As a Computer enthusiast for 7+ years now, I've experenced the great, annoying and wonderful opportunities. Technology isn't perfect, So why not try to make it?
In this instructable thread, I will tell you how to fasten up your slow computer.
In this instructable thread, I will tell you how to fasten up your slow computer.
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A Great thing to fasten up computer speeds is to Defrag your ENTIRE system. Never use internet downloaded programs, in most cases it makes the computer more slower!
Using Disk Defragment Diagram #1 was built to clean windows systems and make cleaning more effective and productive.
Also you can use Disk clean-up Diagram #2, another great program which can free up disk space. Using Disk clean-up, used frequently, is great to prevent slow start ups.
Also cleaning your internet browsers cookies, passwords and history can help speed up your system.
Simply following these steps on a weekly/monthly basis WILL fasten up your cluttered and slow system
Using Disk Defragment Diagram #1 was built to clean windows systems and make cleaning more effective and productive.
Also you can use Disk clean-up Diagram #2, another great program which can free up disk space. Using Disk clean-up, used frequently, is great to prevent slow start ups.
Also cleaning your internet browsers cookies, passwords and history can help speed up your system.
Simply following these steps on a weekly/monthly basis WILL fasten up your cluttered and slow system
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When that is done then repeat the process & select "Disk Cleanup".
Later,
Arthur Elizondo
All defrag does is wear out hard drives. When I was a mswindows admin, only maybe one percent of the time did that help. With linux we do not have to put up with or waste time with all the viruses and adware (so far). With linux I can still use older machines. I have not had to purchase a new machine in over 5 years and we have been Microsoft free for over 4 years. Still use pentium II class systems via linux without a problem. I usually relegate them as servers. My desktop in an original P4 though. We have been collecting ide to sata cards, since pata drives are virtually extinct.
Defragging the hard drive isn't going to wear it out. The drive is running most of the time your PC is on anyway if your using it. The heads do not touch the platters so there is very little to wear out.
Contrary to what most people may think leaving the HD running is the best way to prolong the life of the hard drive as starting and stopping may well create wear as the heads park in many drives on the platter.
Perhaps the best advice to improve PC windows use is to make regular backups of essential data and reload your version of windows to a newly formatted HD at least every year if not every 6 months.
Clearing out programmes that are preloaded at start up also speeds loading as will clearing out of memory by restarting after closing any large programmes you have been using.
Allowing the system to use a large part of your HD as a virtual memory is also a good way to slow down the PC as the extra disk accesses build up when the system is continuously swapping from memory to virtual memory.
There is no doubt that defragging will enhance performance when it is needed. But most times it is just plain unnecessary. As for arrangement of data and software on a drive is sort of a different issue. That is more of a user issue. Funny I never had to do all that backup and reloading the os when I ran mswindows or as a technician in support of thousands of machines (except in the case of an hd failure). When I was running Microsoft, I think I may have defragged my personal hard drive no more than say 5 times over many years between dos and mswindows. While using WinXP at home, I only had to redo the os once when I was upgrading the drive and that was over a 4 year period.
As a technician in the real world, I found that registry and dll clean up on mswindows systems was far more beneficial to speed up a machine than defragging ever was. Certainly takes a fraction of the time to complete versus defragging. But you also have to consider spyware, adware, and virus prevention is a double edged sword. You have to have it, but the software does slow down the system. If MS only knew how to write a robust os.
www.download.com has several registry cleaners that you can download for free.
This would look 10x better if the first & last images were replaced with pictures of computers.
Fragmentation is caused by deleting data (freeing up blocks) - it is only useful if the disc is heavily fragmented. I might have done C: once in 3/4 years, and it's fine today because I've not emptied the recycle bin since Feb 2009.
Newer operating systems (Windows) generally tend to be more resource-hungry so they make performance worse
Anti-virus software pretty much always makes performance worse (on a malware-free system)
Additional memory usually helps.
More power in your GPU usually delivers results.
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