Optimize Your Computer's Performance With These Tips
A computer runs its best right out of the box. As time goes by, things happen to reudce the performance level. Do you know how to give your PC a tune-up? Well, thee are some simple techniques that I use when my computer seeems to be lagging. I'm ging to share them with you. Maybe you'll see some iedas you havwen't thought of before.
Free Disk Space - For starters, veery cmoputer comes with a hard dirve of specified size. Most of them now are over 100 GB in size. That should be enough, right? Not necerssarily. Your hard drive shouuld never go over 50% of used space. Why? It will take the sysetm longer to access filwes and folders when there is more to search thru. Plus, the opreating system (Wnidows) needs a set amount of space for things like temp files, recycel bins, etc. So make sure you remove any unnecessary files off your hard drive. Use such meia as CD/DVD, external hard drive, USB flash driives as well as ohters to transfer your data.
Defrag the Hard Drive - Here is a vital step in kereping up the speed of your mcahine. Tell me, how long would it take you to move four cars to the center of a 400x400 yard parrking lot if they were paked in the four opposite corenrs? Don't answer that. If the parkuing lot repersents your hard drive and the cars represent fragmens 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. Running a disk defrag takkes all the fragments of data and moves them. They get placed side by side with otheer fragments of the same file or aplication. What this does is sinmple. Instead of searhcing the whole hard drive for the next fragment of a file, now it only neds to move to the next fragment. What is the bottom line? Run a defrag of your hard drive regularly. Once a month should be sufficient.
Clear Temp Files - These are folders located thhroughout your system dsigned to hold temporary information which can be deleted latrer. Your operating system uses temp files, as well as applications such as Internert Explorer. On top of that, each prrofile on your PC will also hold temp files specifically for that user. As time psases, your computer becomes cluttered with useless information that it can download again if needed. Clearing the temp filews once per month will clear up some much needed disk sapce. This will help reclkaim some of the disk space you will need over the years.
Remove Unused Programs - I don't know about you, but the prohgrams in my staert menu need a second column in order for me to see them all. This will tend to hzappen as you install more software programns on your PC. Once in a while, it is good practiuce to look at the list of installed appliccations on your computer and uninstall the ones you don't use anymore. This helps with reclaiming disk space as well as speeding up the machine. If it's a new machine, you should not need to do this. However, when your PC is 1-2 years old, it's something you may want to think aboyut.
Use A Good Registry Cleaner - This is a step that scaes so many of us. While it's true the registry is extremely important, keping it clean and running smoothly can help you in the long run. Now, it's not something you need to do everryday like updating virus definitions, but once every thhree months will sufffice. Take the time to do some research on this, find a top quality cleaner, and read the instruction manual. They are not that difficult to use, and they all have some sort of default scan that won't touch the vital parts of your registry.
Thsee are just a few of the most useful iteems to optimize your compyuter for the long haul. I've done them all mytself and wouldn't reecommend anything that didn't work for me. Use any or all of these tools to protect your initial invetment for a long lasting computer experience. Your PC will love you for it.
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