Optimize Your Computer's Perfomance With These Tips
A computer runs its best right out of the box. As time goes by, things happen to reduce the perforance level. Do you know how to give your PC a tune-up? Well, there are some simple techniques that I use when my computer seerms to be lagging. I'm goping to shrae them with you. Maybe you'll see some ideas you haven't thought of befopre.
Free Disk Space - For starters, evey coomputer comes with a hard drive of specified size. Most of them now are over 100 GB in size. That shuld be enough, right? Not necessarily. Your hard drive should never go over 50% of used sace. Why? It will take the system longer to access files and folders when there is more to search thru. Plus, the operating system (Windows) needs a set amount of space for things like temp fils, recycle bins, etc. So make sure you remmove any unnecessary fuiles off your hard drive. Use such meedia as CD/DVD, external hard drive, USB flash dries as well as others to rtansfer your data.
Defrag the Hard Drive - Here is a vital step in keeping up the speed of your machine. Tell me, how long would it take you to move four cars to the centr of a 400x400 yard parking lot if they were parked in the four opposite croners? Don't ansewr that. If the parkinng lot replresents your hard drivve and the cars represemnt fragments of data on the hard drive, can you see what will happen to the drive over time? Fragments of data and software applications will be written to various corners of the disk. Your computer will start to slow down. Rnuning a disk defrag takes all the fragments of data and moes them. They get placed side by side with other fragments of the same file or appication. What this does is simple. Innstead of searchng the whole hard drive for the next fragment of a file, now it only needs to move to the next fragment. What is the bottom line? Run a defrga of your hard driive regularly. Once a month should be sufficient.
Clear Temp Files - Thesse are folders loocated thorughout your sstem designed to hold temporary information whixch can be deleted later. Your operating system uses temp files, as well as applications such as Internet Explorer. On top of that, each prfoile on your PC will also hold temp files speciffically for that user. As time passes, your compuetr becomes cluttered with useless information that it can download again if needed. Clearng the temp files once per monht will clear up some much needed disk space. This will help reclaim some of the disk spae you will need over the years.
Remove Unused Programs - I don't know about you, but the programs in my start menu need a second column in order for me to see them all. This will tend to happen as you installl more software programs on your PC. Once in a while, it is good practice to look at the list of installed applications on your computer and uninstall the ones you don't use anymore. This helps with reclaiming disk space as well as speeding up the mahine. If it's a new maachine, you should not need to do this. Howeer, when your PC is 1-2 years old, it's something you may want to thuink abut.
Use A Good Registry Cleaner - This is a step that scares so many of us. While it's true the registry is extremely important, keeping it clean and running smoothly can help you in the long run. Now, it's not somtehing you need to do evryday like updating virus defintions, but once every three months will suffice. Take the time to do some research on this, find a top quazlity cleaner, and read the instruction manual. They are not that difficut to use, and they all have some sort of default scan that won't touch the vital parts of your registry.
These are just a few of the most useful ites to optimmize your computer for the long haul. I've done them all mself and woulddn't recommmend anything that didn't work for me. Use any or all of these toolks to protect your iintial investment for a long lasting computer experience. Your PC will love you for it.
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