you restore or delete various kinds of software in the hard disks frequently, the disk available space have been scattered separately. Because system does not often restore files in order, it may lead to frequent move between disk head and disk when system is restoring and reading files. This is the main reasons that slow down system running speed.
You are supposed to delete those temporary and swap files in the computer manually. You can find these files mainly in the C systematic disk where hides a large number of useless files.
Too many partitions
If your Windows has not updated qualifiedly but you have defined too many partitions, it can slow down computer startup. Therefore, it is better for you not to set excessive partitions as updating. Windows has to load every partition. As partitions are increasing, it takes longer and longer time to load them completely. Therefore, you should know how to set partitions properly.
Definitely, every user hope the Windows performance always keeps in good state. But if you do not do anything to improve computer performance, it is just dream for you. You really need to do it.
Hard Disk—How to Solve Certain Hard Disk Problems
Dec 1st
Hard disk is an important part of computer, but its stability and usage time can not as well as other fixings in the computer. That is to say, you should pay more attention to protect your hard disk so as to improve computer performance. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
The one of problems is that if there is any error in the hard disk, it can hinder the applications to write temporary files into it. In order to solve it, you should make sure that there are not excessive temporary files, so it is better for you to remove them at first. By doing this, you can know that the problem is caused by too many files or disk errors.
First of all, I would like to tell how and where to clear up temporary files. Sometimes, redundant temporary files can be in the way of writing to hard disk.
Temporary folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files and C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\
History temporary folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\recent\
Internet temporary folders: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
In the menu of browser, you can click “Tools”—“Internet Options”. In the “Temporary Internet files” tab, click “Settings”—“View Files”. And then you can open this cache folder.
Or you can click “Start”—“Run” and type “Chkdsk” and press “Enter” or click “OK” so that the computer can start to check disk. In this way, you can add “D:” or “E:” to check them. Besides, you can also add the parameter of “blank/F” to restore errors automatically when detecting errors. For example, click “Start”—“Run” and type “Chkdsk D: /F”. You should be careful that there is a blank ahead of “F”.
Certain software like playing ones can produce temporary folders automatically when running. Such folders end with “temp” or “tmp”. You can find them by searching local disks and remove them manually.
Another problem is computer always reminds that “disk boot error” and you have to restart computer many times before entering into system. Why?
If you have encountered this problem, it is no doubt that there is logical or physical bad track in the hard disk. In the first place, you can enter into system and open the disk defragmenting program of Windows by clicking “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. Choose to scan thoroughly and tick “Automatically fix errors” and then perform scanning program to see whether you can get rid of this trouble. If not, you had better back up the important files and data to other storage and try other restoring software to put those bad tracks into certain partition and hide them. The last method is to do low-level format. Although it softens or shield problems, low-level formatting can harm your disk without question. That is to say, you ought to make your mind cautiously before doing that.
All in all, since a lot of cause can lead to hard disk problems
. The best method to prevent them is to protect hard disk in advance.
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.
Low Disk Space—How to Free up Disk Space?
Nov 15th
If the disk space is too low, what will happen? You have to bear the always popping up dialog box that reminds you the disk space is too low, and what is worse, the disk can not provide enough space for you to download any file or video from Internet. Therefore in order to prevent such problem, you had better free up disk space as much as possible, even though you have not encou
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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Optimize Computer Performance—Must Facts about Temporary Files
Nov 2nd
Do you find your computer is running slower than before? Sometimes, your computer, or hard disk, to be precisely, is overweighed. Therefore, what you really have to do is help hard disk lose weight. Well, it is the article that can give you a big hand.
Large numbers of junk files not only waste too many disk spaces, but also hinder the speed of operating system. Therefore, you should clear up system files ceaselessly so as to improve efficiency and disk available space. In this article, I will introduce you certain methods to clear up junk files in the C disk.
In the Windows operating system, file properties are divided into three categories: hide, read only and archive. If the files are hidden, you cannot see them in the disk, of course. You can find that the memory volume is increasing rapidly, but it is hard to find their roots. Because many junk files hide in the C disk. In this regard, before defragmenting, you should display all the hidden files first. Open “My Computer”, choose “Folder Options” in the “Tools” and tick to display all the files and folders.
Since you have often visited websites and looked files, Windows put such temporary visited files into a certain folders where pile up the temporary files. Therefore, it is a must for you to clear up temporary files regularly. The most direct way to solve this problem is to delete them completely. In fact, almost the temporary files are restored in the C:/Docucments and Settings/Users’ name, you can remove them as follows:
1. Open C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Cookies, delete all the files, because it restores the left index files when visiting websites.
2. In the C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/History, delete the files since they belong to history record.
3. In the C: /WINDOWS/Temp, remove all these temporary files.
4. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temp, remove such user’s temporary visiting files.
5. Open C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files, delete all the page files.
6. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Recent folder, you can delete all these shortcuts of recent browsed files.
7. In the C: /WINDOWS/Software Distribution/download, get rid of all the temporary files when downloading.
8. In the C: /WINDOWS/Driver Cache/386, delete all the compressed files.
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Speed up Computer—Some Facts about Temporary Files
Oct 29th
Nowadays, it is a must for user to learn something about computer, because you can solve problems easily at any time. And, in this article, you can learn something about the temporary files which are helpful for speeding up computer.
When using Windows operating system, it is likely to find some files with extension name of TMP in the C disk, even a TMP catalog in the Windows catalog. Some novice may wonder what these files are since they never set up them before.
As a matter of fact, they are the temporary files created by Windows. And, TMP is the abbreviation for temporary files. When using Word editing document, you can also find a bunch of TMP files in the Word installing catalog. These are temporary files brought by Word. And, it is impossible to delete them if you have closed down Word and the system reminds you repeatedly the read-write protection. What can you do?
Therefore, as you want to remove the temporary files, you should close down all the current used programs and then delete them in case that they stack day by day to take up the disk space. What is worse, they are so messy that cost the disk to scan them uselessly and lead to confusion in allotting files. But, not all the TMP files are the same.
Well, when should you delete TEMP files? There is no any running program in the background. If your computer is troubled with the same problem and the hardware is OK, you should delete the files in the TEMP directory. And, if it shows error when scanning the disk and cannot correct itself, you are supposed to delete the temporary files and scan again. Be careful, some TEMP files are invisible in the Word catalog; therefore, you really need some other professional tools to get rid of them.
By learning this article, you may have find that it is rather tedious to get rid of the temporary files. But, in order to speed up your computer, you have to delete them perfectly. I recommend you to use some tools to share your burden.