Optimize your PC for better performance
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 | Author: admin
As we continue to use our computers they collect more and more files and little by little performance slows. Here are three tips that can help your older PC become a bit faster and help your overall experience.
Adjusting Windows visual effects: by default windows has enabled many fancy graphical effects that make the interface look “pretty” at the cost of more memory usage. Performing this step will free up some memory:
Adjusting performance; Go to “Control Panel” and pick on “System” and under the “Advanced” tab choose performance settings and select “Adjust for best performance”.
Disabling Disk Indexing; out of the box Windows indexes all the files on your hard disk, this is a great feature if you’re always running searches on your computer. But chances are you’re not always searching for files, and when you are you don’t mind waiting a little if it means faster overall performance.
Disabling XP disk indexing will improve performance as-well:
Defragmenting your hard disk: over time computer disks become “shuffled” – data becomes disorganized all over the disk. Example when you create a new file it may be in one single location on your disk, but after reopening and editing/adding to the file your file might not be able to be saved on the same physical place so the file would be divided into chunks and spread over the disk. This slows down file access and thus your whole computer. Defragmenting your disk organizes all the data sequentially improving file access.
To defrag your system go to “Control Panel” click on “Administrative Tools” choose “Computer Management” under the storage section you should see “Disk Defragmenter” choose Drive “c:” and “Defragment”
All three steps can be performed on MS Vista as well.
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