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Improve PC Performance—How to Solve Disk Error to Optimize Computer?
Oct 27th
It is inevitable that computer may run slower and slower since being used for a period of time which is annoying for many users. While there are many ways to optimize your computer performance, in this article, you can learn one more way to improve PC performance.
You can use disk cleaning tool and disk defragmenter to optimize your computer performance, besides, you also can apply the error-detecting tool to check whether the restored files on the hard disk are completed or not.
And, the broken sectors in the system may also reduce the performance of the hard disk. You can scan the drive to see if any sector is broken or any file or folder is put improperly. Now, let us find how to do it in the Windows.
First of all, you should close down all the files before running any error-detecting tool. And then, click “Start”—“My Computer”, right-click the hard disk to search is there any broken sector and click “Properties”, in the open dialog box, click “Tool” tab to start the checking. Later, tick the check box to let the system start to scan and try to restore the broken sectors. If there are any damaged ones, please choose to restore them. More importantly, you just need to let the system restore the system file errors automatically.
If you use computer everyday, it is better for you to detect and restore the disk error once a week in order to avoid losing any important data.
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Defragment—the Useful Knowledge about Defragmentation
Oct 27th
It is necessary for every user to get knowledge of computer, because every time when your computer goes wrong, you can know how to solve it instead be so worried or reinstall the system point-blank. In this article, I will tell you the useful knowledge about defragmentation which can help you optimize your computer.
In the first place, let us see what disk fragment is. Actually, disk fragment should be called file fragment, because the files are restored in different places sporadically rather than continuously in series.
When physical memory of application is insufficient, the operation system can create temporary swap files normally which virtualizes the disk space as memory so as to easy up the burden of physical memory. However, the virtual memory management program may perform read-write operation frequently ton the hard disks which produces a bunch of fragments. This is the main of piling fragmentation in the hard disk.
Besides, when you browse over Internet Explorer, it may bring about plenty of temporary files. Or the setting of file catalog can also cause a large number of fragments. Usually, this may not lead to problems in the system, but when they pile excessively, the system has to search them back and forth in order to read such files. If this continues a long time, it can result in declining system performance and shortening the usage of the hard disks. What is worse, redundant disk fragment may cause the loss of restored files. It is really a disaster, is it?
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Defragment Disk—Why Cannot Continue Defragmentation?
Oct 27th
It is unavoidable for any user to defragment disk as long as he wants to improve his computer performance. But, during the defragmentation, a mess of unexpected problems hinder to complete the task perfectly.
Have you encountered that you cannot continue to defragment disk when it is carrying on certain progress? If so, you cannot afford to miss this article, because it will tell you how to solve this problem completely.
When defragmentation is conducting from 1% to 10%, it is the stage of detecting drive programs and reading its information actually. After ten percent of defragmentation, it just begins to defragment from here. If the system is plunged into vicious loop, it is likely because of remaining programs piling in the memory. For example, the anti-virus software or screensaver program disturbs the normal disk scanning and holds back the program to run on the rails which drags the system into vicious loop. And, how to defragment smoothly?
First of all, it is a must to close down all the remaining programs before defragmenting disk. Such programs make system read and write disk repeatedly so that hinder the process of defragmentation.
Second, if defragmenting still can not work after shutting down programs, you should try to detect disk thoroughly by using the order of “SCANDISK” including test surface to find whether there is any problem of disk itself.
Then, if users have not cleared up the fragments in the disks for a long time, it really takes a lot of time to continue the defragmenting process from ten percent to eleven percent. You can click to display the information to open system operation process to see whether the operation falls into vicious loop.
By following the above steps, you can get rid of such head ached problems. And, if you have any other problem, you can click here to find more information about defragmentation.
Defragment Disk—Some Tips to Solve Defragmentation Problems
Oct 27th
It is universal knowledge that every computer needs to defragment if you want to keep its high performance. However, in the process of defragmentation, there appear many problems. So, in this article, I would like to share my understandings of defragmentation with you in hope that it can help you solve such problems.
Normally, the system can not defragment disks when starting computer. But, in fact, such function is prohibited by the computer. That is to say, you can enable the function manually.
When starting computer, if Windows XP can perform defragmentation to arrange the necessary files orderly, it is definitely that the starting speed can be improved greatly. Although such function is closed down in the default circumstance, you can activate it by following the steps:
Click “Start”—“Run”, type “regedit” to enter into “Registry Editor”, and click in order to find HKEY_LOCAL_MAHCINE\SOFTWARE\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunetion. In the right blanket, double-click the value of Enable and change the default key value from “N” to “Y”. Then, your system can defragment even it is starting.
Some people may wonder that can the starting speed be improved if forbidding pre-reading function. The answer is “Yes”.
You can also change your registry. In the “Registry Editor”, open the catalog of “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters” in turns, find the subkeys of “EnablePrefeteher”, and add the value of “1” to it. By doing this, you can lessen the waiting time of pre-reading files. It is much easier to enter into loading menu because the schedule bar just needs to scroll a circle.
But, I think you should learn that although you have set the value of “EnablePrefetcher” to “1” to facilitate pre-reading files, the system still has to load a bunch of drive programs, start subsystems and related services. In other word, even you have seen the welcome screen, it does not mean the computer has completed starting process. Does it sound contrary? Well, since the system has to continue to initialize the loading of drive programs, the total time cost in starting the system does not change greatly.
Therefore, it is still hard to speed up start computer by changing certain key values. But, do not worry, you can turn to another useful tools instead of doing it manually.
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Main problems in defragmenting Vista— How to solve defragment problems in Vista
Oct 27th
When defragmenting a Vista computer, you can directly use the disk defragmenter that comes within the Vista operating system. But if you have defragmented your Vista computer, you will always encounter some problems as what you can see in the description below. In this article, we will discuss some commonly-met defragment problems on Vista and what should be paid attention to when run a disk defrag on a Vista computer.
1) Unfriendly user interface.
Unlike XP or other defrag programs, what you get from the Vista defragment interface is only the word: Defragmenting, without a chart showing where the fragments are, and how about the defragment process.
2) No progress bar
When beginning a defragment process in Vista, it is impossible for you to see how the progress has been made, what is the estimated time and remaining time for what you get from its interface is: This will take a few minutes to a few hours. Due to this, lots of PC users decide to stop halfway because of the endless defragment.
3) No report
When running a disk defrag in XP, you will always get a report telling what the rate of the fragments is, and then decide whether to defragment the disk or not. On the contrary, even though Vista provides us a choice to analyze the fragments, there is no report generated after the analysis. What you always get will be a suggestion to defragment your computer or not. This is not humanized.
So what should you do in order to avoid these problems when defragmenting a Vista computer? It is recommended that you can defragment the computer in safe mode. Hence, without the interference of other running programs, the defragment process will become more smooth and faster. Or in order not to interrupt the proper usage of the computer, if time permits, you can set it to automatically defragment the computer in a mid-night, when the computer is not being used. But in my opinion, this will be more troublesome to finish this defragment process every time.
So if your Vista computer is always used for school working, official production or other kinds of multi-editing, it is deeply recommended that you can depend on a special designed defrag program to run a disk defrag on vista, making it run faster. And Advanced Defrag will be a better one for you.
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Defragment Disk—Useful Knowledge about Defragmentation
Oct 28th
Have you even wondered that why it is necessary to clear up disk regularly? It is the same that if your room is in a mess, you really need to clear it up. Since the disk is the room for the files, you are bound to defragment it on time.
Well, in this article, I will tell you the useful knowledge about defragmentation in hope to help you solve the problems in this regard.
First of all, defragmentation is quite helpful for optimizing system performance. The file layout on the disk has great influence on I/O performance. And, excessive and scattered fragments in the disk can damage computer performance seriously. Although Windows XP can re-lay certain files automatically to improve the performance, in the default condition, it is not the necessary system routine to do it and only contains a small part of the files. It can not defragment completely. That is the why you should clear up fragments specially rather than let it done by computer itself.
In this regard, you should perform complete defragmentation immediately after installing the system or uninstalling any program. In the default condition, Windows XP may defragment partly once three days. And the moved files will be written into Layout.ini files which are based on the current usage of disk to adjust physical positions of the files. So, Windows XP is supposed to arrange the physical files in the disk in the mentioned order. Its routine is in the C:\Windows\Prefetch.
System can defragment automatically when there is not so much work to do. At this moment, system will choose the files in the Layout.ini preferentially and defragment them partially. They are the base of defragmentation program to move files.
All in all, it is a must to defragment disk regularly. if you find it is a rather tedious work, you can turn to a useful tool which can save your time and energy a lot
Slow computer? How to avoid a slow computer
Oct 29th
It is sure that no one wants to work with a slow computer for it will bring more inconvenience. If you are eager to have a faster computer all the time, please do not miss this article, telling how to avoid a slow computer.
Though many factors result in a slow computer, in our daily life, we can effort from the small details below to avoid a slow computer:
1) Scan the computer for virus regularly. It is appreciated to install a specific anti-virus program (more would be counterproductive) on the computer and scan for virus at a regular basic
2) Disable some unnecessary startup entries. You can go to Star -> Run -> type msconfig to access Startup, and then delete entries that do not need to automatically run at windows startup. For some unsure entries, check the “WinTasks Process Library” for a description of the known system processes, applications and spywares.
3) Uninstall some unwanted /useless programs from Add/Remove Programs.
4) Turn off all unnecessary animations and active desktop. You can simply go to Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> click Settings within Performance-> click Custom within Visual Effects, and then disable some relevant user interface.
5) Cancel some unwanted services. By default, Windows XP will recall some unwanted services, which will only slow down the computer, making no sense in protecting the computer. You can turn them off by going Start-> run-> type Services.msc to open Services, and then stop or modify the startup types of the unwanted service. Hence, the computer will be much faster at startup.
6) Visit Microsoft’s Windows Update site regularly, download/ install all updates marked with “Critical”. Normally, a notification message that informs of new updates will popped up from the task bar.
7) Defrag the computer and clean up temporary/useless file. You can right click the drive you want to defragment to select Properties, and then click Disk Cleanup to begin the cleanup process. Finally, please go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools-> Disk Defragmenter to defragment the hard disk
Hopefully, if you always pay attention to and insist on the seven tips above, your computer won’t run slower. But please note that, though a disk defragmentation seems a little simple, it helps greatly speed up the computer. If you have never run it before, go to defragment it now.
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Ways to defragment Vista clearly
Nov 2nd
When defragmenting Vista operating system, you will find that Microsoft has eliminated the status icon of the defragmentation, and fragmentation analysis interface. Hence, users can not, as what they can do in windows XP, see the fragmentation rate of the computer to make sure whether to defragment the computer or not. That is very woeful. But here, you will get tips on how to clearly defragment vista without difficulties.
It is a little difficult to defragment a vista computer because of the unfriendly user interface— no report and no progress bar. But does it mean that we can not clearly defragment a vista computer? NO, with the method below, you can defragment your vista computer easily.
1) Click Start Menu.
2) Go to Programs and then Accessories.
3) Right click Command Prompts to select “Run as administrator”.
4) Type the command as follow: defrag (drive letter): –a, for example, defrag c: -a, and then press Enter.
After that, there will be a generated report showing the volume size, Free space, Largest free space extent, and Present file fragmentation and suggestion on whether to defragment the volume or not. But please note that it will take some time to finish based on the size and the fragmentation of the hard disk you select.
But in my opinion, to make the defragmentation easily, it is much better to depend on some defrag programs. Of all the defrag programs I have used, Advanced Defrag is the one that impressed me so much: its friendly user interface, the big buttons with clear function on its interface and the pie-chart design make everything very easy and simple. What is more, users are provided a very detailed generated web-report, showing the fragments on the computer after the Analyze and report about the fragments before and after the defragmentation after the Fragment button, making every defragmentation simple and straightforward.
So I deeply recommend you to use this defrag program in you want to defragment your vista computer clearly. You can go here for a free 7-day trial of this program.
Must Facts about Maintaining System
Nov 2nd
I am sure that all the users hope the computers are running like a new, but if you do not maintain your computer carefully, it is just like a daydream. That is right; your computer really needs your cares so that it is able to work like a new. And, in this article, I would like to introduce how to maintain your system.
It is undoubted that Windows system is faster, more convenient and easier to operate compared with other system. But you should not ignore that it is vulnerable of Windows to produce a mass of junk files. No matter what sort of Windows system, C disk volume is becoming larger and larger obviously day by day. Regardless of installing various applications in it, the most serious problem of it is that there are too many junk files produced by the system occupying C disk memory, which is really a headache for the users. Therefore, you should get rid of them manually or using other tools to help you.
It is known to all that death of computer, virus, operation errors and abnormal shutdown can result in disk problems. What is worse, if such problems are running up to a certain degree, it can reduce the computer system performance or make data lost. Therefore, you should scan the disk regularly and exclude any probable hardware and software problem in case of greater disaster. By doing this, it can guarantee the system to run safely and smoothly.
And in the Windows, it provides such tool to help you. You can click “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”—“Scan Disk”, then you can start up the disk scanning program.
Besides, you should clear up the disk of restoring data, if there is something wrong with it, all the data may lost within a second. Therefore, you should always maintain the hard disk to make it run normally.
In conclusion, you should maintain your computerlike taking care of a child so that your computer can work for you perfectly. And, if you want to scan your computer completely, you can click here to find the best answers.
Disk Defragment—Some Methods to Solve Defragmenting Problems
Nov 3rd
If you want to speed up your computer or optimize its performance, I am sure that you have tried to defragment disk once or more. It is true that defragmentation can help improve computer performance. But, during the defragmentation, some may have encountered certain problems. So, in this article, I will introduce the common methods to solve this problem.
If the system is reminding you that there is “chkdsk” running, it cannot defragment the disk. If this happens, you can solve it as follows:
Before defragmentation, you should clear up the disk. Click “My Computer”, right-click the drive needs to defragment and click “Properties”—“General” to choose disk, take C disk for example, in the dialog box of “Disk Cleanup for (C:)”, you can tick the files to delete. And you can check these files by clicking “View Files”. Then, click “OK” to clean up the C disk.
Secondly, you should scan the disk ahead of defragmentation. Also in the “Properties” tab, click “Tools”—“Check Now”—“Start”. After finishing the scan, you can exit this dialog box. Then, in this stage, you have to make sure that you have closed down all the running programs, the real-time virus monitor and screensaver in particular.
Now, you can start defragmentation. In the “Properties” tab of the disk you want to defragment, click “Tools”—“Defragment Now”—“OK”. The system will remind you after completing it.
Be careful that, you should not read and write any data during this process but just let your computer to finish it, because the computer is vulnerable to go crushed by any read-write operation. If it is hard to end defragmentation, you have to defragment it in the “Safe Mode”.
By following the steps mentioned above, I am sure that you can solve the common problems of defragmentation. But, if you have encountered any other specific trouble, I really recommend you to turn to a professional tool.
Disk defragmentation—Tips to Ensure Defragment Disk Smoothly
Nov 4th
Have you bothered by slow computer speed? It is true that defragment disk can improve computer speed. Since Windows has its own defragmenting program, most users are bound to try to do that. Unfortunately, it is not so smoothly to complete it perfectly.
You may have encountered many problems during the process. If not, it is still worthwhile for you reading this article to ensure defragmentation smoothly in case of greater problems.
It is a must for you to close down all the running programs and just let defragmentation works alone. In other word, you are supposed to do nothing but perform defragmenting program only. This is because the system has to read data in the disk repeatedly during the defragmentation. Thus, the process may be interrupted and forced to start again and again. What is worse, it can result in computer freezing up under the unstable system. If you do not want such disaster to happen, remember to shut down all the working applications ahead of defragmenting disk.
And, you can do some changes of computer on the conditions that you are quite familiar with computer. If the volume of hard disk and disk partition is small, it does not take too much time to defragment it. If not, you had better be ready to wait for a long time for those big disk and partitions with a mass of data. Therefore, you can shut down the program of optimizing parameters of the computer.
Then, you also need to consider the screen save during defragmentation. The open screen saver can lead to defragment disk repeatedly. You can close down it manually or to let system to do it automatically by altering the registry. In the “Registry Editor”, find “HKEY_CURRENT_USERS_twareMicrosoft_Windows_CurrentVersion_Applets”; change the default value as “YES”. So, the system can replace your work to shut down it by itself.
Nowadays, everyone will agree that time is money and desperately wants to accomplish a goal within minimum time by using least energy. It is the same in using computer. In fact, the invention of computer is to save time and energy of human being. If it becomes slow or goes wrong, it can affect our work efficiency without question. Therefore, we should speed up computer as possible as we can.
As for defragmentation, though Windows has provided a program to solve it, you may have found that it is really inconvenient. For example, if you want to defragment disk, you have to divide into three steps: cleaning up, scanning and defragmenting. That is to say, you need to finish defragmentation in three different dialog boxes. If there is a tool that can complete all these things in a box only, how much time it can save?
Here is a defragmenting tool that can meet this requirement. You can click here to have a try and to enjoy the high computer speed after defragmentation.
Ways to reduce disk fragmentation— skillfully optimize PC performance
Nov 4th
We all know that disk fragmentation is inevitable during the usage of the computer, which will significantly affect the computer speed. So it is necessary for us to run a disk cleanup or fragmentation regularly to speed up the computer. But is there any way to reduce or avoid the fragmentation on the computer so as to always optimize pc computer and protect the data on our computer? Of course, you are at the right place here.
1) Remove temporary swap files.
We know that the more fragments in the partition where system being installed (normally C drive), the slower the computer will be. In Win 95/98 system, when there is not enough physical memory for the running programs, there will be a swap file named WIN386.SWP generated under the directory C：\WINDOWS. Obviously, Virtual Memory Manager will frequently read and write the hard disk, resulting in lot of fragments. So we can change the swap files to other partition to avoid this problem: go to Start, Control Panel, double click System, click Performance \ Virtual Memory, select “Let me specify my own virtual memory settings”, then select the drive (except C drive), click Ok to finish the setting. But the drive you select must be larger than 100MB. Hence, the swap file will be changed to another partition, that is to say, the fragmentation comes along with the swap files will only locate in the drive you design, but not the program drive, greatly optimize pc performance.
2) Remove the Internet temporary files
When surfing the Internet, there will be lots temporary files generated under the path: C：\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files, resulting in the frequent read and write action to the hard disk, disk fragmentation and computer slowdown. So we can change the location of the IE temporary files to another partition to avoid this problem：First, please go to create a new directory in other partition to store the temporary files, for example, D drive, and then go to Start -> Control Panel -> double click Internet Options -> click Settings within Internet Temporary Files -> click “Remove folders” to the directory you just created. So this will reduce the fragments generating in C drive, always optimizing PC performance.
With the two methods above, you can effectively reduce the disk fragmentation and always optimize PC performance. But to always optimize PC performance, it is much better to use a professional defrag program to defragment the computer all the time.
To reduce the disk fragment and optimize PC performance, Advanced Defrag may be a better choice for you for it is a program that can help users effectively defragment the computer by not only defragmenting the hard disk, but also the registry, making the files on the computers always stays close and contiguously. Also, it will defragment the PC registry to remove or delete some useless / invalid entries which will cause computer slow, freezing and crashing, returning you a completely compact registry. In this way, it will greatly optimize the PC performance, making it always run at top speed.
So, if you are very troubled with your slow and wants to reduce the fragmentation on the computer, please go to have a free trial of this advanced program. Believe me, it will bring you a faster computer running like it is new.
Trying to fix your slower computer? Defragment it easily with Advanced Defrag to speed it up
Nov 8th
No matter what the computer is used for, as times by, it will become slower and slower because of the disk (file) fragments. So a disk defragmentation is needed in order to always speed up the computer.
Normally, we can easily defragment the computer with windows built-in disk defragmenter by simply right click the disk to be defragmented to select Properties, and then click Defragment to begin the defragment process. But in many cases, it will take some time to finish the whole process based on the stored files and the capacity of the hard disk, normally, it takes around an hour or more to defragment a disk which is only 1 GB, needless to say one is as large as 300 GB. That is why defrag program are popular with lots of computer users nowadays.
Compared with windows built-in defragmenter, defrag programs are designed to provide users very advanced defragment technology, which ensures a complete and faster analysis of fragments found on the hard disk and then quickly reassemble the files into a complete (stay close together and contiguously), so as to greatly optimize PC performance and speed up the computer. When having problems in defragmenting my slower computer, I went to try a program named Advanced Defrag because of the recommendation of my friend, and found that it was really useful in defragmenting computer and fixing slower computer.
First of all, let us have a glance at why I love this program so much：
1) Speedily defragment the hard disk. Within this defrag program, we are provided very advanced defragment algorithm so it takes only a few minutes to analyze the fragmentation on the hard disk, and completely defragment the computer within only several minute. Normally, it won’t take more than 15 minutes to defragment any volume.
2) Completely defragment the PC registry. Superior to other defrag programs, this program provides us a choice to defragment the PC registry. Normally, after selecting the registry volume and the a click on the Analyze or Defragment will help to begin the defragment process on the PC registry, which will not only make the registry compact all the time, but always remove some invalid or useless registry entries, preventing the computer from slowing down, freezing or crashing.
3) Real-time defragment feature. With this function, we can set it to automatically defragment the computer in a specific time, for example, the break time. Hence, after a relaxing break, you can always work with a complete clean and faster computer, which will greatly increase your working efficiency and let you enjoy every day with the computer.
4) Clearly detailed- web analysis report. Compared with the fuzzy report of windows built-in defragmenter, this defrag program provides very detailed report after we click Analyze button, which show where the fragments locates on the computer, and the percentage of fragments and advice where to defragment the computer or not. Moreover, after defragmenting the computer by clicking “Defragment” button, we will also receive a report telling us the fragments before and after the defragment process, letting us defragment clearly and smartly.
5) Very easy- to- use user interface. The pie-chart design and the big buttons on its main interface make everything simple and straightforward. As long as you can use computer, you can handle with this defragment program easily.
In sum, with the help of this program, I was able to fix my slower computer effectively and enjoy every day with the computer. If you are annoyed with your slower computer right know, please go to defragment it easily with Advanced Defrag. It will help you speed up the computer quickly.
Disk Defragmentation—How to Defragment Disk Properly
Nov 9th
I am quite sure that most users have known defragmentation can speed up computer and also tried to defragment disks in hope that computers can run fast like new. It is true that defragmentation is a good choice, but before defragmenting disk, you are supposed to learn how to do it properly in order to save your time and energy.
In fact, defragmentation is not an easy job if you want to do it manually.
You should make full preparation ahead of defragmentation, such as clear up the junks, check error and then you are able to defragment disk properly and perfectly.
The first step is to clean up junk files or information in the hard disk. You may not realize that how many junks are accumulating when operating the system. As a matter of fact, the junks are produced by various channels, for examples, temporary files created by installing application, cache files left by browsing the Internet, DLL files produced by deleting the software or error files when shutting down computer forcedly. All of the files mentioned above belong to junk files, so you can imagine what a large garbage dump the computer has to serve as. In this regard, you can get rid of those junks so that share the burden of defragmenting disk.
As for how to remove those disturbing junks, different people may choose different ways. Some green hands are likely to use Disk Cleanup program provided by Microsoft, while old hands prefer to use more powerful tools like Advanced Defrag or do it manually.
Then, for checking and restoring the disk errors, you can choose the disk scanning program of Windows, of course, on the condition that you have enough time and patience. I am sure through such long and time-consuming scanning, you can restore most errors. That is right, just most errors. And, if you want to cover all the mistakes, you should take a professional defragmenting tool into consideration.
After all the preparation done perfectly, you can start disk defragmentation in the Windows. You can start from “All Programs”/ “Accessories”/ “System Tools”/ “Disk Defragmenter”, in the dialog box, you can choose the partition to defragment and then click “OK”. Now, all you have to do is waiting. You know the defragmentation of Windows is really a long process. Normally, you have to wait for at least one hour for a partition with two GB memory.
Therefore, I really recommend you to close down all the other running programs including screensaver and to adjust the virtual memory as fixed value. Do not perform any read-write operation during this process, because if the Disk Defragment finds any change in the file, it starts the defragmentation again and again. And you should control the times of defragmenting disk. If you do that hourly, it is no doubt that it can shorten the usage of the hard disk.
All in all, all the things you do just aims to speed up computer by defragmenting disk. So, if you are tired of doing that manually, you can try a professional tool named “Advanced Defrag” which is outstanding of its kinds.
Disk defragmentation — Get rid of disk fragmentation and regain faster computer speed
Nov 10th
Defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in the computer hard disk and rearranges the files located on the disk, making pieces of each file stay close together and contiguously. Hence, it will be much easier to access to the file and speed up the computer.
But in our daily life, lots of people have never run a disk defragmentation during the lifetime of their computers. When noticing that the computer is running slow, what they always do is to find some very stuck methods trying to fix it, without realizing that the large amount of fragmentation on the disk may be the main reason for the slow computer, and they can easily regain a faster computer speed with a disk defragmentation. If you are crazy with your extremerely slow computer, please do not miss your computer, especially you are not so professional on computers.
When should you defragment it?
First of all, we know that disk / file fragmentation comes inevitably when revolves with the allocation of the files on the computer. When it is impossible for the operating system to allocate a large enough contiguous space for a file as an unit, the file will be cut into different parts and put in the gaps between other files instead (usually those gaps come because they formerly held a file but now it was deleted or removed). The more fragmentation on the computer, the more time it will cost to reassemble all parts of the same contents together when trying to read/ write it. So to always regain a faster computer speed, it is recommended that you can defragment the computer weekly. But please defragment the computer immediately under the below circumstances:
1) When installing new programs or new version of the windows update on the computer.
2) When storing large amount of files/folders on the computer.
3) When there is only or less than 15% free available hard disk space.
How should you defragment it?
To defragment your computer, it is very easy to use the windows built-in disk defragmenter to begin the defragmentation process. You can go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tool and then select Disk Defragmenter. Here, please first select the volume you want to defragment, and then click the Analyze button to see where it is needed to defragment or not. Normally, you should defragment it when the fragmentation rate is larger than 10%. But if you have never run a disk defragmentation before, it is recommended that you directly press Defragment button to begin the defragment process.
How can you quickly defragment it?
In many cases, it takes a lot of time to get through a disk defragmentation with windows built-in defragmenter. When defragmenting my computer, it cost about three hours to defragment a hard disk which is 3 GB large. So the easiest way, which is my favorite way is to defragment the computer with a defrag program for I can offer the time, but I can’t always deal with my slower computer. In my opinion, it will be much easier for me to get rid of the disk defragmentation and regain faster computer speed with a trusted defrag program.
Here, to quickly defragment your computer, I recommend you to use Advanced Defrag in particular. It will not only help you defragment the hard disk / Pc registry, but also provides you a choice to real-time defragment the computer. Tried of your slower computer? It is time to run a disk defragmentation and regain faster computer speed right now.
Startup problems — How to deal with slow startups
Nov 11th
No matter what the computer is used for, I believe it will hardly be a pleasant experience to find it run slow at startup. Here, some solutions will be discussed on how to fix this startup problem, and to speed up computers at startups.
If your computer always boots slow, maybe you can consider adding a new RAM to completely speed up the computer. But if it used to run fairly fast, but suddenly become slower, it will be a little abnormal. But the solutions below may help you.
1) Scan the computer for virus and malware
As we all know once the computer is infected by virus or malware, it will become extremely slow at startups. So a scan is necessary. But before the scan, please first update your anti-virus program to ensure a completely latest virus database.
2) Optimize startup programs
When using the computer, we will always install programs on the computer. Some will add entries to startup automatically when windows startup. To deal with a slow startup, you must learn to turn off some programs that do not need to start up at booting up the computer. You can go to Start -> Run -> type msconfig and press Enter to access Startup. Here, you can delete entries that do not need to automatically run at windows startup. But please do not turn off the anti-virus program because of the real-time safeguard of the computer.
3) Defragment and optimize PC registry
During startup, windows system will read the relevant data in registry and most startup time is spent on this process. So it becomes necessary to regularly defragment and optimize the PC registry. Because of the blooming development of the Internet technology, it is very easy for us to get access to some very advanced registry cleaner from the internet. But no matter which program you are using, it is recommended to first back up the registry before.
4) Regularly maintain system.
Too many installed PC games, programs on the computer will also cause a slow computer and startup, so it is better to thorough maintain the entire system. You can go to Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Maintenance Wizard and then click “Yes” to begin the maintenance process, keeping the computer always run at maximum optimization. Besides, to solve a computer slow startup, a disk defragmentation is needed regularly for it will rearrange the files on the hard disk, making all parts of a file always stay close together and contiguously. In this way, it will be much easier to get access to when trying to read / read it, and speed up the computer.
Normally, we can defragment the computer directly by going to Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools, and then select Disk Defragmenter. This will significantly make the computer run faster at startups. But from a questionnaire, we find that nowadays, more and more people prefer to defragment their computers with a third-party defrag program rather than the stubborn windows built-in Disk Defragmenter for it always cost very long time to get through the defragment process.
So here, in order to effectively solve the startup problem and speed it up, I recommend you to use Advanced Defrag, which will help your quickly defragment your computer thoroughly, making it not only run faster at startup, but also during the whole process of using the computer. If you want to have a faster computer, go to have a try of this wonderful program.
Reclaim faster computer speed — simple methods you can do to speed up your computer
Nov 12th
Regarding that many aspects resulting in a slower computer, it is available for us to reclaim faster computer speed from many different sides. But no matter how your computer is running right now, if you want to always enjoy faster computer speed, please do not miss this article, which tells some very simple ways you can do in daily life to speed up your computer.
1. Regularly scan the computer for virus
To always speed up the computer, first it is necessary for you to install an anti-virus program and regularly scan the computer for virus, which will protect the computer from being attached by any virus or malware. We know that once the computer is infected by a virus/malware, lots of resources will be taken when running the computer. So in my opinion, this is the first one you need to do in order to always speed up your computer.
2. Uninstall some unwanted programs
Normally, the programs install on the computer will always take lots of disk space. The unwanted programs on the hard disk will not only waste the hard disk space, but also make the system files( for example ddi、ini files) become bloated because the system will automatically modify these files when installing programs on the computer, greatly slow down the computer and reduce the working efficiency. So if you find the program is not needed any not, please do not hesitate to uninstall it from your computer in order to reclaim faster computer speed.
3. Effectively manage the hard disk.
Basically, the more programs installed in the current version, the more frequent hard disk’s input and output will be. So if we can speed up disk visiting time, we can speed up the computer easily. To accomplish it, we can effort from the two sides below:
1) Regularly clean up the unneeded files/folders. The computer will become very slow shen there is not enough available free space/memory for the computer. Hence, a cleanup of the junk files, temporary files from the computer is needed in order to release more free space.
2) Regularly defragment the computer.
We know that after being used for some time, the computer will become fragmented day by day because of the fragmentation on the computer. So a disk defragmentation is necessary to rearrange all parts of the same file locate at only a single place in order to always easier to get access to.
From a questionnaire, we find that lots of computer users are not very satisfied with the built-in derfragmenter provided by Microsoft for it always consume very longer time in thoroughly defragmenting the computer. Take my own experience as an example, it took more than three hours to completely defragment my C drive which is only several GB.large.
So here, to reclaim faster computer speed, it is much better that you can depend on a professional defrag program to defragment the whole computer. Because of the advice of my friend, I went to have a try with a defrag tool named Advanced Defrag, and find that it can not only speedily defragment the hard disk, but also defragment the PC registry. Believe me, you can easily speed up your computer with the help of this defrag program.
Daily Computer maintenance — Tips you should know to optimize PC performance
Nov 12th
As we all know that, computers are the same as human beings which need to be taken care of. If so, it will always work at the maximum optimization status and extent the lifespan. On the contrary, firstly, this will some serious problems appearing like some important data lost improvably, computer crashes every two or three days, or unable to complete the scheduled work; secondly, this will significantly shorten the lifespan of the computer. So we can say that daily computer maintenance is necessary in order to optimize PC performance.
Normally, computer maintenance contains two parts: hardware and software maintenance.
Hardware maintenance means that it is needed to do some jobs like cleaning dust. After being used for sometime, the computer may get dusty inside for the fan that pulls hot air outsides are always pulling in air, which laden with tiny particles of dust. When these particles cling to electronics, they act like a blanket to hold in heat. And the dusts always stay at the biggest heat producers like CPU, heatsink, and video card. So a cleaning dust is necessary regularly in order to maintain the PC performance. If possible, please keep the area around your computer as dust-free as possible.
Software maintenance, including protecting the computer from being attached by virus, and regularly deleting the unnecessary system junk files, running a disk defragment is necessary in optimizing PC performance. Here, there is no need to talk about the importance of the anti-virus program to the computer for it is known to all that it is a must in order to protect the computer, but instead, we will particularly discuss the parts that always be neglected by lots of PC users when maintaining the computer: junk files cleanup and disk defragmentation.
When using the computer it is inevitably for us to surf websites and download programs, which always bring some useless temporary file on the computer. They do nothing but harm to the computer. So it is necessary for us to clean up the system junk files in a regular basic. I found that there is an article tells very detailed information on junk files cleanup . If you want more information, you can go here for more detailed information.
Besides, a disk defragmentation is indispensible in daily computer maintenance for it will rearrange the contents on the hard disk in order to making a complete file always stays at the same single place coherently and contiguously, Hence it will be much easier to get access to when trying to input or output it. Therefore, the computer may always run at faster speed and also extent the lifespan of the hard disk and the computer.
It is known to most PC users that they can defragment the computer with windows built-in defragmenter by directly going to Start and then All Programs, Accessories and system tools. But here, in order to greatly optimize PC performance, I recommend you to use Advanced Defrag which is very suitable to solve modern big volume hard disk. It can not only speedily defragment the computer, but also provides you very unique features to maintain your computer like defragment PC registry, real-time defragment and completely web-report. With this defrag tool in hand, I believe you can maintain your computer without any problem.
In a word, there are many details that you can do to maintain the computer, but please do not miss the importance of disk cleanup and disk defragmentation, which will help you greatly optimize PC performance.
Improve Computer Speed—Defragment Disk is Helpful for Speeding up Computer
Nov 12th
Slow computer is really disturbing for all the users. Most would like to use anti-virus software to detect the whole system. But, sometimes it may fail in improving computer speed. If so, what will you do next? In fact, disk defragment is quite helpful for you to speed up computer. If you have not made your mind to defragment disk yet, it is the article that can help you make decision.
Some users may fear whether defragmentation can harm disks or not and if it is necessary to defragment any more.
First of all, the defragmentation can help you collect the separated file clusters in the disk to improve the data reading speed and clear up junk file clusters in the hard disk track. Do you know that every time computer goes crushed, it may create many useless system files which can waste a lot of space. If you turn a blind eye to this underlying problem, it can hinder your computer performance in the future. What is more, a correct defragmentation can help you isolate the broken hard disk space and hold back the data to write on them, so you do not worry the data may be lost.
Then, as for defragmentation, you have to pay attention to some aspects. Whether defragmentation may harm disk or not is mainly based on how frequent you defragment disk. If you do that hourly, your disk can not bear for sure. That is to say, you should do that at proper intervals according to different situations. If there is small numbers of fragments, frequent defragmentation can do harm to disk and shorten its usage without question. But normally, it is better for you to do that once a week.
You can choose to defragment by using defrag of Windows, but it is really slow. In this regard, I recommend you not to use the system disk defragmenter. It is not only time-consuming and inefficient but also disturbing. You have to wait for a long time and can not do nothing but just letting it defragment. This is because any read-write operation can hinder the process of defragmentation, what is worse, it may cause to start the whole process again and again instead of completing the task. Therefore, are you willing to use it any more?
Here, I suggest to download a better defrag to manage your frequently-used disks by its powerful defragmenting function. it embraces high speed and efficiency and can optimize your files as well. You need to have a try of it by clicking here.
Windows system maintenance — 4 tips to maintain computer skillfully
Nov 13th
When finding some solutions from the Internet, we will get many ways to maintain windows system. But here, some very simple ways will tell you how to maintain your computer to get faster computer speed in daily life.
1) Regularly defragment the computer
We all know that a fragmented hard disk will significantly make a computer sluggish for it always takes very longer time to reassemble all parts of the same files locate at a single place of the hard disk. So a regular disk defragmentation is needed in order to make the computer always work at peak performance. To accomplish it, you can go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tool -> Disk Defragmenter to begin the defragment process. If there are many hard disks, please defragment them one by one. But to enjoy faster defragment process, it is recommended that you can rely on a professional defrag program such as Advanced Defrag to defragment your computer.
2) Periodically clean up the registry
Some invalid registries will be left in the PC registry after surfing the Internet or uninstalling some files from the computer bloated day by day. Sometime, these entries will cause a computer slowdown, freezing-up or crashes. So if time permits, please clean up the registry in a regular basic to maintain the windows system. Effortlessly, you can get access to kinds of registry cleaners from the net, with which you can effectively manage the PC registry. But please remember to first back up the registry before every cleanup.
3) Be careful with the programs on your computer
When installing programs on your computer, it is recommended that you can first search the Internet to see whether it is a malware or not. Also, when finding a program is not necessary, remember to uninstall it from the computer in time.
4) Always update your anti-virus/spyware programs.
As we all know that virus will always create garbage in the PC registry, automatically load some unnecessary services and things that will reduce the PC performance. So it is necessary to always update the anti-virus installed on your computer to make sure that you are always using the latest virus database.
With the simple details above, you can easily maintain windows system and speed up the computer all the time. But here, I just want to emphasize one aspect that always be neglected by lot of PC users — disk defragmentation. Some think that it is a waste of time for it always consumes very long time to go through the defragment process. But please bear in mind that a simple disk defragmentation will help us to rearrange the files locating on the hard disk, making them always stay close and coherently. Hence, it will greatly improve the disk visiting time, and then speed up the computer.
So in order to always enjoy faster computer speed, please do not belittle the importance of a defragmentation, which helps greatly improve windows system performance. Also, with the good habits above, you can not only easily maintain your PC performance, but also extent the lifespan of the whole computer.
Disk Defragment—Useful Tips for You about Defragmentation
Nov 16th
Disks serve as storage for your computer. It restores all the files of computer and the system can read and write them from the disks in return. And every time when the disks are going to be occupied excessively, the computer will remind you kind-hearted that disk space is low.
However, such notification can be annoying sometimes, since the always popping up prompt may disturb you a lot. The less disk space is, the more notifications are. Therefore, you can take some measures to forbid system reminding you disturbingly.
It is no doubt that if you have put a large number of files in the disk and there is less and less space in it, the computer will remind you tirelessly and you have to bear it patiently. Well, here is a method to help you forbid such notification.
That is you can close down such notification by revising registry.
First of all, click “Start”—“Run”, type “regedit” in the dialog box and then click “OK”. In the “Registry Editor”, find the entry of “HKEY CURRENT USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer” in the left column, and find the key value of “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” in the right.
If this exists, you can change the value from 0 to 1, since “0” is the default value. Double-click the key and change it in the “Edit String” dialog box.
But if there is no such value, you can add a new one by choosing “New/ DWORD Value” in the Edit menu and type “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” in it and then press “Enter”. You should make sure that there is not any blank among all the words. This should be a long variable name. Then, double-click the new key and also revise the value into “1”. At last, click “OK”, exit “Registry Editor” and restart your computer. You may find that the disturbing notification has disappeared completely.
Since you have closed down the low disk space notification, it is a must for you to defragment disk regularly in order to free up disk space. No matter you prohibit such notification or not, the disk fragments can not disappear automatically. Therefore, if you want to keep your computer in a good state, you should remove disk fragments on time.
Although you have shut down the low disk space notification, it does not mean that you can turn a cold shoulder to it. Disk fragments can takes up the space gradually. If you do not pay enough attention to them, the excessive fragments can hinder your computer speed and system performance.
Disks, the storage of computer, can be overstaffed by files and junk ones especially. If you have check the disks regularly, you may find that there are too many files in the disks, use or useless. As a matter of fact, you can delete some of them to free up disk because those are junk files. And such files include the temporary and some backup ones. Therefore, you can delete them in the folders named “Cookies”, “Temp”, “Temporary Internet Files”, and “History” in the “c:\Documents and Settings\Username” and “Temp”, “ServicePackFiles” and “Driver Cache” in the “c:\WINDOWS.
After getting rid of those files, the next step is to defragment disk. In order to save your time and energy, it is wise for you to use a more professional tool than the disk defragmenter of Windows. You canclick here to find such useful defrag.
Clean up windows update backup files — Effectively maintain hard disks
Nov 16th
As we all know that there are some backup files creating when installing a Windows hotfix or service pack update. Hence, a restore job will be easy when necessary. After studying, we found that it becomes a true fact that these backup files will only take up hard disk space, and a cleanup of the old backup files with windows update will free up more available hard disk space so as to effectively maintain it. If you have never heard about this, please do not miss this article for more professional advice.
For all computer users, at some point or other, they will find that the hard disk is becoming smaller and smaller even thought they have not installed any program on the computer. One main reason is the junk files on the hard disk. To clean up the disk garbage, it is very easy for us to use the Disk Cleanup utility provided by Microsoft by simply going thorough: My Computer -> right click the drive to be cleaned up -> Priorities -> press Disk Cleanup within the General tab, after that, please select the file types you want to delete within the popping-up windows. Hence, you can easily get rid of some unwanted junk files from your computer. But please note that, there is another type of junk files existing in the hard disk, which takes more hard disk space and normally can not be cleaned up by Disk Cleanup utility. That is windows update files.
So to more effectively maintain hard disks and free available space, it is necessary for you to delete these windows update files from the computer. Since these files are stored in hidden folders, first you have to make them visible: open My Computer, and then Tools to select Folder Options, and then go to View at the top, tick Show hidden files and folders within the tab “Hidden files and folders”; and then please go to C:\WINDOWS, here you can see some files named begin or end with “$”, for example, “$NtUninstallKB943460$”. These are windows update files. However, if days or weeks pass and your computer is running perfectly without any problem, then it is time to delete those backed up old files from your hard drive.
But that is not enough to just delete the backed up files on the hard disk for there must be some leftover entries left in the registry, so it is still needed to check the registry to delete some associated entries. Normally, it is possible for you to delete the entries beginning with K8 within the tab HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall, which will not affect the proper running of the windows.
After the steps to clean up the windows update files above, you will regain more available free space. Then you can store what you like on the hard disk without worrying about the limited reserved space.
But here, it is necessary to mention that in order to maintain the hard disks, a cleanup of the hard disk junk files is far from being enough. When storing files or programs on the computer, there will be some disk or file fragments occurring, which hardens the workload of the hard disk head, making it move too much to access the file to be read or wrote. Thus shortens the lifespan of the hard disks. So a simple disk defragmentation is needed to maintain the hard disks in order to store the same files at a same place and easier to get access to.
In a word, to maintain hard disks, it is necessary for you to not only delete the system junk files, but also regularly defragment the hard disks. If you do not know how to quickly defragment your computer, try Advanced Defrag here. It will help you easily and quickly defragment any drive.
Defragment Windows XP —How to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP
Nov 17th
In Windows XP computer, the existence of Hiberfil.sys file makes it impossible to thoroughly run a disk defragmentation. Here, we will emphasize on how to remove it to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP.
Lots of XP users prefer to use the hibernation function for it will save the time to turn off the computer. But please note that there will be a file named hiberfil.sys generating when the computer goes into hibernation mode. Normally, hibernation takes everything in memory and writes it to your hard drive as the hiberfil.sys file, that is, the hiberfil.sys will be about 512MB if you have 512MB of memory and around 1GB if you have 1GB. When the computer is restored to normal mode, Windows XP will not automatically erase this file but leave it on the hard disk intact, taking up large amount of disk space. If you have ever carefully looked through the defragment analysis report when defragmenting your XP computer, you will find that there are some files that cannot be defragmented, and one of them is hiberfil.sys file, which becomes a stumbling block of a thorough defragmentation but not only a waste of hard disk space . So it is time to delete it from your computer without consideration in order to ensure a thorough XP defragmentation and free up more available free space.
Normally, this file is located hidden under C:\, and we can manually delete it from the computer. But it is recommended that you can use the below method to automatically delete it: go to Start, and then Control Panel and run Power Options, click on Hibernate tab and uncheck “Enable hibernation”, click Ok to save the settings. Then, the generated Hiberfil.sys file will be automatically removed from your computer and you will get back your hard disk space.
After the removal of this file, you can go to defragment you computer. Believe me, it will help you much faster defragment your XP computer. But this is not enough to ensure a thorough and faster defragmentation. If you want more detailed information , please be patient to read through this article.
When defragmenting windows XP, there are many things that we can do to ensure a complete and fast defragment process, Here are some what you can accomplish:
1) Run a Disk Cleanup before the defragment process: open My Computer -> right click the drive to be cleaned up -> Priorities -> press Disk Cleanup within the General tab to begin the process.
2) Run an error-checking before the defragmentation: open My Computer -> right click the drive to select Priorities ->Tools -> Error-checking.
3) Turn off other running programs (or boot the computer into safe mode) before the defragmentation to prevent some unassociated interference.
With the steps above, it will be much faster to defragment your Windows XP computer, but if your hard disk is as large as 300 GB, it seems to be a little difficult (or terrible) to defragment it with windows built-in defragment utility for it will take a very long time to finish the whole defragment process. For me, I prefer to defragment my XP computer with a professional defrag program like Advanced Defrag to ensure a thorough defragmentation effectively.
In conclusion, a removal of the Hiberfil.sys file before the disk defragmentation is necessary to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP. But in order to save both your time and energy, it is wise to defragment it with a special designed defrag utility, Maybe you can click here to find something valuable.
Disk Defragment—Main Causes of Disk Fragments
Nov 18th
Even there is not any virus in your computer, it still cannot work fast as before, why? If you are an experienced computer user, it does not seem difficult for you, because you can defragment disks when the computer is becoming slow. It is really a good method to optimize computer performance.
Well in this article, I will tell you the main causes of disk fragments in a hope that it can help you prevent the disk fragments in advance.
The major cause should be blamed for the virtual memory programs. If there is not enough physical memory to run the application, the operating system can produce temporary swap files in the hard disks. Such file virtualizes the hard disk space as memory so its program can do massive read-write operations to the disk and create fragments. At the same time, during operating the files such as moving or deleting, Windows system may apply virtual memory to manage applications synchronically which may lead to the frequent read-write operations of every program to hard disks. This is another main resource of disk fragments.
What is more, if any sector is removed and then the system reads a new and smaller file into it, there may be some empty space beside this file. And if the system continues to write more files into this disk, the space between those two files can not put any new one any more. That is to say, the file has to be divided into several parts in order to put in the disk. See, file fragments are produces again.
If you are a movie fan and like to download from Internet, you have to pay close attention to the disk fragment problem. Once you are doing other operations during the downloading process, the film files are forced to separate into certain fragments and restore in the disk. So, downloading is one of the main causes of disk fragments. Besides, if file space is not large enough to support the frequent deleting and adding files operations, it can bring about a huge number of disk fragments as well. Such problem can go from bad to worse on the condition that you do that hourly.
Generally speaking, sometimes you may not be aware that when browsing websites or playing games, it can produce a mass of temporary files in the computer. Or when downloading video in your hard disks, it is easy to produce a lot of disk fragments. If you find computer performance is not so good as before, I suggest you to defragment disk firstly.
When performing defragmentation, please close down screen saver and do not do anything else in the computer such as listening music or playing game but just let defragmenting program run by itself. By doing this, you can not only speed up defragmenting speed but also prevent the program from starting again and again.
In order to facilitate the speed of defragmentation, you can also use certain defrag to help you. By using it, you can also protect your computer from any unexpected accidents during defragmentation.
Slow Windows 7? How to speed up Windows 7 easily and instantly
Nov 18th
Windows 7, which was said to be the faster operating system by Microsoft, will gradually slow down if being used for some time. If you are using this brand-new operating system, it is necessary to learn how to speed up slow windows 7 to enjoy every day with the computer.
When trying to install this operating system, please see whether your computer meet the below requirements:
1) 1 GHz (gigahertz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
2)1 GB (gigabyte) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
3)16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
4) DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
If your computer configuration meets the above requirements, you can install the Windows 7 operating system without any problem. But when noticing the computer is running slow, you can effort from the aspects below to speed up windows 7.
1) Check your computer to see whether there are many unwanted programs installing on the computer, which will only waste the hard disk space and take up computer memory. If so, please go to Start, All Programs and then Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs to uninstall the unneeded programs,
2) See whether there are too many unnecessary programs that run automatically when starting up Windows 7, which will result in s slow computer. You can go to Start, and then Run, type “msconfig” and press Enter to get into computer Service. Here, please carefully look at the startup list and then uncheck the programs that do not need to run at Windows 7 startup.
3) Clean up the windows registry periodically. It will be very easy for you to download some free registry cleaners for Windows 7 from the Internet, keeping the registry impact forever.
4) Regularly defragment the hard disk. Even though Windows 7 is said to be smarter and more efficient, there still disk fragments occur when involving to the allocation of files to free space on a magnetic disk. The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost when inputting/ outputting the files, significantly slow down the computer. So to effectively speed up Windows 7, a periodical disk defragmentation is necessary.
To defragment Windows 7, it will be very easily to go through Start => All Programs => Accessories => System Tool to select Disk Defragmenter. Here, you can select the volume to be defragmented and the click “Analyze” and then “Defragment” to begin the disk defragmentation. You can select to defragment the volume one by one, and select all simultaneously. But in my opinion, to much faster defragment your Windows 7, it is better to depend on a professional defrag utility like Advanced Defrag rather than use the built-in defragmenter for it consumes too much time in finishing the defragment process.
When experiencing a slow Windows 7, I tried to run a disk defragmentation because of the advice of a computer repairer, but gave up halfway for the slower efficiency of the built-in defragmenter. Finally, I managed to carry out a thorough defragmentation quickly with the assistance of this powerful defrag program, which helps not only defragment the hard disks, but also the windows registry. Now I have passed the 7-day free trial period and registered a full version of Advanced Defrag in order to real-time defragment my Windows 7. So if you are annoyed to spend hours on defragmenting your computer, try this one. It will help you get the job finished in a few minutes.
As you can see that there are many aspects that you can do to speed up Windows 7, but please do not belittle the powerful function of a simple disk defragmentation when trying to speed up your slow Windows 7.
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.
Why It Is Must for You to Defragment Disks Regularly
Nov 19th
I am sure that you hope your computer can always work very well without any problem. To be honest, it is not so easy to do that. But you can do some maintenance for your computer.
If you want to protect your computer, defragmentation is really a useful way to do that. But if you still fear that it can harm your computer, you can find the answer in this article.
In order to explain it specifically, let us see how the disk fragments are produced.
The files in the disk are kept in order based on the restored time. Theoretically, such files should be put closely without any space between them. However, it is unavoidable for you to change files such as deleting or moving them. Well, the new added or removed content is not put into the original position but the end of disk restoring space. And the system will make mark between the original and added files.
As time goes by, when many files are changed, there are a bunch of discontinuous files in the disk. Or if you delete any of them, its space becomes empty and can not be filled automatically. And, the new ones cannot put here any more and on the contrary, such space cannot restore new files, too. In this way, the empty space is wasted and can results in disk fragments.
Just as I mentioned above since the plus content and previous one are separated, if you want to view them, the disk head has to read and write them back and forth. This is one of the main causes of slow computer speed. System has to pay more time to fetch such files. If you still turn a blind eye to such problem, the computer will be lagged by such increasingly piling up disk fragments.
You can defragment disk by using the Windows program or the other tools like “Advanced Defrag” . But if there is a GHOST system backup file in the partition, you should not defragment this disk because it can lead to the system go awry when restoring. That is to say, before defragmentation, you should check the disks first.
And if it can neither analyze nor defragment disk in the normal condition, you can do that under “Safe Mode”. You can press “F8” when starting up computer. Because in the “Safe Mode” the system does not have to load much more programs than in the normal condition. At last, if it can not defragment disk, you should check whether there is any broken track in the disk. if so, it can hinder the process of defragmentation.
You see, if you have not done that, it is urgent for you to defragment disk now. To say the least, defragmentation can not do any harm to your computer, it is worthwhile having a try.
Lower disk space on C drive — Some must-known tips to release disk space
Nov 19th
Lots of PC users will find that the available disk space on C drive is becoming slower and slower (sometimes less than 10 Megabyte) as days by. Even though a removal of some unnecessary files on C drive can solve the problem of lower disk space, please note that the files on C drive are mostly program / system files which can not be directly deleted as what you can do on other drives, for it will mess or crash the entire system when being deleted incorrectly. So how do you release more available space for C drive? Here, some tips you must know.
First of all, it is known that normally programs will be installed on C drives, which take large amount of hard disk space. So to release more available hard disk space, what you need to do first is to uninstall some unwanted programs from your computer by going to Start, Control Panel and then Add/Remove Programs. Please remember not to delete the program files directly.
Secondly, clean up C drive regularly to free up hard disk space. Have you ever noticed that Microsoft provides us a utility named Disk Cleanup to manually clean up the system junk files from the computer? If no, it is time for you the use it to clean up the generating system junk files from your computer by going to My Computer, right click the C drive to select “Properties” and then press “Disk Cleanup” within “General” to begin the begin the process, then you can select the file types to be cleaned up. With this simple cleanup process, more available hard disk space will be released.
Thirdly, move some directories to other drives. By default, directories like My Documents, IE temporary files will be automatically located on C drive. So we can move them to other drives (take D drive as an example) to release disk space.
1) Move My Documents to D drives: right click My Documents to select Properties and then click “Move” under the tab “Target folder location” to select the new location, and click “Ok” to save the change.
2) Move IE temporary folder: first go to create a new directory in D drive, and then go to Start -> Control Panel -> Internet -> click Settings within Internet Temporary Files -> click “Remove folders” to the directory you just created.
3) If you prefer to download programs/ movies from the Internet, please remember to change the default directory C: Download (Downloads) to other drive.
Last, to release disk space, please disable System Restore or Hibernation for they will also take up more hard disk space. First, please right click My Computer to select Properties, System Restore and tick “Turn off System Restore”. Then, you can go to Start -> Control Panel -> Power Options -> click on Hibernate tab -> uncheck “Enable hibernation”, click Ok to save the settings.
With the simple tips above, you can release more available disk space for C drive. Hence, you can store what you like on the computer easily. But it is still necessary to mention here that a disk defragmentation is needed in order to maintain the hard disk for too much fragments scattered on the disk will hinder the computer to run fast as before. Once a single content is located at the same place close and contiguously, it will reduce the time to input / output it.
In conclusion, we can release disk space easily for C drive, but to more effectively maintain it, a simple disk defragmentation is necessary. If you like, you can simply click here to have a try with a very powerful defrag program
Defragment Windows Vista clearly— Simplest way for you to speed up Vista in minutes
Nov 20th
For all Vista users, how to simply speed up Vista will probably be the first thing consideration when it comes to PCs. No matter when you searching the Internet, you will get many solutions which you can do to speed up your Windows Vista, please do not forget to regularly defragment it to speed it up in minutes.
The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost to input and output files when necessary for it requires the hard disk space to move too much to reassemble all units of the files to stay together. Hence, it will greatly slow down the computer and then shorten the lifespan of the hard disk. So to speed up your windows Vista and also maintain the hard disk, a disk defragmentation is necessary.
When talking about disk defragmentation, some will ask how often I should defragment my computer. Normally it is based on the frequency that you delete or remove files from the computer. But it is recommended that your can regularly defragment the system C drive. Considering that there is no analysis report provided by Windows Vista built-in defragmenter utility, a simplest way on how to clearly defragment Windows Vista will be shown here:
1) Go to Start Menu, All Programs and then Accessories.
2) Right click “Command Prompts” to select “Run as administrator”.
3) Type the command as follow: defrag (drive letter): –a, for example, defrag c: -a, and then press Enter.
Then a generated report will appear showing the volume size, Free space, Largest free space extent, and Present file fragmentation and suggestion on whether to defragment the volume or not. But please be patient for it will take some time to generate the report which is based on the size / fragmentation of the hard disk you select.
Then you can go to Start- > All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter to directly defragment the volume that needs to be defragmented. Hence, it will speed up your Vista computer soon. But if you have ever defragmented your Windows Vista computer, you will find that it does not provide you any progress bar, what you get is “Defragmenting now” without knowing how many the used or remaining time is. It is acceptable when the hard disk is smaller capacity, but it will be annoyed or terrible to just sit there, waiting without doing anything.
So to own our experience, in order to more effectively speed up your Vista computer, I suggest that you should defragment it with a professional defrag program for they always applies with very advanced defragment algorithm, which ensures a complete and fast analysis of the fragments on the hard disk, and then quickly store them at the hard disk close and contiguously within only a few minutes. It my opinion, that is why so many PC users give away the lower-efficient windows built-in defragment utility when defragmenting their computer.
Of all the defrag programs I have used, I find that the one named Advanced Defrag will be very suitable to meet the shortage of Windows built-in Disk Defragment. It will quickly analyze and then reassemble the fragments found on the hard disk. What is more, it will provide you very detailed web-report, making the defragment process clear to all PC users.
As you can see that to speed up Vista, you can clearly defragment it with some very useful skills. If you have never run a disk defragmentation for Windows Vista computer, try it right now. You will find it valuable to speed up computer.
Computer Maintenance—Protect Your Computer by Defragmenting Disks Regularly
Nov 22nd
Although now your computer is running very well, you also have to be do something to maintain your computer performance. There are many problems hiding in the system that you have not noticed now. If you let them pile up day after day and turn a blind eye to them, it will lead to unexpected disaster for you and the computer.
Therefore, in order to prevent such problem, you should take some actions to protect your computer from now.
Besides anti-virus software, you are supposed to have other computer maintenance programs. Disk defragmentation is an indispensable choose. Disk defragmenting program aims to clear up disk fragments in the system. It can search various fragments in the whole disk. It is useful for you to free up disk space by defragmenting the disks. Even there is still abundant space in the disk, you have to perform defragmenting program regularly. By doing this, you can not only keep system tidy but also optimize computer performance.
Do you know the process of producing disk fragments? As the name suggests, they are put separately in the disk which are supposed to belong to a file. If system wants to fetch this file, it must search all the parts of the file and collect them together. That is why the system has to spend more time in reading and writing this file. This is the working process of fetching a file that is invisible for you. And what you can find is that it takes longer and longer time to open a file. If you let it drift, it can shadow your computer performance and even shorten the usage of hard disks.
Apart from removing and adding files, there are many resources of disk fragments. No matter you browse on the Internet or download files or movie, disk fragments are produced forcibly. And the usage of virtual memory can lead to disk defragment as well. As a result, you should know that no matter how careful you use the computer, fragments in the disk are quite unavoidable for you and your computer. For computer, it must run programs by carrying so many useless junks; for you, the computer is running slower and slower and anti-virus software can not find any problem.
No matter you use the Windows program or other programs, please remember to close down screen saver program and do not do anything else during defragmentation, such as listening to music or playing games. If you want to finish defragmenting disk to perform other operations, it is advisable for you and computer to let defragmenting program work alone. It is rather slow on condition that you use disk defragmenter of Windows. If you want to save you time and energy, you are welcome to use third-party tools such as “Advanced Defrag”.
All in all, if you want to maintain your computer correctly and perfectly, it is necessary for you to defragment disk and do that regularly.
Disk Defragmentation — Your solution to a slower computer
Nov 23rd
Of all the complaints among computer problems, the most common one that encountered by lots of computer users is that their computer take very longer time to start up or just open a simple application. So why do you have the similar problem? Normally, the answer to your question is related to the fragments on the hard disks. The more fragments on the hard disks, the more time it will take to input or output the files, significantly slowing down the computer.
As we all know that when using the computer, it is avoidably for us to store some files/programs on the computer for further usage. Hopefully, it is better to store the same file at a single place contiguously like putting things in order in the warehouse so as to easily find them out. But in many cases, the file is cut into different parts and then located in the gaps among other files instead (gaps come from actions like deleting and removing files). Moreover, no matter what the computer is running, the entries to the hard disk are happening always. When the hard disk is fragmented, it is possible for us to read/write the file, but it will increase the movement of the hard disk head, making it move too much than ever before and then shortening its lifespan.
So to fix a slower computer and maintain the hard disk, a disk defragmentation is necessary. In my opinion, the Windows built-in disk defragmenter should be the first tool you need to run when noticing that your computer is running slower than as usual. But if you have defragmented your computer before with it, you may find that it consumes very long time to defragment the whole computer smoothly and quickly for it will either stop at the halfway or automatically skip some certain system file with the extensions like DLL, lnl. This was what I met when defragmenting my computer, so to thoroughly defragment your computer, please rely on a reliable professional defrag program in order to ensure a complete and faster defragment process.
As what you can see above, it is necessary for all computer users to regularly defragment the computer. But to always ensure a complete defragmentation, please be patient to read through this article for more useful tips.
To defragment the computer much faster, please remember to close all running programs (especially the anti-virus program and screen saver programs), and do not do anything else such as seeing movies or listening to music and so on during the defragment process, in order to throw away all other unassociated interference. If possible, it is appreciated that you can boot the computer into safe mode before the disk defragmentation. Hence, it will be much faster in defragmenting the computer.
But considering that, nowadays the size of the hard disk is much bigger than before, it is advisable for you to defragment your computer with a trusted defrag program for they always applies with very advanced defragment technology and then quickly analyze the hard disk for fragments and then reassemble them in minutes, making the computer easily run faster and also extend the lifespan of the hard disk.
Among all the defrag programs I have ever used, Advanced Defrag is the one that I love so much: easy to use and powerful in defragmenting the hard disk and the PC registry. So if you like, you can click here to have a trial.
In conclusion, a simple disk defragmentation is a must that you should do in daily life to solve and prevent a slower computer. If you have never run a disk defragmentation before, please go to defragment it immediately and it will return you a faster computer which runs like new.
Slow PC Speed—How to Optimize Computer Performance
Nov 23rd
How to optimize your computer? It is really a question for most users. It is right that sometimes the computer viruses make trouble in the computer. Or you just need to use very simple methods to speed up your computer. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Here, in this article I will mainly introduce the method of defragmenting disk to optimize computer performance.
Disk defragmentation is a process that combines and reunites the file fragments in the computer hard disk. Disk defragmentation is a tool that can help you rearrange the data and reunite the file fragments so as to accelerate computer speed efficiently. Since you restore, change or delete files in the hard disk, it can perform defragmentation to it. Normally, if you change your files, the altered information may not be put at the same place as the original ones. What is more, other changes may be put into different places. The empty space among those fragments can not restore any file. As time goes by, the files have to be separated into various parts and the space they have taken can not restore any file.
In fact, there are two ways to open disk defragmenting program in the Windows. First, you can click “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. Or, you can click “Start”—“Control Panel”—“Performance and Maintenance”—“Management Tools”—“Computer Management”, you can also find the defragmenting program in it. No matter how you open such program, you should analyze disk ahead of defragmentation.
And if there is something wrong with the disk, the defragmenting program can restore errors and problems at the very beginning, such as broken tracks. As a matter of fact, the function of disk running is to read and write. If these two working methods have any bad influence on your disk, to be honestly, the disk itself must have been broken already and it should not have any problem with defragmenting program. As for protecting disk, you had better not make collision among them and not lower the format of disk.
Besides defragmenting disk, you can try other ways to improve computer speed. Some programs in the computer can reduce PC speed when starting up computer. If you want to check problems in this regard, I suggest you to start computer under “Safe Mode”. Such mode is the original way to start up computer. In fact, starting “Safe Mode” is much slower than that of “Normal Mode”. But, if the condition is on the contrary–the former is faster than the latter, you have to take it seriously. It must be something wrong with the programs when you startup computer.
All in all, disk defragmentation is really a good method to optimize computer performance. If you are eager to solve this slow PC speed problem, you can not miss every way to achieve that goal.
How to speed up Windows XP? Simplest things you can do to speed up Windows XP instantly
Nov 24th
As we all know that nowadays computers are needed in various walks of life. As the mainstream Operating System, Windows XP operating system is used by lots of PC users. When noticing that the computer is running slower than before, some will wonder: “How to speed up Windows XP?”
This is because a slower computer is extremerely annoying, which will stop us from faster reading emails, browsing websites, searching necessary data and so on. This will greatly reduce the working efficiency and then the passion to work with computers.
Therefore, if you are among those whose want to greatly speed up your XP computer, it is very necessary for you to master some certain tips to ensure a smooth and peak PC performance, making the computer always run at top speed. Here are some very easy tips that you can do:
1) Periodically defragment the hard disk. If you are someone who has ever searched the Internet for “How to speed up Windows XP”, you would get advice to defragment your hard disk regularly for the disk fragments will make it time-consuming to get access the data stored on the computer. If no disk defragmentation for a long-term usage, the hard disk will become more and more fragmented with files storing in spread out manner, resulting in slower access of files and a slower computer speed. With a disk defragmentation, you can ensure that data and files get stored neatly and coherently, thus speeding up Windows XP. If you are unhappy with the lower-efficiency of the built-in Disk Defragmenter, you can download some best defrag programs like Advanced Defrag on the net to ensure a faster defragment process.
2) Regularly clean the PC registry. If you have often browsed the websites, you can find that there are some unwanted entries embed into the Windows Registry, which will result in computer slowdowns, freeze-ups, crashes and so on. So it is necessary for you to regularly clean the Windows registry to remove some invalid and unneeded empty registry entries. This can help you get an answer to the question: “How to speed up Windows XP”.
3) Often remove some unwanted services from the computer. When starting up the computer, some unwanted programs will automatically run at windows startup, which will slow down the computer and the data-accessing process. So to always speed up your Windows XP computer, it is necessary to look at your C drive / Service and then uninstall / disable some unwanted programs. And also, a regularly disk cleanup is needed in order to speed up Windows XP.
The three methods above are pretty easy and anyone who can use computers can handle them easily. So please do not belittle them in speeding up Windows XP, especially the one that always be neglected by lots of PC users: run a disk defragmentation at a regular basic.
Tried of slower PC performance? Do you want to speed up Windows XP in a faster and easy way? It is recommended that you can analyze and then defragment the hard disk and Windows registry with the best defrag program. After that, you will find you can simply speed up Windows XP within a few minutes.
Google Chrome Os VS Windows 7
Nov 24th
Google announced that Chrome OS will be available second half of 2010. And Google Chrome OS will initially be targeted at netbooks. They called it a Faster, safer Os. I think Bill Gate would be very angry this time.
Chrome OS Screenshot:
Windows7 Screenshot:
Optimize PC Performance—Useful Knowledge about Virtual Memory
Nov 24th
Have you ever heard of virtual memory? If not, this is the article that can help you learn some useful knowledge about virtual memory. If you have heard that, you also can get helpful methods to deal with it.
So-called virtual memory means that the system applies certain hard disk space as memory when the physical one is insufficient. But since the transmitting speed of disk is much slower than that of memory, that is why you may feel it is not so fast to use virtual memory. You should set virtual memory according to the size of memory and usage of computer. If you set the value too large, it can produce many fragments and influence computer speed seriously; if too small, it is far from using and then system will remind you the virtual memory is too low.
In the default condition, you can let Windows allot virtual memory automatically. It can adjust memory dramatically based on actual usage.
Normally, the virtual memory is one and half to three times than that of physical memory. And the minimum value is one and half to two times and two to three times of maximized one.
And I advice you not to put the virtual memory that you set and the system set in the same partition. Memory is changing dramatically. So disk fragments are easily produced in the C disk and affect system running speed. Therefore, you had better set virtual memory in larger disk that you do not use frequently, such as D or E disks. By doing this, the hourly read-write operations to hard disk can hinder the system speed. As a result, it is a must for you to set such virtual memory. As for setting virtual memory, you can right-click “My Computer”—“Properties”—“Advanced”—“Performance” and click “Advanced”. In order to change virtual memory, you can change C disk to D disk and choose “Customize” to set perfect value for you computer.
What is more, I would like to share something more than virtual memory. There is a huge data swap file in the hard disk. Such file serves as temporary place for restoring virtual memory which is used frequently by running certain applications. In this way, the system has to read and write to the main storage. You see, this is the major cause that leads to slow computer speed. Generally, the system manages default virtual memory automatically. It can adjust it based on different applications. However, such changes may put extra pressure on the system and slow down running speed. In order to prevent such problem, you had better set maximized and minimum values of virtual memory manually. You should set virtual memory properly. If you do not set virtual memory in the Windows, it is easy for you to receive the notice of “Low Memory”. So, in this regard in order to keep away from those annoying notice, you should set proper value of the virtual memory. It is advisable for you to set it in the “Virtual Memory” tab of “System Properties” in the computer.
As I mentioned above, if you do not set virtual memory correctly, it is easier to create fragments which can hinder your computer speed obviously. That is why you need a disk defragmenting program to help you clear up those fragments.
Want to optimize PC performance? Some knowledge about Windows SHS files
Nov 25th
As we all know that we can optimize PC performance in many ways, but have you ever hear about a SHS file? Do you know what it is? And how does it affect the PC performance? If not, please do not miss this article.
First of all, it is necessary for us to know what SHS file is. When using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, it is possible for us to drag and drop selected items like document text, drawing objects, and graphics to the Windows desktop. At this time, there will be a desktop icon creating for the scrap file, along with a file located on the Windows\Desktop with a .shs extension. Hence, we can say that this file is a native program document which contains the information that was selected and dragged.
With a SHS file, we can simply drag it to other documents which meet the shortage of the Windows Clipboard, only retaining the latest copied content.
From the discussion above, it seems that the SHS file will bring us more convenience. But please note that the scrap file is a special OLE object and it is impossible for us to see the shs extension in Windows operating system (except in Dos and Linux). So lots of anti-virus experts warm us to keep strong vigilance when receiving some emails with hidden extensions like shs for they may contain some malicious codes which can destroy all of your data, for example, a virus attachment named with FAMILY_PHOTO.JPG.SHS, when coming to the receiver, what he/she see maybe only FAMILY_PHOTO.JPG. Most of the time, they may select to open the attachment without consideration for .JPG is a very normal file extension, never expecting that it may contain something that will destroy the computer. So please remember not to open some files that come from unknown resources.
So how to prevent the danger that comes from SHS files? Here it what you should go: go to Start -> Run -> type Regedit to open Registry Editor -> locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.shs and then delete the default “ShellScrap” value. Hence, when running a shs file, it will pop up a window asking you to select the program to open the files.
With the method above, you can protect your computer data against some unknown malwares or viruses and then optimize PC performance. But to more effectively optimize PC performance, it is necessary for us to regularly run a disk defragmenter with the below reasons.
When using the computer, no matter what it is used for, there will be the entries to the hard disk. If the hard disk is fragmented because of the disk fragments, it will overload the movement of the hard disk head, slowing sown the computer and then shortening its lifespan.
So to optimize PC performance, it is necessary for us to take some very simple measures like disk defragmentation to always keep everything in the hard disk storing in order coherently. Hence, it will essentially speed up the computer and optimize PC performance.
Maintain computer performance — Methods to protect your compute against potential danger within SHS files
Nov 26th
When using the computer, please note that there is such kind of file: .SHS file, which maybe come to you in sheep’s clothing (normally by emails) and then destroy your computer. So to maintain peak computer performance, it is necessary to keep your eyes when receiving known resources.
Firstly, it is necessary for us to know something about the .SHS file. The SHS file type is primarily associated with ‘Shell Scrap Object File’ by Microsoft Corporation, which is part of the Microsoft embed objects inside objects philosophy. Basically, it happens when we drag and drop selected contents like document text, drawing objects, and graphics to the Windows desktop, a file with the extension .SHS will be generated on the desktop. But it is very dangerous according to the two reasons below:
1) In windows, its default icon is exactly similar with Notepad’s.
2) Normally, the file extension: .SHS is hidden, even though you have selected to show all types of file extensions within My Computer-> Tools -> Folder Options -> View.
Here, we take a test to see why we say it is horrid:
1) Please go to create a Notepad Document Scrap on your desktop, and then open Notepad, click Insert -> Object -> tick “Create from files” and then insert the one you have just created -> click OK.
2) Click “Edit” and then Package Object -> Edit Object -> click “Edit” within the popping-up window -> select “Common line” -> type “Format.com a: /autotest” as what you can see in the below screenshot -> Click “OK”.
3) Then drag and drop the newly-updated files on the Windows desktop and rename it to “I love you.txt.shs” or something else.
4) If this kind of file was sent out and received by some PC users, they won’t hesitate to open it for.txt file is so normal file types without considering that it has anything executable in it along with a vast collection of dangerous script code in the wrapper. When opening it, there will be a DOS windows appearing whether to run the file. If click Yes, it may bring disasters to your computer.
So when receiving some unknown files, you should be caution on whether to open it or not in order to maintain computer performance. But to maintain computer speed, it is necessary for you to learn some knowledge on how to protect your computer against the potential danger within SHS files. For further information, please be patient to read through this article.
To prevent such kind of danger, you can effort from the side below:
1) Go to Start -> Run and then Registry Editor -> Locate “HEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShellScrap”, and then delete the entry “NeverShowExt”, which was the culprit of why you can not see the extension .SHS. Hence, when receiving a .SHS file, you can see the .SHS extension.
2) Chang the default icon of “Scrap objects”. Since the default icon of scrap file is the same as Notepad, which will sometimes confuses the PC users. So you can change it to the one as you like so as to easily recognize. You can go to My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> Locate “SHS” within the “Registered File Types” -> Advanced -> click “Change Icon” and then open “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Pifmgr.dll” to select the icon as you like. Hence, the SHS file will be shown in the icon you selected, different from other files.
3) Also, you can add “.SHS” files as the one that needs to be scanned by your anti-virus programs. Hence, it will automatically warm you when receiving such kind of files.
With the discussion above, you will know how to effectively maintain computer performance by preventing the potential danger of some SHS files.
But if want to always enjoy peak performance, it is recommended that you can not belittle the powerful function of a simple disk defragmentation for it will help you easily rearrange the contents locating on the hard disk, returning you a faster computer. If you have never run one before, please go to take one right now.
Hard Disk Maintenance—How to Protect Hard Disk by Defragmentation
Nov 26th
Although your PC is still working very well for you, you can not treat it lightly. Computer is like all the other machines that needs careful and regular maintenance. Since there are many ways to optimize PC performance, I would like to introduce one of methods to help you improve computer performance.
As hard disk is storage of computer, you should learn how to do daily maintenance. When using computer, it is unavoidable for you to delete or copy a large number of files. Such operations are the main cause of producing plenty of fragments. And every complete file is restored separately in the disk. If system wants to fetch a file, it has to search the different parts of this file. So the computer has to spend more time in reading the file and increase operating time. Therefore, you should defragment your disks regularly so as to optimize PC performance.
You can use the defragmenting program of Windows to help you. Such tool can rearrange the files continuously so as to speed up disk reading and writing. It includes two functions: one is to clear up fragments and another is to start up optimization of items. Although they are quite practical, it really takes too much time to defragment completely. To be honestly, long-time and frequent defragmentation can do harm to disk and shorten the usage of hard disk as well. In this regard, I recommend you to use appropriative disk defragmenting software, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Defragmentation is not only a good way to protect hard disk but also can optimize computer performance. It can collect those fragments and arrange orderly in the disks. At the same time, you should also make proper defragmenting schedule for disks. It is no doubt that too much defragmentation can do harm to disk and computer as well.
And, since using computer for a long time, there are certain troubles hidden in the disk. The lost of system files or damaged data are probably caused by bad disk tracks. Physical bad tracks may expand as more and more frequent read-write operations of disk head and result in an increasing number of bad tracks. At last, this disk with such bad tracks all over is unable to use any more. So, it is wise for you to back up important data in the disk as long as you find any bad track in it.
Well, bad hard disks track can divide into two kinds—soft and hard. You can fix the former problem by using certain software and continue to use the disk. But as for the latter one, it may expense certain disk space, even make the whole disk invalid. How to fix the two problems mentioned above? You can solve soft bad tracks by running the disk restoring tool of Windows or operating high level format to the disk, for example, you can right-click the disk drive and choose “Format” or right-click “My Computer”—“Manage”—“Disk Management”. But for hard disk problem, you have to turn to certain tools to help you.
In this regard, if you are not so skillful enough, you had better use special software to solve such problem.
Increase computer performance — Some knowledge about hard disk bad sector
Nov 27th
As we all know that there are many ways for us to increase computer performance, but if you have you never heard about hard disk bad sector before and how it affects the computer performance. It is necessary for you to be patient to read this article.
First, let’s have a glance at what bad sector is. As what it is called, a bad sector is one that cannot be used due to permanent damage like physical damage to the disk surface or failed flash memory transistors. Normally, it can be detected by some disk utility tools like Scandisk on Microsoft systems. When at this time, the data in those bad sectors may be lost, but the data on others’ won’t be affected, and it is also possible to use the disk.
When there are bad sectors on the hard disk, there must be serious problems occurring like problems when reading / writing data, or having shrill noise at startup. So some actions are needed to mark them out and automatically skip them to increase computer performance.
Though those bad sectors can not be repaired, you can mark them as unusable. Once they are marked as unusable, the Operating System will skip them when trying to store data on the hard disk. Below is what you can do:
1) Go to My Computer
2) Right click the drive you want to check to select “Properties”
3) Click “Tools” on the top and then “Check Now” button.
With the simple steps above, the bad sector on the hard disk will be checked and then marked out, hence increasing computer performance.
But this can not essentially solve the problem. To always enjoy a computer, you have to from some good habits while using computer from the below sides:
1) Do not suddenly turn off power when the hard disk is still working. Before turning off the power, first please make sure that the HDD LD has been off.
2) Remember that the hard disk must be well protected against dampness, moisture, shock and dust.
3) Make sure the hard disk is not always working at high-temperature (better to keep at 20-25℃).
With the methods above, you can extend the lifespan of the hard disk and maintain your computer performance. But when trying to maintain hard disk, please remember not to neglect the below side: disk defragmentation.
As we all know that disk fragments come unavoidably during the allocation of files / folders on the hard disk. The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will consume for the hard disk to input / output associated data. So a disk defragmentation can not be missed in order to rearrange the contents on the hard disk, making them always stay close together and coherently, therefore maintaining the hard disk and speeding up the computer.
In conclusion, it is necessary to know something about the hard disk bad sector when trying to increase computer performance. Though we can effort from different aspects to protect our hard disk, disk defragmentation should be the one that can not be neglected.
Protect Your Computer—the Main Causes of Blue Screen and How to Solve Them Correctly
Nov 27th
During using computer, if such accident happens, it is really a disaster for those beginners. But, do not worry. If you have learned the radical causes of blue screen, it may not be a problem for you any more. This is what I want to introduce to you in this article.
In fact, blue screen problem is mainly connected with memory capability, CPU frequency, CD-ROM, hard disk fragments and so forth. Since many reasons account for computer blue screen, I would like to explain some of them from the aspect of hardware. That is how to solve blue screen caused by hardware problems.
The low virtual memory leads to algorithm errors of system multitask.
Virtual memory is a special method that is designed for solving insufficient system resource in the Windows systems. Normally, it requires remain space in the hard disk is two to three times than that of physical memory. However, some computer fans would like to cram excessive stuff into their hard disks in order to make full use of them and turn a blind eye to the rigorous requirement of Windows that there should be enough disk space to support virtual memory. Therefore, due to low hard disk space, virtual memory can not run correctly and is troubled with algorithm errors which result in blue screen probably.
Well, it is rather easy to deal with such problem. You are supposed to delete the temporary and swap files produced by system and not to put too many files into hard disk so as to free up disk space. Or you can configure virtual memory manually. You can change the default address of virtual memory to other logical disks. In this way, computer can shun blue screen caused by insufficient virtual memory.
There is too small available disk space or too many fragments.
Generally speaking, the available space in the hard disk should be above of certain value, since different systems require values differently. Otherwise, the blue screen problem is likely linked to the size of available space. In addition, if there are too many fragments in the disk, it can lead to blue screen easily. Therefore, it is necessary to defragment disk at proper intervals.
You can turn to Windows defragmenting program, of course. But, if you want to speed up defragmentation and protect hard disk as well, I recommend you to use special defragmenting software called “Advanced Defrag”. You will satisfy with this program for sure.
CD-ROM is opened abnormally when reading disk.
Blue screen happens when the CD-ROM is reading the disk and is being operated mistakenly. But, such problem has little influence on system running. What you need to do is to use CD or press ESC. And everything is OK.
All in all, since blue screen can resulted from many reasons, you should protect your computer in all-round way and improve computer knowledge as much as you can.
Hard Disk—Useful Methods to Fix Hard Disk Problems
Nov 27th
It is known to all that hard disk is storage of the computer. If there is any problem in it, it can not only harm hard disk but also slow down your computer. Therefore, you should need to know how to protect hard disk, even fix the problems. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Sometimes, logical bad track can result from using formal vision of software. Is it weird? Actually, when some software reads data into certain sectors, others are excluded to visit these sectors. In such condition, the scanning program may consider mistakenly there are bad tracks in the sectors and you do not need to fix those tracks at all. But, do not worry about that, such software uses those ways decreasingly.
Normally, logical bad track is caused by improper using hard disk. For example, if the computer has to restart unexpectedly when hard disk is reading data, logical bad tracks are created probably at this moment. What is worse, it may even lead to physical bad tracks. In fact, you can use Windows disk tools to scan the whole disk and to fix errors automatically. The specific procedure is as follows:
In “My Computer”, you can right-click the drive letter, click “Properties”—“Tools”—“Check Now” and tick “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”. At last, click “Start” and then everything is OK.
The scanning time is dependent on disk capability and scanning options. But you should be clear about that all the operating systems except Windows 98 do not display details of every sector. Therefore, it is wise for you to choose disk detecting tool of DOS—Scandisk. Such program can check every sector and mark the bad track to prevent operating system to visit this region any more. By doing this, it can guarantee to run system stably and restore data safely.
If you follow the steps mentioned above, the restored bad tracks still exit in the hard disk but just have been marked, so the system will not continue to visit it. However, since you keep on using hard disk, it is likely such bad tracks can expand. In this regard, to scan and mark the bad tracks can not eradicate this trouble. So, it is appropriate for you to back up disk data and rearrange partitions to format disk. commonly, if the problem of hard disk is just involved in logical bad track, to back up data is qualified enough to handle this problem completely. Of course, it is best that you apply Scandisk to detect hard disk again in DOS environment to make sure logical bad tracks are restored thoroughly after rearranging partitions and formatting disk.
In conclusion, to be honestly, the problem of hard disk is rather professional. You can have a try to fix them or let hard disk programs help you.
Causes for computer crashes — simple ways for you to optimize your computer
Nov 30th
When using the computer, I believe it won’t be a pleasant experience to see that it freezes or crashes frequently. So it is necessary for you as a user to master some knowledge on what causes the computer crashes and how to them to optimize your computer.
There are many causes to why the computer crash suddenly while you are in the midst of doing something and each has its own solution. But normally, below are the most common causes for computer crashes.
Cause one: Hardware conflict
If a crash is caused by hardware conflict, it is very easy to solve it by replacing the necessary components. But please bear in mind that the new items must be compatible with the existing hardware. Only in this way, will your computer run properly.
Cause two: Spyware or Adware running on the computer
As we all know that when there are malicious spyware and adware running on your computer, lots of valuable resources will be used up, which will cause your computer to run slowly and eventually crash. So to optimize your computer, it is vital to install correct anti-spyware software on your computer to block the potential danger presented to network security.
Cause three: Infected by viruses
Similarly to Spyware or Adware, if the computer is infected by viruses, a large amount of system resources will be taken and then slow down the computer. Seriously, it will eventually crash the computer. So please regularly scan your computer for viruses to always optimize your computer.
Cause four: Too many programs running at the same time
When a program is running, it will take some certain amount of system resources and memory. If too many programs run at once (including those running at the background), a crash will occur because of limited memory. So please close down other running programs as possible as you can but the one that you need currently, which will free up memory to ensure a smooth running of the program you do need.
Cause five: Registry problems
For users who have some knowledge about computers, they may know that windows registry is the main soul of the computer, which determines the proper running of the entire machine. If there is something wrong, the computer will become a cold and useless machine only. When surfing the internet or uninstalling programs, there may be some registry entries left on the computer, overloading it or messing it up. Seriously, it will suddenly crash the computer. So it is necessary to have an impact registry. You can fix this by cleaning it with some free registry cleaners.
Cause six: No disk defragmentation for a long-term usage
As we all know that the fragments on the hard disk make it impossible fast access to what we want. The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost when trying to input / output files, which will greatly slow down or crash the computer. So a disk defragmentation is needed in order to rearrange the files on the computer, making all part of a same file coherently stay at the same place.
Besides the above causes, there are some other aspects which will result in computer crashes like not enough memory, a system bug. When considering that my computer is running slow, I went to take a disk defragmentation and found that it solved the problem instantly.
Frustrated with your slow computer? It is recommended to run a disk defragmentation right now to optimize your computer. Believe me, it will speed up your computer easily like what it did to my computer.
Computer crash randomly — How to avoid computer crashes
Nov 30th
For all PC users, it is annoyed to see that the computer crash randomly. So how to avoid computer crashes has been one main problem for them.
First, it is necessary to know that all computers will crash and no operating system can be escaped, no matter it has been used for a very long time or brandy new. But it is not easy to point out all causes for it involves to kinds of computer usage like some issues related to the hardware, software. But you can effort from some sides to avoid computer crashes.
1. Diligently patch the system
As we all know problems will occur if there are some system bugs such as some hackers will break into your system to spy out data and violate your privacy. So a system patch will help you timely correct some bugs and always protect your PC, avoiding computer crashes.
2. Duly update anti-virus program
If a computer is infected by a virus, lots of resources will be taken up when starting up the computer and slow it down. What is more, the virus will seriously steal users’ privacy, change PC settings, and even give outside parties control over the computer, which will seriously result in computer crashes. So it is recommended that you can install an anti-virus program and firewall to protect your computer from crashing time to time. But that is not enough. It is needed for you to update it duly in order to always ensure the latest virus database.
3. Carefully install programs on the computer
Before installing a program on your computer, first check whether it is safe / necessary or not. When finding that a program is not needed any more, you have to uninstall it from your computer in time to release more available free space, preventing computer crashes. You can go to Start, All Programs and then Add / Remove Programs within Control Panel to thoroughly uninstall the unneeded programs.
4. Timely defragment the computer
From a fact study, we know that lots of computer users have never run a disk defragmentation during the lifetime of the computer, thinking that it has nothing to do with the PC performance. But in fact, a simple disk defragment plays very important role in speeding up the computer for it will reassemble all parts of a same content and then make them stay close together. Hence, it will reduce the movement of the hard disk head and speed up the disk visiting time. So a periodical defragmentation is needed in order to prevent computer crashes because of the large amount of disk fragments.
5. Remember not to visit pornography sites
Currently, pornography sites have been the media of pushing scams and virus transmission, which brings sever potential risk to users’network security. So please do not visit these kinds of sites in order to protect / maintain your PC performance.
As you can see that above is what you can do in daily life to avoid computer crashes and protect your computer. But here, I just want to emphasize again the important role of a simple disk defragmentation. It will help you effectively manage the files on your computer and then speed it up.
If you have never run a disk defragmentation before, it is highly recommended that you can run one right now to avoid computer crashes and speed it up.
Protect Your Computer—How to Maintain Hard Disk
Nov 30th
As a member of computer storage equipment, hard disk plays much important role in computer running. However, since hard disk belongs to magnetic media, it is unable to use stably as well as other equipments do such as memory. In fact, it is unavoidable for you to encounter various problems. What is worse, as disk is involved in system in-depth settings, you must solve some problems under DOS circumstance.
If you are not an experienced user, it will be head ache for you. Therefore, the best method to handle it is not to solve the problems when happen but learn how to prevent them in advance. So, in this article, I will tell you some simple methods to guard against hard disk problems.
Do not compress your hard disk.
In the past, it was common to compress disk by certain orders in hope to save more space. However, as compress volume file was augmenting gradually, its read-write speed was reduced obviously. What is worse, it might creak when reading or writing data which meant it worked with heavy burden. Nowadays, disk capacity has been expanded day by day, you do not have to worry about the low disk space problem. That is to say, it is necessary to compress disk on condition that there is enough disk space to run applications.
You should clear up hard disk regularly.
Proper disk defragmentation can improve computer speed without question. If too many disk fragments are accumulating excessively, it can slow down visiting speed and harm disk tracks as well. Defragment disk can help you clear up those rubbish and make computer regain high speed. But at the same time, you should not defragment disk frequently, it can also harm disk.
Besides, you should know how to hold hard disk correctly.
When maintaining computer, you should hold the computer sides and avoid the rear circuit board colliding with other stiff things. You should hold and put it lightly. Do not touch the circuit board casually, because the static on your hand may harm electronic component on the hard disk.
You should not do low-level format lightly.
Actually, low-level formatting is the most thorough initialization of hard disk. After you perform such operation, the original protective data may be lost completely. To some degree, low-level formatting is destructive to hard disk. So only when it is extremely necessary that can you do such operation.
At the same time, avoid frequent high-level formatting operations.
It can do harm to hard disk as well. Although compared to low-level formatting, it is much better to your hard disk, it can affect hard disk performance as well. If you really want to do that, I suggest you to use the quick formatting order of parameter “Q” under the circumstance of not rearranging partitions. It is much safer for hard disks.
In conclusion, as hard disk is so significant for your computer, you should spare no effort to maintain it so as to protect your computer efficiently.
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.
Protect Hard Disk—How to Solve Bad Tracks Problems
Dec 1st
Hard disk should be the most subtle components in the computer. As modern technology is advancing rapidly, hard disk capacity has been increased greatly. But its brittle shortcoming is not still improved radically. For computer users, it is the last thing for them to find hard disk broken, since it restores precious data and information.
As hard disk problems are divided mainly into two aspects—logical and physical bad tracks. If it is logical problem, you can reinstall software under the worst circumstance. And for physical one, you can still handle it on condition that the problems are not so serious.
First of all, let us see what will happen if there is physical damage in the hard disk.
When reading certain file or running programs, it is easy to go awry or takes long time to operate successfully. Even when reading, hard disk is creaking hoarsely. If this happens, you have to aware that certain sectors with data have been broken already.
When booting computer, system can not be lead by hard disk. After starting floppy disk, it can switch to hard disk drive letter but cannot enter into it. Even by using SYS order, it still fails. All of these are probably caused by the problem in hard disk sectors. It is more serious than the previous one. Besides, computer is always troubled with blue screen without any specific reason even though you use it correctly.
According to the situation mentioned above, there are some ways to remedy. Here are some methods to repair hard disk bad tracks. You should take these measures orderly.
First of all, it is wise for you from the easiest way. In Windows98 system, you can right-click drive letter and choose “Properties”. In the “Tool” tab, you can choose to scan the disk thoroughly and automatically restore the probable broken cluster.
To be frankly, the first methods can not work very well every time, because Windows98 just repair the logical bad tracks but not physical ones. Therefore, you should consider perform “Cold Treatment” to these bad tracks. So-called “Cold Treatment” is to mark those tracks and do not use them any more. You should remember their positions and perform high-level formatting. By doing these, those tracks can be arranged in certain area and computer may not restore any file there. Do not decide such area too small in order to save hard disk space. Because bad tracks can extend to other good ones, it is wise for you to leave proper space for those broken tracks in case of new bad tracks happen. Or you can use certain specific software to help you.
In the last resort, you can do low-level formatting to hard disk. This should be the last measure to take because it can harm disks in two aspects at least: one is to abrade disk; another is to accelerate the extension of bad tracks.
Last but not least, if there is any bad track, you should review whether you defragment disk too frequently or there is too low memory so that the applications have to visit disks hourly.
All of the methods mentioned above can solve hard disk physical bad tracks problems correctly but passively, because it expenses the disk capacity. So, the best way is to operate hard disk cautiously.
Disk defragmentation — One effective thing you can do to fix computer freezes problem
Dec 1st
No matter what the computer is used for, it will be a huge nuisance to see that the computer freezes up or crashes when doing something in the midst. So is there any thing that we can do to fix computer freezes problem easily? Of course, there is, I believe.
For me, it is annoyed to see that my computer freezes up suddenly time and time again when starting it up or doing something for at this time it is impossible for me to access any program, or move my mouse to anywhere. What is serious, I have to manually turn off my power to close it down because the “Alt+Ctrl+Delete” is useless, which will cause the loss of some important information and unsafe elements to the computer. But that is what I can do.
After checking the Internet, I found that there were many things that I could do to fix computer freezes problem like checking some hardware settings, or removing some unwanted programs / files to release more available free space and memory, scanning the entire computer for viruses. I have done all without any remarkable result.
When talking this with one of my friends, I learned that the problem might be coming from the fragments on the hard disk. And disk fragments come inevitably as we download, store and delete files on the computer. The more fragmented the hard disk is, the more time it will consume to visit the hard disk. If we run too many programs at once, large number of system resources will be taken, which will greatly overload the movement of the hard disk and seriously slow down or freeze up the computer.
With the suggestion of my friend, I went to run a disk defragment and get surprising result: it fixed the computer freezes problem instantly. But to ensure a smooth disk defragmentation, it needs you to go thorough this article for some useful tips.
To ensure a thorough and faster disk defragmentation, you have to do the below sides before:
1) Completely clean up the garbage files on the hard disk. After being used for a long time, there must be lots of useless garbage files storing on the disk like download files, TEMP files, cache files and so on. So please go to run the packaged Disk Cleanup tool to remove some unnecessary files.
2) Check and then fix the hard disk errors. Please go to run the Microsoft “Error –checking” to check and then automatically fix some hard disk error.
3) Close all other running programs before the disk defragmentation. It is better to close other running program when running a disk defragmentation for once the Disk Defragmenter finds that there is something modified on the file, it will re-defragment the disk. So do not forget to turn off the screen savor and anti-virus programs before the defragmentation, and it is better to reset the size of virtual memory to a fixed value specified.
Basically, with the three preparations above, it will be much faster in defragmenting the hard disk. But for me, I am still unhappy with the lower-efficiency of the built-in Disk Defragmenter. Then I turned to use a disk defrag tool named Advanced Defrag, which finished the defragment process within only a coffee time. So I want to add that in order to get a faster defragmentation, it is better to rely on an advanced defrag utility.
As what you can see the explanation above, it is very necessary to run a disk defragmentation periodically in order to avoid and fix computer freezes problem. If you have never done one before, please remember to take action right now.
Does your computer freeze up without any cause? Useful methods on how to fix computer freezes
Dec 1st
Does your computer always freeze up without any cause while in the midst of doing something? Or does your mouse often freeze so you have to manually turn off your computer which is not safe for the computer or cause data loss?
Above are very common complaints for all computer users. If you have searched the Internet, you will find that these are due to a variety of things. Here some methods will be discussed on how to fix computer freezes.
Firstly, it will relate to the hardware on your computer. If there are defective or mismatched components existing on your computer, it will cause the random freezing-up of the computer. So you have to check your computer to see whether there are something conflict and then replace them correctly. Besides, it is necessary to note the settings of the Bios should be correct; and then the frequency of the CPU shouldn’t be too high; and the memory modules are correctly inserted into the sockets; and the displayer / power should be good heat-dissipation.
Secondly, it will have something to do with the software installed on the computer, which will take up lots of system resources. So it is highly recommended that you can uninstall the unwanted programs from Add / Remove Programs when noticing that they are no longer used. Also, if too many programs running automatically when booting up the computer, some will cause computer freezes. So please go to Start -> Run -> type “msconfig and press Enter -> go to Startup and disable some programs that do not need to automatically run at windows startup. Hence, it will stop your computer from freezing up time to time.
Thirdly, why does your computer freeze without any cause may cause from not enough system maintenance. As we all know that a computer is just like a human being who needs to well taken care of. Only in this way, will the computer or all of its components be used for a much longer time. If it lacks necessary system maintenance, it won’t run properly or freeze randomly without any cause, which will result in data loss, and lower working efficiency. So system maintenance is needed in order to fix computer freezes.
When talking about system maintenance, what lots of PC users think of will be how to remove some unneeded files from the computer and check / fix the PC errors. That is right for the unnecessary files will only take hard disk space without any meaningful significance. So a cleanup of them is a must by using the built-in Disk Cleanup in order to free up more available disk space. Moreover, it is necessary for you to use the Error-checking tool to check and then mark the bad sector on the hard. In this way, it will ensure a smooth running of your computer, without computer freezes.
But not all computer users realize that a simple disk defragmentation plays very important role in maintaining PC performance. First of all, as we all know that when there is not enough available free space to locate a same content into a single place, it will be cut into different parts and put in different corner of the hard disk. If this content is frequently input or output, it will increase the movement of the hard disk head to gather all parts together, which will slow down the computer. Seriously, it will eventually freezes up your computer. So a regular disk defragmentation is needed in order to maintain PC performance and fix computer freezes.
As what you can see above, there are many ways for you to fix computer freezes. But when trying to prevent the problem of “computer freeze up without any cause”, please do remember to run a disk defragmentation. It will do you a favor in maintaining PC performance.
Protect Your Computer—Facts about Hard Disk Problems
Dec 3rd
Although low hard disk quality can lead to bad tracks, you should be aware that the most problems are produced by being used improperly. So in order to protect your hard disk as well as computer, I would like to tell you the facts about hard disk problems and bad tracks in particular.
It can categorize into two kinds: logical and physical bad tracks. Put in simple way, logical one is produced by using certain software or disk improperly while physical bad track is due to problem of magnetic media of hard disk itself. As a matter of fact, to fix the former is much easier to fix than the latter one.
If you find your hard disk is troubled with following problems, it is necessity for you to check whether there is bad track in the disks.
As a matter of fact, your system is not affected by any virus but cannot startup normally and come up with some prompts like “Sector not found” or “General error in reading drive C”. Every time you start up system, it will run Scan disk program to scan disk errors. The normal running sound has changed into weird creaking. Or when formatting hard disk, it stops at certain schedule and then report errors that it cannot finish the whole task. If you perform “FDISK” to hard disk, it repeats at certain schedule. What is worse, the computer might fall into blue screen without any wrong operation.
How to fix bad tracks?
As it is extremely rigorous requirement for interior working environment in the hard disk, any tiny dust can result in irreversible damages. Therefore, if there is any bad track in the disk, you cannot fix the problems by taking apart the disks but can turn to other specific tools to help you so as to minimize the loss. After confirming the bad tracks in the disks, you are not still sure whether they belong to logical or physical. So, you have to fix disk errors from simple to complex means. The common logical problems can be solved by using Windows program or others. But as for physical ones, you need further repair to guarantee the safety of hard disk data and normal usage.
Shield physical bad tracks
If bad track still exits after low-level formatting, it is no doubt that there are physical bad tracks on it. Such problem is produced usually by furious impinge or abrupt power-off during using hard disk and disk head may likely collide with disk when it is tail-wagging. Even though you use disk checking program to mark those bad tracks so as to forbid operating system visiting this sector, the physical ones can extend after a period of time. That is to say, although you have marked bad ones, hard disk is likely to visit the sectors closed to bad tracks which can deteriorate the situation. In order to avoid such problem, you had better shield bad tracks into an unused partition.
By doing the above steps, you can fix logical bad tracks or shield bad tracks into hidden partition so as to ensure the stability of system running and safety of data files. In this way, you can refresh hard disks.
Improve Computer Performance—the Methods to Optimize Windows Performance
Dec 4th
Have you been troubled with that computer performance is declining day after day? Though you have used software to check it, computer shows that there is no virus. What is the matter? In fact, since computer has been serving for you for a period of time, there are many junks piling in the computer but you just have not realized yet.
Do not worry about that. Many causes that lead to this problem can be find in this article. What you need to do is to read it patiently and follow the steps so as to optimize Windows performance.
There is a large number of swap files in the hard disk which is prepared for putting virtual memory and many applications may often use them. In this way, system has to read the major storage at every turn. Its speed is the main cause that has influence on computer running speed. Normally, Windows system can manage virtual memory automatically according to different requirement of various applications. However, such variable changes can add excessive burden to system and reduce its working speed. As a result, you had better set the maximum and minimum values of virtual memory so as to avoid altering that too often.
As for how to do that, you can right-click “My Computer” and click “Properties”. And in the “Advanced” tab, choose “Performance” dialog box and then set “Virtual Memory”. By doing this, you can improve computer performance by limiting virtual memory correctly.
Then you should check applications and drive programs. Some programs may slow down system speed when computer starts up. If you want to check the problems in this regard, you can start your computer under “Safe Mode”. Because it is the original starting method, it should be slower than normal ways. Actually, the safe mode booting way does not have to load too many applications and drives as normal one does. But if you find it is faster rather than slower, it is probably that certain program in the system goes awry so that computer booting is so tardy. So, you need to check them in order to improve computer performance.
What is more, excessive desktop icons can reduce computer performance as well. Every time when Windows startup and display desktop, it has to find and load desktop shortcuts one by one. The more shortcuts are there, the more time are needed. Meanwhile, some anti-virus software has the function to scan system which also wastes much time. As a matter of fact, if you have opened real-time monitor function of certain software, it seems redundant to scan system when booting. You can shut down this scanning function but should be on condition that you have opened real-time monitor. And, it is suggested that you can put the seldom used icons to a specific folder or delete them without further ado.
Now, are there problems in your computer in accord with one or more descriptions in this article? If so, you should take some measures to improve computer performance; if not, you also ought to prevent those problems so as to optimize Windows performance.
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.
System cleanup —How to ensure a timing and effective system cleanup
Dec 4th
Currently, with the rapid growth of broadband, the need of more available hard disk space arises as a very important problem to be resolved for all PC users. If there is not enough available hard-disk space, some messages will pop up like “unable to create the specified connection” or “cluster configuration cannot proceed”.
So a system cleanup is needed to always optimize PC performance. It’s known that we can use Microsoft’s built-in Disk Cleanup utility to scan the hard disk and then delete some unwanted Internet temporary files and some useless files from recycle bin. But rare people realize that windows Prefetch folder always takes large amount of disk space. From Microsoft website, we know that prefetching boot files and applications can decreases the time needed to start Windows XP and other applications. But when trying to take this action it is necessary to go through all system data, and the data which was accessed will be recorded in the hard disk, which takes up large amount of disk space. As times by, Windows XP will become sluggish because of insufficient available hard-disk space.
So how to effectively clean up these useless files? Here, a simply way will be discussed to ensure an effectively system cleanup, that is, edit a script.
1) Run Notepad, and then edit the below command lines (pretend that Windows XP is installed under C:\Windows)
c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sageset:1
c:
cd\
cd c:\windows\prefetch
del *.* /q
(Note: the last two lines are used to clean up the windows Prefetch folder)
2) Save the file as “*.bat” and store on that hard disk such as C:\ cleanup.bat.
3) Right click the just created “cleanup.bat” item to open “Disk Cleanup Settings” wizard. Here, you can check the items to be cleaned up.
4) After that, right click the icon of “cleanup.bat” and select “Edit” to change the first line to “c:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sagerun:1”.Hence, when clicking it, it will automatically run a system cleanup operation but not the wizard of “Disk Cleanup Settings”.
5) If you want to timing run “cleanup.bat” to clean up system, please go to Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks -> Add Scheduled Task –> select “cleanup.bat” and then set the time when to run this system cleanup operation.
With the simple ways above, you can effectively clean up the system junk files at a scheduled time effectively, which releases more available free disk space and saves your time.
But it is greatly recommended that you can run a disk defragmentation after the system cleanup. As we delete or move files from the hard disk, there must be some gaps left behind, which make the hard disk fragmented it can not be defragmented at time. A defragmentation is a process which can rearrange the files on the computer, making them always stay at the same single place and much easier to be accessed to and then optimize PC performance.
In conclusion, we can ensure a timing and effective system cleanup with simple scrip to release hard disk space, but please not that another simple process — disk defragmentation is also needed in order to maintain hard disk and optimize PC performance.
Optimize PC performance — Tips you should know when cleaning up Windows system
Dec 4th
It is known to all that the Disk Cleanup utility can help us delete the useless system junk files to release more available hard disk space and then optimize PC performance. But there are some tips that needs to be paid attention to when cleaning up your system.
First, please remember to regularly clean up your system.
When browsing the websites or downloading/installing programs on the computer, some files will come together like Internet temporary files, which make no sense but just waste hard disk space. So the Disk Cleanup tool is needed to clear up these useless files. Here is what you can start: go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup. If you have more than one drive, please clean them one by one. Besides, a disk defragmentation can not be missed after deleting the files because this will make all files on the hard disk gather close together and then improve disk visiting time
Second, periodically clear up Windows registry.
The same as Internet temporary files, when windows system and other processes are running, some registry items are generated and rewritten inevitably and constantly. Normally these entries will overload the workload of the system and then cause system slowdown, freeze-up and crashes. So a deletion of these invalid and useless registry entries is a must to optimize PC performance. But if you are not professional on computers, please go to depend on a registry cleaner and remember to first back up the registry before the cleanup.
Third, try not to log in system as administrator
When copying and pasting files to the computer from a outside device, if you are logging the system as an administrator, some spyware or malicious software will come easily. So you’d better to log on your computer with a common user.
Fourth, carefully install programs on your computer.
We know that programs on the computer will take lots of hard disk space. And sometimes, some programs will automatically load some entries when starting up the computer which significantly affects PC performance. So you should be careful enough when installing programs on the computer and delete the useless one immediately once it is not used any more. In this way, your can not only release more disk space, but also regain faster computer speed.
Fifth, Remember to always update anti-virus/ spyware programs.
Once a computer is infected by virus or spyware, lots of system sources will be taken when booting up the computer. This will greatly slow down computer speed. Seriously, they will spy out system data and steal users’ privacy. So please remember to turn on the real-time safeguard of your anti-virus / spyware programs to block this potential risk, and update them when available to always enjoy the latest virus database.
Above are tips that you should know in cleaning up Windows system to optimize PC performance. Though they seems rather simple, please do not miss none of them when trying to optimize your computer.
Windows XP crashes — How to save a crashed Windows XP
Dec 8th
In our daily usage of computer, it is inevitable for us to do some illegal operations, which makes the system run improperly or crash. At this point, some will decide to reinstall the system to bring back the entire system. But we can say that it is too early to do this action because we can try a simple restore job to save a crashed Windows XP.
First of all, we all know that System Restore is a very useful utility in Windows XP. If some necessary system files are deleted incorrectly or there is something wrong with the computer or it is completely crashed, you can use the System Restore to save your XP system to a previous state.
1) How to enable System Restore
Actually, the running of the System Restore is something associated with the process “rstrui”. So you can go to C:\windows\system32\restore to locate the item “rstrui”, and then right click it to select “Send to -> Desktop (create shortcut)”. So you can double click this shortcut to quickly start System Restore. In DOS mode, you can simply go to Start -> Run -> type “rstrui” to enable it.
2) Use command-line to start System Restore
If the computer has been completely crashed and impossible to get into neither normal nor safe mode, you can type in the command-line “C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui” and then press “Enter” to run a system restore if you can access “ Safe Mode with Command-line”. In this way, you can effortlessly bring back a crashed Windows XP.
3) Use system menu to restore a crashed XP in safe mode
If you are able to get access Windows Safe mode, even though fail to access normal mode, it is recommended to restore the system here. Here is what you can go: Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore -> select “Restore my computer to an earlier time” and then click “Next”. Here, you can select the restore point and restore your computer. After rebooting, you can easily save your crashed Windows XP.
With the steps above, you can simply save a crashed XP computer, but it does not mean that all degree of damage can be restored in this way. If the computer is damaged too much, a reinstallation is needed, which will cause the loss of some important data. So it is necessary to learn how to prevent a crashed Windows XP computer.
For a user who has a little knowledge about computer, I know that it is much more important for us to carefully maintain the system rather than do some other restore jobs. Below is what I always do in daily life to optimize PC performance: 1) timely uninstall unwanted programs when noticing that they are not used any longer; 2) periodically clean up the system junk files; 3) run a disk defragmentation at a regular basic, which is what I want to emphasize too much because lots of PC users often neglect it. But it can help effectively gather all parts of a fragmented file together.
In conclusion, you can easily save a crashed Windows XP with a system restore job. But it is more important for you to learn how to prevent system crashes and then maintain PC performance.
XP blue screen? — How to fix XP blue screen of death
Dec 9th
Have you ever seen Windows XP blue screen? I believe all XP users might have encountered blue screen during the computer life. So, do you know what causes a blue screen? Here, we will learn both from hardware and software to see the causes and how to fix XP blue screen of death.
Part One: Hardware
First, excessive overclocking may be the main cause for XP blue screen for it will result in overloading algorithm and CPU overheat, which causes system operation errors. If you want overclocking without a blue screen, you’d better to take some steps to dissipate heat quickly such as turn to use a powerful fan and add some heat-dissipating materials (like silica gel). But it is recommended to keep the right amount of overclocking or no clocking in order to avoid blue screen of death. In my opinion, a stable PC performance is much more important than a short-tern high running speed.
Second, a physical damage on the memory module will also cause a XP blue screen because of the incompatibility. If so, please buy a new memory module to solve the XP blue screen and optimize PC performance.
Third, (if you have ever noticed) you will find that once a loading CD is opened abnormally, the computer will also come into blue screen. This will not influence the proper running of the system, but please inject the CD or press “ESC” key to solve the problem.
Fourth, another fatal cause is hardware conflict. So please go to Start menu -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager. Here, please check whether there is any device marked with yellow exclamation mark. If so, you can first delete it and then reboot the computer, letting the system automatically adjust the settings. If it does not solve the problem, you can manually adjust or update the corresponding devices.
By the way, please note that some inferior parts and components will be another cause for XP blue screen. So please be careful enough when buying CPU, memory chip and other components from the market.
Part Two: Software
From software, there are many parts will result in XP blue screen as what you can see below:
1)The computer is attacked by virus or hacker; 2) there is some error/ loss in the Windows registry; 3) too many programs run at windows startup; 4) versions conflict; 5) not enough virtual memory; 6) necessary DLL files lose; 7) excessive character files, etc. At this point, after learning the causes, it is possible for you to figure out the XP blue screen within proper solutions.
With the discussion above, you will find some methods to fix XP blue screen of death. But please remember to timely quit programs that do not need currently to save system resource and release more available memory. Beside, please do not forget to periodically clean up the system and defragment hard disk in order to always optimize PC performance.
With the above solutions and good habits in suing computer, you can easily avoid and fix XP blue screen. Please do not forget some tiny tips when trying to optimize PC performance.
Speed up computer — How to speed up computer by increasing startup speed
Dec 10th
How to speed up computer has been a main concern for all PC users for it will be very frustrated to work with a slower computer. Here, you will find some ways on how to increase computer startup speed so as to speed it up.
1) Optimize BIOS settings
In the setting wizard of Bios, please go to the option “Advanced BIOS Feature” and them move the cursor to “First Boot Device” and then select the tab “HDD-O” (start from hard drive) but not the default “Floppy”. This will help increase computer startup speed, extend floppy’s lifespan and speed up your computer.
2) Cancel Window boot screen
To speed up your computer, you can cancel the loading of the Windows boot screen when starting it up. You can simply follow the steps here: 1) make all folders and files visible by going to My Computer, Tools, and Folder Options to tick “Display contents of system folders” and “Show hidden files and folders” within advanced settings; 2) find the file “Msdos.sys” and cancel its “Read-only” properties, then you can open it with Plain Text Editor to add “logo=0” at the end of the “Option” paragraph. In this way, the Windows boot screen will not be loaded when starting up the computer, speeding up computers.
3) Remove some unnecessary desktop icons
When starting up the computer, it is necessary for the system to search and then display the desktop icons one by one. This will consume a very longer time if there are too many desktop icons. So a removal of the unnecessary desktop icons is needed in order to speed up computer.
4) Optimize startup entries
We all know that if too many programs run at once, the computer will become slower. This happens the same when starting up the computer. So it is a must to disable some entries which do not need to run at Windows startups to increase computer speed. You can go to Start -> Run -> type “msconfig” to access Startup. Here, you can disable those that do not need to automatically run at booting up computer. In this way, you can easily increase computer speed.
5) Timely clean up Windows registry
When booting up the computer, the system will spend a lot of time in reading the registry for relevant data. So please periodically clean up the registry to fix some registry problem and get rid of some invalid/useless registry entries.
Besides the aspects above, to speed up computer, you have to regularly scan your computer for viruses/ spyware, uninstall some unwanted programs from your computer and so on. But from a fact study, we find that lots of PC users always ignore one important part when trying to increase computer speed: clean up system junk files and defragment the computer. A system cleanup with the Disk Cleanup utility can help effectively delete the unnecessary system junk files from the hard disk so as to free up more available hard disk space. And a simple disk defragmentation will help to rearrange the files on the hard disk, prevent it from being fragmented day by day.
In conclusion, there are many ways for us to speed up computer by increasing startup speed. Though they seems a little simple, they can help you easily increase computer speed. So please do not miss any of them when trying to avoid a slower computer.
Increase computer speed—Methods on how to increase computer speed when 100% CPU occupancy
Dec 12th
Have you ever noticed that you are using a slower computer due to the 100% occupancy of CPU resources? Normally, there are many possibilities which result in this problem like hardware, software, and viruses. However, in this article, we will discuss solutions on how to increase computer speed easily by yourself when 100% CPU occupancy.
1) Turn off unnecessary monitoring services
Some new-editions of anti-virus program will add features to randomly monitor the WebPages, add-ons and emails, which undoubtedly increase the system burden. Now, even though there is not a reasonable way to solve this problem, it is recommended to turn off some unneeded monitoring services to avoid malfunction caused by anti-virus programs, or upgrade your hardware to increase computer speed.
2) Use certified drivers maximally
Nowadays, a large amount of test drivers flood on the Internet, which increases the harder to discover the malfunction cause and results in 100% CPU occupancy. So it is suggested to use the drivers that certified by Microsoft or released by official, especially the drive for graphic card.
3) Scan the computer for viruses or spyware
When the computer is infected by viruses or spyware, lots of system resources will be taken when running. So please use a reliable anti-virus/ spyware program to thoroughly scan your computer and also remember to regularly update your anti-virus program to ensure the latest virus database.
4) Disable some unnecessary startup entries
If too many programs run at the same time, the computer will become slower. So please go to Start -> run -> type “msconfig” to access “Startup”, and then disable some unneeded startup entries to increase computer speed.
5) To increase your computer speed, please go to Start -> Control -> Management Tools -> Services -> right click “RISING REALTIME MONITOR SERVICE” to change it to “Manual”.
6) Check “svchost” process
Svchost.exe is a core process for Windows XP, which also exists in system with NT kernel. In Windows 2000, the number of the svchost.exe is two, and it will be four or more in Windows XP.
7) Check the network connection, especially the network card.
If the XP computer is used to be a server, when receiving request for connection on port 445, it will allocate memory and some amount of CPU resources to provide services for these connections. If overloading, the CPU occupancy rate may become too high. So you have to determine proper settings for “MaxWorkItems” to improve system responsiveness which will be greatly affected ff the value is set incorrectly, or too many system resources is occupied exclusively by a user.
To fix this problem, please open Registry Editor and then locate the branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/lanmanserver and then create a new DWORD value named “maxworkitems” in the right window. And then please double click it to enter the below value:
If the computer has more than 512 MB memories, type “1024″; type “256″ if it is less than 512MB.
With the method above, you can easily fix the CPU high occupancy rate. But if you find that you are using a slower computer even though with the above methods, please remember to timely turn off programs that do not need currently to free up more available memory. Besides, I suggest you to periodically defragment your computer to make sure that all files are put in order and coherently.
In a word, it is very easy for us to increase computer speed when the CPU occupancy rate stays at 100%. But please remember not to belittle some tiny points in increasing computer speed.
Computer Problems—How to Fix Certain Computer Problems?
Dec 14th
Nowadays it is a must for users to learn how to fix computer problems instead of reinstalling computer every time when encountering computer problems. That is what I want to share with you in this article—how to fix certain computer problems.
In the first place, you can forbid the function of restart automatically
If Windows encounters a fatal problem, it may start up system again in order to solve it. But, if such problem happens during starting up Windows, the operating system has to fall into trap of restarting again and again without running normally. Under such circumstance, you need to forbid this automatic startup function. The specific function is as follows: when starting up the system and seeing “Please select the operating system to start”, you should press F8 to open the menu of Windows advanced options and choose to forbid starting up system automatically when it goes awry and then press “Enter”. Now, if there is any problem in the Windows, it will give you a message of stopping which can be used to diagnose problems.
And then you can learn how to restore backup. If you can not repair Windows but have recent backup, you can restore system from backup medium. The methods to restore system are based on the backup tools you use. Therefore, you should renew system by the prompts of backing up tools.
Besides, you can shorten starting up time. In the “Start” menu, click “Run” and type “Msconfig” in the popping up dialog box. You can enter into “System Configuration” window. In the “General” tab, you can choose to startup selectively. By doing this, you can find all the items that the computer will load when starting up. Although the loading programs can improve computer performance and add a lot of functions, they may delay starting up time. That is to say, you can shorten starting up time by forbidding loading certain programs when booting computer. And this is a good way to prevent the problems which happen probably during this process.
If you find your computer is running slower and slower and cannot find any specific problems, I earnestly suggest you that it is necessary for you to defragment disk. Though defragmentation can help you reallocate disk fragments and free up disk space, you should do that properly since too much defragmentation is also harmful to computer.
All in all, as computer is such a complex machine that requires careful and cautious operations, you need to learn more methods to fix computer problems.
Windows system crashes problem – Six methods on how to solve Windows system crashes
Dec 14th
I believe it will be a very frustrated experience to come across Windows system crashes when using the computer. But don’t worry! Here, six methods will be discussed on how to solve such problem.
1) Start the computer by using the Last Known Good Configuration feature
Boot your computer and hold your “F8 Key” which should bring up the “Windows Advanced Options Menu”, then use the ARROW keys to select Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked), and then press ENTER. Hence, the system will automatically use the registry backups in normal mode to restore the entire system, solving the Windows system crashes problem easily.
2) Repair system files
When trying to solve Windows system crashes problem, the Last Known Good Configuration will only repair the registry data. But if there is something wrong with the system files, it will result in system instability or failure to log in the system. So a scan with the system command “SFC” is needed. Once a file is found to be missing or damaged, you will be prompted to insert the installing CD to restore the original file. You can go to Start -> run -> type “sfc /scannow” and then “Enter” to begin the scanning. By the way, please remember to use a patched CD to restore the system if the operating system in the installing CD is an older one, avoiding a restore to an older version.
3) Replace user
We know that Windows registry always contains system branch and user branch. Sometimes, some users themselves configure the current system environments, which cause kinds of malfunctions when logging in the system. At this time, please do not rush to reinstall the entire system. A simple replacement of user account will solve the problem. You can go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Account to create a new account and then log in the system. But you must know that the “My Documents” folder and some private data with the previous users account are stored under the directory with the previous account. You can first back them up or open “C:\Windows\Documents and Settings\Username” after logging in with your new account.
4) Restore DLL registration status
There are two categories of DLL files existing in the system: one is not-required-to-register standard DLL file, and the other is required-to-register ActiveX DLL file. The latter will leave some related data in the Windows registry. Once corrupted or missing, errors will happen when requesting these files. And it will be a little annoying to re-register these DLL files, but you can easily solve it with the below method: open Notepad ->edit the below codes ->save as “regdll.bat” ->executive it ->reboot your computer to restore the crashed computer.
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@echo off
for %1 in do regsvr32.exe /s %1
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5) Completely restore original Windows Registry
You can restore the Windows registry to the original status (a status that has just installed the system). Considering that the files in the registry database are always locked after starting up the computer, it is recommended to take this action in DOS mode. If dual systems, you can directly operate in other good operating system; and users with NTFS partition can use the Recovery Console. With the prompt of command lines, use the CD commands to transfer the current directory to “%windir%Repair” and then perform the following commands one by one:
copy sam %windir%system32config
copy system %windir%system32config
copy software %windir%system32config
copy default %windir%system32config
copy security %windir%system32config
6) Use the System Restore feature
Go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore -> select “Restore my computer to an earlier time” and then click “Next” to restore the crashed computer. If it is impossible to even get into Windows safe mode, please contiguously press “F8”and type “C:\windows\system32\restore\strui.exe” when coming to “Safe Mode with Command-line”, last press “Enter” to run a system restore process.
With the six methods above, you can easily solve Windows system crashes problem. But in my opinion, it is necessary to know how to avoid a crashed computer rather than how to fix it: timely delete the unwanted programs / unnecessary startup items / useless system junk files. Moreover, please do remember to defragment your computer to make sure that all files on the hard disk always stay close together and then easier to get access to.
In conclusion, there are many ways to solve Windows system crashes problems before reinstalling it. But it is much better for you to know how to easily avoid a crashed computer with some simple measures like defragment your computer regularly.
Slow Computer Problems—Two Methods to Help you Handle Slow Computer Problems
Dec 15th
Have you been puzzled that computer speed is not as fast as before? Have you been doubtful of yourself whether you have done any wrong doings that harms computer? In fact, you do not worry too much because any tiny change in the system may have influence on computer performance. And it is unavoidable to lead to various shifts when you use computer.
However, there is always a method to solve problems. Now, let me introduce some reasons of slow computer for you. After that you can enjoy computer high performance for sure.
Delete resident programs.
The so-called resident programs can be loaded automatically when computer is booting. Such resident programs can not only slow down computer speed but also expense computer resource and memory more quickly. Although those programs are quite useful for your computer, do you really want to use them at the expense of computer speed? As a matter of fact, you do not need to delete them but just disable to load when starting up computer.
And for system restore point, it has its own advantages and disadvantages. It can create general backup files for system and program files and set checking points for them. When system goes crash or is affected by virus, it is easy for you to use system restore function to set many checking point to protect your computer. The users can restore any normal system state by choosing the points.
Though it is quite useful, it is good for computer to turn it off in certain condition. For example, if the computer is affected, system restore may back up the virus as well. That is to say your computer is likely to go back to the affected state when using this function in the future. Besides, such points have to occupy disk space. When the hard disk space is too low, it is wise for you to close down this function. Therefore, you should learn how to enable and disable the “System Restore” function.
Disable the system restore function.
Right-click “My Computer” to choose “System Restore”, in this tab, you have two choices.
One is to disable it in all the partitions by choosing “Turn off system restore in all the drivers”. Another is to disable partially. You can pick the partition you want to disable and click “Settings”.
And as for enabling this you can cross out the options in the same way so as to start up system restore again. But it is advisable for you not to enable it. If your computer is affected by virus or goes crash, it is impossible to enter into system operating interface. How can you use system restore to solve all these problems? So, such function is so pompous that does little good to your computer.
By reading this article, you are supposed to learn two methods to solve slow computer problems. As for other problems in this regard, I think you need to learn more about how to solve computer problems.
Optimize PC performance — How to optimize PC performance by thoroughly cleaning up Windows system
Dec 15th
We know that we can optimize PC performance by cleaning up system junk files, which helps to release more available hard disk space /memory. However, when taking this action, some will miss some necessary tips. Here, we will discuss how to thoroughly clean up Windows system so as to speed up PC and optimize PC performance to some extent.
Normally, we can easily clean up Windows system with the built-in utility: Disk Cleanup. But if noticing, you will find that the junk files come again even though you have just deleted them, which greatly slows down the computer and then affect PC performance. So is there any way to avoid such kind of problem? Of course! Below is what you can do.
1) Go to Start-> Control Panel-> System-> Advanced-> Environmental Variables
2) Highlight TEMP within “User variables for Administrator”->click Edit-> change the variable value for the long list of content to D:\TEMP or some other drives as you like, but not the system C drive.
3) Change the TMP to D:\TMP with the methods above.
4) Change the TEMP and TMP within the “System Variables” according to the method above for these has been the main cause for rapid expansion of system drive which becomes a main obstacle to speed up PC.
5) Right click “My Documents” on the desktop to select “Properties”, and then “Target folder location” to change its location to somewhere as you like such as D:\MyDocuments, click “Move”.
6) Right click Internet Explorer->Properties->General->Click “Setting” in “Temporary Internet files”->”Move folders” to move the Internet temporary files to other drive without the C drive like D:\TemporaryInternetFiles.
7) Go to Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance->settings->Advanced->Change within “Virtual Memory”->select the drives (not the system drive)->custom size->enter the initial and maximal size.
With the above modification, lots of files will be moved to other drives, which will release more hard disk space on C drive to optimize PC performance. But we still want to mention that please do not forget to run a disk defragmentation after the Windows system cleanup for it can help to effectively rearrange the files on the hard disk, making them always stay close together and then speed up PC.
From a questionnaire, we found that only a small amount of PC users realize the importance of hard disk defragmentation and insist on regularly defragmenting the computer. Terribly, more than half users have never run a disk defrag during the lifetime of the computer. How terrible it is! You can image that how fragmented / slow their computers are for it will consume a very longer time for the hard disk to reassemble parts of a same file together, just like looking for same socks in a messy wardrobe.
In conclusion, to optimize PC performance, you can smartly do the above changes to thoroughly and quickly clean up Windows system. But please bear in mind that, it will be wise for you to periodically defragment your computer in order to speed up PC.
Hard disk space — Causes for the loss of hard disk space and how to protect hard disk
Dec 16th
For those who always use computers, they will find that the hard disk space is becoming slower and slower as times by. So what causes the loss of hard disk space and how to protect it has been a main concern for all PC users. Here, let’s learn it together.
1. Hard disk bad tracks
Hard disk bad tracks are the main cause for the loss of hard disk space. A bad track is one that cannot be used due to permanent damage like physical damage to the disk surface. Once there are bad tracks on the hard dick, it becomes emergency for you to timely repair or replace the hard disk for seriously (if too big), it may disaster the whole hard disk. Besides, please do remember to back up the important data or burn it to a disc because a bad track always means that the end of the hard disk lifespan, even though you have ever repaired it. So to protect the hard disk, please do not suddenly turn off the power when it is still running.
2．Too large partition
Whether the hard disk partition is reasonably divided or not directly involves the effective management of the files, and the full use of the hard disk. Ad we all know that, files are stored on the hard disk in unit of cluster, that is, a file will take one or more clusters (combined by one or more sectors). If only a byte in a cluster is taken by a file, it is impossible to use the rest space of the cluster even thought it is free. Hence, the hard disk space will just be wasted. So it is a must to divide reasonable system partitions. Take an 80GB large hard disk as an example, you can divide it into several logical drives like 20GB, 30GB large drive, but it is recommended not to be larger than 40GB.
3. Too many temporary files
When using the computer, it is necessary for us to browse the websites and downloading programs, which result in lots of temporary files on the hard disk. And sometimes, some programs stops suddenly due to some errors or a sudden turnoff the power. This will also bring in large amount of useless temporary files on the hard disk, which make no sense but only waste the disk space. But when trying to get more hard disk space, lots of PC users do not realize that this is one main cause for the loss of hard disk space. So to get more hard disk space and protect it, please simply to run the disk cleanup to regularly clean up the junk files: go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup. Here, you can select the drive and files type you want to clean up. It will be rather easy to handle with, but plays very important role in protecting hard disk.
Besides the aspects above, you can also set the capacity of the recycle bin to take only 5% of the hard disk space and regularly clear it to release more available space.
As you can see that, there are many aspects result in the loss of hard disk space. So it is necessary for us to effort from the corresponding sides to protect hard disk like regularly clean up the useless junk files. But please do not forget to defragment your hard disk in order to effectively protect it.
Optimize PC –How to increase virtual memory and then optimize PC performance
Dec 17th
We know that memory is a vital part of computer for it is needed to run all processes and store data. When it is used out, the system will automatically use part of hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory so as to relieve the stressful memory. But when using the computer or running large application, I believe you have ever experienced an out of virtual memory error. So how can you increase virtual memory and then optimize PC at this time?
1) Regularly scan the computer for viruses
Once the computer is infected by viruses, large amount of memory will be taken, which results in “out of memory” problem. If so, to fix this problem and then optimize PC, please immediately scan the computer with a reliable anti-virus program and do remember to update the virus database to the latest one. By the way, it is recommended to turn on the real-time safeguard feature of the anti-virus program to protect your PC at any time.
2) Reasonably set the virtual memory
If the virtual memory is not setting properly, it will also cause “out of virtual memory” problem. Normally, the size of the virtual memory should be twice as big as the physical memory. If too small, it will affect the PC performance and proper running of the programs. So you can reset it according to the steps below: right click “My Computer” to select “Properties” -> Advanced -> click the “Setting” option within “Performance” -> go to “Advanced” tab in the popping-up windows -> Virtual memory -> “Change” to reset the initial and maximal size.
3) Always retain enough system space
By default, virtual memory page file: “pagefile.sys” is stored in system C drive, which will also results in out of memory error when there is not enough hard disk space. Normally, it is better to retain more than 300MB free available space. So please be careful when installing programs on your computer and timely uninstall the unwanted program and clean up the useless system junk files. Besides, it is recommended to transfer the page file to other drive but not the system drive. To accomplish it, you can use the “virtual memory” option of the “System” applet in the “Control Panel” to transfer the location of virtual memory.
With the above methods, you will easily increase virtual memory and then optimize PC performance. But when taking about optimizing PC performance, I think you should not miss the importance of a simple disk cleanup and disk defragmentation because both help us effectively manage the files on the hard disk and easier to access the data what you need.
Generally speaking, a computer is just like a human being who needs to be carefully taken of, for example, increase virtual memory and then optimize PC performance from the aspects above. Only in this way, will it always run at peak performance.
Optimize Windows 7— How to optimize Windows 7 by cleaning up the system junk files
Dec 18th
It is known to all that we can optimize Windows 7 in many ways. But have you even found that a large amount of disk space in C drive has been taken even thought you have not installed any program on it? Actually, it is the unnecessary files on the hard disk, which make this trouble. Here, you will get solutions on how to optimize Windows 7 by cleaning up the system junk files.
Normally, Windows 7 system junk files are stored in two main areas: one is in the folder; the other is in Windows registry. So when trying to optimize Window 7 by cleaning up the system junk files, please do not forget this point.
Junk files stored in folders include: (suppose C drive is the system drive)
1) Junk files in “My Documents”: C:\Windows\Recent
2) Temporary files come when installing new programs or editing files: c:\windows\temp
3) Files that were deleted into recycle bin: C:\RECYCLED
4) Temporary files when surfing the internet: C:\WINDOWS\History; and
C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
5) Cookies after surfing websites: C:\WINDOWS\Cookies
Junk files in Windows registry include:
When using the computer, the registry will be read and written to frequently, which will leave down kind of trash information, for example, missing shared DLL files, unused file extensions, type library, fonts, application paths, help files, obsolete software. All of these will leave down some useless/invalid entries in Windows registry, bloating it and then cause system slowdowns, freeze-ups, and crashes.
So to optimize Windows 7, it is necessary for you to regularly clean up the useless system junk files from your computer. Normally, it will be very easy to take it out by using the built-in disk cleanup utility: go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and System Tools. Here, you can simply launch the Disk Cleanup and then select the file types you want to delete. In this way, large amount of system junk files like temporary files, download files will be deleted.
But when taking about the a cleanup of the Windows registry, it is recommended that you can scan the computer with a professional registry cleaner rather than delete it manually for once there is something wrong with the Windows registry, the computer will run improperly. Nowadays, with the development of the Internet technology, it will be very easy for you to get access to some free registry cleaner from the website, but please do remember to first back up the Windows registry before every scan.
After cleaning up the system junk files both from the folder and the Windows registry, you can easily optimize Windows 7. But please note that a simple disk defragmentation can not be miss after the two actions because it will help to quickly reassemble the files on the hard disk, making them always stay close so that easy to be reached when necessary. Hence, it will speed up the computer and then optimize PC performance.
Low Memory—How to Increase Windows Memory Efficiently?
Dec 21st
Have you ever been annoyed that your system always reminds you that memory is too low, since you have been using computer for a period of time? It is undoubted that sufficient memory is quite important to run applications smoothly. Well, in this article, you can find several methods to increase windows memory.
In the first place, close down the redundant programs. In fact, if you open too many files or run excessive programs, it may leave little memory to other programs. So, please shut down all the files except those using ones and exit the programs you don not use currently.
Then, restart your computer. Sometimes, if you just exit the program but not restart the computer, this program is unable to give the memory resource back to the system. Therefore, it is advisable for you to restart your computer before running any important application so as to free up enough resources to run it smoothly.
Third, do remember to defragment and clear up hard disk. As computer has been working for you for a long time, it is unavoidable to produce tons of junk in hard disk or on the Internet. Therefore, you should try to get rid of them completely since they are the main cause of low memory. You can defragment disk by using the programs in the Windows or turn to third-party tools. As for removing junks, cleaning up C disk should come to front because it restores many useful programs and useless junks as well. It is the place that you can find tons of temporary and swap files. Delete them without hesitation.
And then, reduce the number of automatically-running programs. When running too many programs automatically, it can not still provide enough memory to support others even restarts the computer. You can clean up some unnecessary system starting programs in the “Configuration Properties”.
Last but not least, reinstall the broken programs. If the system reminds that memory is too low when you just run certain program but others work well, the running program may have been broken. On such condition, you can attempt to remove and reinstall this program and then re-run it to see whether the memory is insufficient or not.
All in all, sincesufficient memory is really quite important for running computer smoothly, you should form a good habit to manage your computer orderly so as to leave little room for any problems that can lead to low memory.
Speed up Windows XP — How to make Windows XP startup faster
Dec 22nd
Have you always been frustrated while you have to wait around for your slow Windows XP computer to startup? In this article, I will show you how to speed up Windows XP by increasing the bootup process of your PC.
1) Give priority to boot from hard disk
Some PC users will always ignore the boot sequence of the devices on the computer and set it to boot from CD-ROM by default, which consumes longer time to read the disk when starting up the Windows XP. Even though there is no disk, it will also automatically read the CD-ROM, which wastes the time and shortens the lifespan of the CD-ROM. So you can set it to boot from hard disk: press “DEL” key to access BIOS settings wizard when starting up the compute -> select “BIOS Features Setup” and press “Enter” -> select “Boot Sequence” and then “CD-ROM”.
2) Enable Quick Boot
There is a tab named “Quick Boot” in majority computers, which located under “Advanced BIOS Features”. Please enable it so when booting up the computer, there will be no detection towards the hardware and then speed up Windows XP.
3) Mark out unnecessary equipments
Currently, even though parallel and serial ports are not popular any more, there are still some interfaces on the motherboard. At this point, we can surely mark them out from BIOS to make Windows XP startup faster. After accessing BIOS wizard, select “PNP，PCI&ONBOARD I/O”, select “Onboard Serial Port1” and then set it to “Disable”. Adopt this idea, you can also disable the IDE2, parallel ports, USB and floppy drives. In this way, there is no need for the system to load more useless drives when booting up the computer and then speed it up from startup.
4) Disable some unnecessary services and startup items
In windows XP, the system will automatically enable some services that do not needed by lots of PC users, normally as more as 30. But actually, what we need is only 6 of them. So we can disable some unnecessary services to save some memory and speed up the computer. Here is what you should go: Start -> Run -> type “services.msc” and press “Enter” to start the system configuration utility. In the “Startup” tab, you will see a list of all the startup programs that load automatically when you boot up your computer. The more items you have checked here, the longer it takes for your computer to startup. So please check the list here and uncheck the programs that you don’t want to start up and click “OK”.
5) Regularly “lose weight” of system junk files
We know that when using the computer, there is no doubt some system junk generated on the hard disk. So it is necessary for us to run the Disk Cleanup utility to regular get rid of some unneeded junk files. Hence, it will not only free up the hard disk space, but also release more available memory for the programs that you do need, speeding up Windows XP. But do not forget to run a disk defragment after that to ensure compact and contiguous hard disk files all the time.
As what you can see above, to speed up Windows XP, it is easy for you to first optimize the bootup process of your PC with very simple methods. If you are annoying with your slower computer right now, do remember to take them immediately.
Optimize PC—How to solve Windows XP shutdown issues?
Dec 23rd
From a fact study, we sound that shutdown problems continue to be one of the primary issues for lots of XP users, and the most common one is unable to shut down the computer. Even though it is not as frustrated as the phenomenon of fail to start the computer, I believe it won’t be a happy experience. This article will show you how to solve such “unable to shut down” shutdown issue to optimize PC.
1. If there are still too many programs running, sometime it will consume a very longer time to shut down or unable to shut down. So the safest thing that you need to do is to make sure that all programs have been closed before shutting down. This alone may help you solve the problem. But please do not just look at the processes in the system tray. You can open “Tasks Manager” or “Msconfig” from Start to turn off some running programs.
2. Sometimes, the APM will also cause “unable to shut down” problem. You can check it by following the steps here: Start ->Control Panel-> Power Options -> click the “APM” tab and try unchecking the option “Enable Advanced Power Management Support” -> shut down the computer. Once you can successfully turn off the computer after this simple change, you can make sure that the problem probably lies in APM, optimizing PC performance.
3. I believe that some of you have ever received the below tip when just starting up the computer: “It is now safe to turn off your computer”, or the computer just closes down immediately when starting up the computer. Generally speaking, this problem occurs when the Wininit.exe orVmm32.vxd file is corrupted. So you can solve it by re-evoking these two files from Windows installer and locate them under the directory: Windows\\system.
4. Last, what you need to check is your CMOS settings. Normally, an incorrect CMOS setting will also cause “unable to shut down” shutdown issue. So you can press “DEL” tab to access CMOS setting wizard when starting up the computer and then specially check the whether the boot sequence of CPU, Power Management, Virus Detection is correct or not. You can reference the Motherboard Manual to correctly set it. IF you are not so sure, you can directly use the factory default settings to optimize PC performance.
With the about troubleshooting solutions, you can easily solve the shutdown issue. But to my own experience, it is necessary for you to do some things to avoid such kind of problem such as regularly scan the computer for viruses / spyware, or frequently clear the Windows registry or system junk files and defragment the computer. Believe me, it will return you a smooth computer life easily.
As what you can see above, you can fix some shutdown issues relaxingly with some simple solution. But it is recommended that you can pay attention to optimize PC performance in daily life to avoid such problem. That will be much valuable, in my opinion!
Optimize Computer Performance—Useful Knowledge to Optimize Computer Performance in Terms of Programs
Dec 23rd
Have you found your computer performance is decreasing day by day? For example, it takes more and more time to open files, visit websites or play games. You may have heard a lot of methods to optimize computer performance. Today, in this article, I would like to introduce certain methods to improve computer performance in terms of programs.
Since some of programs in the Windows are extremely significant for computer, they should take priority of others. That is to say, such core program performance plays important in computer stable running. Well, how to enhance the performance of core programs in the Windows?
When there are several programs running in the Windows, it is normal that Windows may replace the memory which may not be used currently to hard disk in order to perform several programs at the same time within relatively little memory. However, the frequent replacement between memory and hard disk in the way can slow down the speed of performing programs for sure because system has to run come-and-go.
As for the core programs in the Windows, they have to face such replacement as well. If memory is too low when system is running certain program, Windows may put some of the core programs to the hard disk which are not used currently. Although programs are running smoothly in this way, it has to take more and more time to use these replaced programs again when you need them because system has to move them from hard disk to memory. In this regard, it may reduce system running efficiency without question.
Therefore if the memory is not large enough, you can set not to replace kernel programs and just let them always resident in the memory so as to optimize computer performance.
In order to do that, you can modify the registry. Click “Start”—“Run” and type “REGEDIT”. Then, you can open “Registry Editor”, find out “HKEY/LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CURRENTCONTROLSET/CONTROL/Session Manager/Memory/ Management” and set up or edit DWORD value named “Disable Paging Executive” in the right blanket and then change the key value as “1” which means you have forbidden replacing core programs while 0 means you can allow such operation. Do remember to clear up registry after doing changes in it.
If your computer memory is too low, you can set the value of virtual memory properly so as to maximize the space for running programs smoothly.
Program performance is very important for computer running. If you want to optimize computer performance, it is necessary for you to consider optimizing program at first.
Optimize Computer Performance—How to Optimize Computer Performance in All-round Ways
Jan 5th
Since you have been using computer for a long time, it is undeniable that computer performance is reducing day by day, such as computer is running slower and slower, or an increasing number of junks are piling up in the computer.
If such problems have occurred in your computer, it is an alarm that you should take some actions to fix them so as to optimize computer performance. Well, that is what I want to tell you in this article.
1. Clean and optimize registry
When Windows boot up, system needs to read data in the registry and put them in the ram temporarily. Windows spend most time in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary to clean and optimize registry. As for how to do that, you can turn to certain optimizer to help you.
2. Delete excessive dynamic library link files.
In the Windows-based operating systems, there are many dynamic library link files in the system subdirectory. Among them, some are shared by many files while some are quite useless. In order to free up disk space and improve computer speed, you can delete them on condition that you are skillful in computer technology.
3. Maintain system regularly.
If you have put too many games and applications with lot of old and useless data, it is no doubt computer is running slower and slower as well as booting computer.
Therefore, you should maintain computer completely at proper intervals. For example, to defragment disk is really a good way to improve computer performance. Besides, it is a must to defragment the disk where you put systematic programs. This is the right way to speed up starting up order of Windows correctly.
4. Expand virtual memory
If you have large disk, it is quite suitable for you to set virtual memory. You can point to a disk that is seldom used and then fix maximum and minimum values which is twice as that of physical memory. In this way, when virtual memory is applying hard disk, the value does not have to change unstably. Instead, system can apply fixed space as virtual memory so as to speed up read-write speed.
What is more, it is advisable for you to set the values after defragmentation because virtual memory should be put in a continuous space without any fragment. Only by doing this, it can play greater role in optimizing computer performance.
If you are eager to optimize computer performance, you should follow the steps one by one because I have introduced the main causes and solutions to improve computer performance in all-round way.
Optimize Vista — How to optimize Vista when it stops responding
Jan 5th
When using Windows Vista operating system, it will sometimes stop responding when booting up the computer or in the midst of doing something because of a corrupted registry, system files and a miss of the device driver files. So how can we effectively solve it to optimize Vista? Here, a common solution will be discussed.
To solve the stop-responding issue and then optimize Vista, it is necessary to use the Windows Vista installation disc and the follow the steps below to fix the problem:
1) Insert the Windows Vista installation disc and boot your system (Note that you have set it to boot from CD or DVD)
2) Set the preferred language and then click “Next” to proceed.
3) Click “Repair My Computer”.
4) Then, select the operating system to be repaired in “System Recovery Options” dialog box and then click “Next”.
5) Click to select “Startup Repair” option in same dialog box to automatically detect and then correct startup problems which result in stop-responding problems. Click “Finish” when the process gets completed.
But if you have preinstalled recovery option, you can simply follow the steps below to fix the issue rather than use Windows Vista installation disc to use “Startup Repair” tool.
1) Remove all floppy disks, CD and DVD from the computer, and then restart the computer
2) Follow one of the operations below to proceed:
A. If you only have one operating system, please directly get into Windows safe mode
B. If you have multiple operating systems, you can first select the one to be repaired and then press F8 to get into safe mode.
3) Select “Repair My Computer” within the “Advanced Boot Options” and press “Enter”.
4) Click one keyboard layout in the list and press “Next”.
5) Click one user in the list, enter the password and click “OK”.
6) Select “Startup Repair” option within “System Recovery Options” dialog box.
7) When the repair process finishes, simply click “Finish”.
(Note: if the problem still remains after you reboot your computer, please repeat the steps above to fix the problem)
With the simple steps above, you can easily fix the problem and then optimize your computer. But here, I still want to mention that to optimize Vista, it is necessary for you to pay attention to some other dispensable daily maintenance such as regularly run the built-in Disk Cleanup to clear the useless system junk files, or timely uninstall the unwanted programs from the computer, which should be followed by a simple disk defragmentation to rearrange the files on the hard disk, making them always stay at a single same place of the hard disk and much easier to input or output when necessary, which will greatly speed up the computer and avoid system crashes, freeze-up.
In conclusion, when using the computer, it is necessary for us to master some solutions to fix the stop-responding problem to optimize Vista, but a proper daily maintenance is more important in optimizing the computer, in my opinion.
Improve Computer Speed—Tips to Improve Computer Speed Manually
Jan 4th
It is natural that computer may run slower and slower since you have been using it for a long time. Have you ever tried to speed up your computer by many methods which are from friends or Internet? Now matter they are useful or not, you should read this article because I will tell you some tips to improve computer speed manually.
Many users are fans of using beautiful themes or wallpapers on the desktop. However, you have to pay for these beautiful things, that is, your computer must spend a large number of ram to support the extravagance in using resource. And excessive icons can slow down computer as well. Because system has to check whether it is needed to start up theme and then to load it, this is the way that so many themes take up a lot of memory.
At the same, system has to search and verify the validity of desktop shortcuts. That is to say, more shortcuts are there, more time the system has to expend. Therefore, it is advisable not to set themes. If you really want to do that, a piece of beautiful wallpaper is quite enough. And, you are able to classify these desktop shortcuts and put them into specific folder. By doing this, it is not only easy to administrate but can also speed up loading.
Then, since Anti-virus programs are hassles for computer as well, you can remove some of them if you have installed a lot of such programs. Some anti-virus software has provided to scan system when computer is booting. Well, the shortcomings of such function are overwhelming its advantages, because it may cost a lot of time without question.
As a matter of fact, if you have opened the real-time monitoring function and checked system regularly, it is unnecessary to scan the system when computer is starting up. You had better forbid such function so as to improve computer speed.
Besides, it is better not to set any memory optimizer software to work automatically when computer is booting. Even though computer administrates memory when starting up, it can do little help to computer but slow down starting up speed greatly. In fact, Windows has provided scientific and efficient administration to the memory and you do not need to do that by yourself.
Last but not least, do not forget to defragment disk regularly no matter using Windows programs or any other defragmenting programs. It can help you improve computer speed a lot.
In order to improve computer speed, you also need to clear registry and hard disk as well. Most importantly, it is to clear up computer regularly to keep computer in a good state with high speed.
Speed up computers —- How to speed up computers easily to enjoy a faster computer for 2010
Jan 4th
Do you want to speed up your computer and enjoy a faster computer every day in 2010? I believe the answer is “Yes”. Here, you can find very simple ways to speed up computers.
First of all, it is sure that, at some point in time, an upgrade of the RAM modules, graphics card, or maybe even purchase a whole new computer package helps to speed up the computer. But here, we will discuss some very simple ways to speed up computers with paying any extra dollars.
1. Regularly scan the computer for viruses. We know that once the computer is infected by viruses, lots of system resources will be taken up, which greatly slow down the computer. What is more terrible is that it will sometimes steal users’ privacy. So to speed up your computer, what you need to do first is to install an reliable anti-virus program on your computer, and regularly scan your computer to make sure that it is always far away from viruses.
2）To speed up your computer, secondly you have to make sure that the system does not automatically load too many unnecessary programs at starting up. If too mane programs load at one time, you can image how slow it is just like running many programs / opening several websites at the same time. So it is necessary for you to go to Start -> Run ->type “msconfig” to access System Configuration Utility ->disable the programs that do not need to run at windows startup within the “Startup” tab.
By the way, when trying to speed up the computer, it is recommended to uninstall the unwanted programs, delete the unused files that you don’t need, and clean up the system junk files from your computer which is followed by a simple disk defragmentation—a good solution to regain a faster computer by rearranging the files on your computer. All of these rather simple steps help you easily release more available memory for the proper running of the programs on your computer.
3) Increase the startup /shutdown speed, which is an indispensable part when attempting to speed up your computer. When shutting down the computer, it will send messages to the running programs and the remote sever, telling them that the computer is going to shut down, and the system will begin to shut down after receiving response. So you can reset the Auto End Tasks to speed up the computer: please open Registry Editor ->locate “HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop” ->change the value data of “AutoEndTasks” to “1” ->change the value data of the sub-brand “HungAppTimeout” to “2000” or less than “2000”; then please go to find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl” and change the value data of “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” to “2000” or less than “2000”. After this setting, the computer will be much faster when starting up or shutting down.
4) Fourthly, to speed up your computer, you can simply increase the broadband speed. Normally, Windows XP will reserve 20% broadband, which has no meaningful significance for the users. In my opinion, it is much better to make full use of it rather than let it idle. You can go to “Start” -> Run ->type “gpedit.msc” to open “Group Policy Editor”->Computer Configuration ->Administrative Templates ->Network ->QoS Packet Scheduler ->right click “Limit reservable Bandwidth” to select “Properties” ->click “Enable” within the popping- up windows -> change the Bandwidth limit from the default 20 to 0. Hence, all bandwidth will be released and greatly speed up computers.
With the simple four steps above, you can easily speed up your computer and then enjoy a faster computer every day in 2010. If you are annoyed with your slow computer right now, please do not miss the tips above.
Slow Network—Tips to Fix Slow Network Problems
Dec 31st
Have you ever annoyed that the network speed is quite slower than before? For example, it takes more and more time to open a website while there is nothing wrong with the Explorer. Well, in this article, you can learn some useful tips to fix slow network problems.
In the very first place, it is the problem of network itself. The bandwidth of aim website server is not large or overloaded. This is the easiest problem and what you need to do is to change to other websites or change other to visit it.
Secondly, you may have used too many firewalls. If you use too many firewalls, it can slow down network for sure. The simplest way is to uninstall those unnecessary ones and just need to keep a powerful one, it is sufficient to serve very well for computer. You can remove such excessive firewall so as to improve net work speed.
And then, the system resource is too low. It is probably that there are excessive applications running in the background and computer is unable to spare enough resource for network. In order to solve this problem, you should load programs and delete useless applications and files properly so as to free up more space. By doing this, you can speed up network.
Next, computer worms may reduce network speed. Worm virus that is spread through E-mail has affected network more and more seriously. Such virus can force the affected users to send E-mails restlessly. Numerous junk E-mails are sent from your computer every second while millions of them are returned to your server in batches.
In this way, such rubbish is piling up in the server and slows down speed. As a result, you should upgrade anti-virus software and your computer and install patching program in time as well. And do not forget to uninstall those unnecessary services and to close down needless ports so as to improve safety and stability of system.
Besides, slow network problem may be caused by problems in internet cable, loops in the network, malfunction of network equipment and so forth. But they are quite professional for you. If you want to keep high network speedyou should form a good habit of using computer, such as clear up disk regularly.
Optimize PC performance – How to optimize PC performance by solving Windows XP read / write errors
Dec 31st
During the usage of Windows XP, it is inevitable that you have ever received kinds of read / write errors such as “xx memory can not be read or written”. So what should we do to effectively straighten them out and avoid the same problems when running large applications or games in the future? In fact, when unfortunately encountering the above problems, you can easily follow the steps below to solve the problem to optimize PC performance.
1) Remove some invalid plug-ins. When surfing the internet, some plug-ins will automatically install on the computer without letting us know. Seriously, some will be very easy to conflict with other applications, which indirectly results in system memory read/ write errors. In order to optimize PC performance, and provide a clean, stable working environment for the large applications and computer games, it is recommended that you can regularly run security software to check whether there are invalid plug-ins on the computer and timely remove them from the system.
2) Manually restore system services. If there is something wrong with the service “Windows Management Instrumentation”, a system memory read / write error will also occur. So you can manually restore this service in order to optimize PC performance. You can exactly follow the step below: go to Start ->run ->type “services.msc” to access “Services”. Here, please locate “Windows Management Instrumentation”->right click it to select “Properties” ->click “Stop” in the popping-up General tab to temporarily disable this service. Then please open system manager and then open the below folders one by one: Windows->System32->Wbem->Repository, and back up all folders within “Repository”. Last, please reboot your computer and restart “Windows Management Instrumentation” service.
3) Repair corrupted system files. Once the computer is infected by viruses, some files will be removed incorrectly, which results in memory read / write errors. So a repair of the corrupted system files is needed. What you need to do is to run an anti-virus program to check whether the computer is infected by viruses or spyware and turn on the real-time safeguard to protect your computer at any time.
Then you can use the “sfc” demand to repair the corrupted system files: go to Run -> CMD to open the “Command Prompt” windows -> enter “sfc/scannow” and press Enter to proceed the scan process. Once there is a corrupted system file, you will be promoted to insert the Windows installation disc to replace the corrupted files.
4) Last, to avoid this problem, what you need to do vitally is to release more available memory. So when running large application, you can first turn off other running program expect the one that you do need. Besides, please do remember to timely uninstall the unwanted programs that you do not need to release more available memory. Moreover, you should run a Disc Cleanup to regularly clear the useless system junk files from your computer, which followed by a simple disk defragmentation. In this way, all files will be arranged coherently on the hard disk and easier to be accessed to, which will not only fix the memory read or write errors but also optimize PC performance.
In conclusion, with the simple steps above, you can easily fix the read / write errors and then optimize PC performance greatly. But please note that no matter how brand-new your computer is right now, if it lacks proper daily maintenance, it will not work properly for you.
Slow Computer—Four Tips to Fix Slow Compute Speed Quickly
Dec 30th
Slow computer is so hassle for users but it is unavoidable since you have been using it for a long time. If you turn a blind eye to it, your computer speed may be slower and slower and can not fix such problem automatically. Therefore you should learn some methods to fix slow computer speed besides using third-parties tools.
In this article, I would like to introduce four tips to improve your computer speed manually. It is worthwhile for you reading it.
1. Clear up disk space.
If you do not have high computer configuration and not clear up computer for a long time, it is likely that your computer is running slower and slower because the hard disk is crammed with too many junk files. If you computer is fast before but slows down recently, you need to clean up C disk as soon as possible. As for the junk files, you can the temporary and swap files, certain page files, history records files and so on. Most of them are hidden in the C drive.
2. By deleting the junk files in the C drive, your computer is able to run faster than before. Besides, you have to defrag C drive after wiping those junks. You can click “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools”, you will see the defragmenting programs. And then it is necessary to clear up disk which is put in the same place as defragmenting one.
Next, set up a system restore point which is also in the “System Tools”. After doing that, you should close it down since restore point may consume a lot of C drive space. But it can help you restore the system to the normal state when you set up the point.
3. Uninstall some programs that you seldom use. It is undoubted that they take up too much space without doing any tangible things for computer. It is better to get rid of them, along with some useless functions such as “Error Reporting” and “Hibernation” which mean nothing for you but occupy the space.
4. Normally, when computer memory is too low, virtual memory will be created to solve such problem temporarily. You can set the value of virtual memory by hand. However too large or too small values can do harm to computer. You should set proper value for the maximum and minimum values respectively.
Slow computer is not so disturbing if you have grasped the correct methods to fix it. Besides, you can learn more about fixing slow computer problems by clicking the links.
Speed up Vista — How to greatly speed up Vista on low-configuration computers
Dec 30th
If you are using Vista operating system, you will find that it does not run as quickly and smoothly as XP does. Sometimes, it will take forever to load when starting up the computer. If you are tried of your slow Vista, please do not miss the tips here on how to speed up Vista and then make it run smoothly on low-configuration computers.
To speed up Vista, what you need to do first is to increase the Window popup speed. We all know that Vista uses animation effect when opening windows. For computers which have less memory, this will greatly affect the speed to open windows, slowing down the computer. So you can turn off the animation effect to get faster computer speed. Here is what you should go: open Registry Editor -> locate“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Window Metrics” brand -> Find “MinAniMate” and change its value data from “1” to “0”. In this way, when starting up the Vista computer, it won’t automatically load the animation effect, which greatly speeds up Windows Vista.
Secondly, to greatly speed up Vista, you should shorten the shutdown time. When shutting down Vista computer, the system itself will automatically close the programs / services which are still running. If there is a program which does not stop working within the system default time, the system will force to close it. So it is necessary to do some preparations before to avoid a waste of time when shutting down the computer. You can follow the steps here to do some modification: Open Registry Editor -> find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control” -> find and change the value data of “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” to 2000 or less than 2000.
Thirdly, optimize memory. We know that Vista operating system provides us a very gorgeous desktop when compared with XP, but it comes at the expense of large amount of memory. So to speed up Vista, what we need to do is to cancel some unnecessary functions to release more available memory.
1) Cancel Automatic Updates: My Computer ->Properties ->Automatic Updates ->tick “Turn off Automatic Updates” -> click “Ok” to save the settings.
2) Turn off System Restore within System Properties, which operates the same as what you have done to turn off automatic updates.
3) Turn off some unnecessary effects within Visual Effects: My Computer ->Properties ->Advanced -> Settings within “Performance” -> click “Custom” within the appearing “Visual Effects” window. Here, you can cancel the unnecessary items and just leave the three options below: Show shadows under mouse pointer、Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop and Use visual styles on windows and buttons. With the three steps above, it will maximally release at lease 3MB available memory.
Last but not the lease, to get a faster Vista, what you need to do is to disable some unnecessary services. When booting up the computer, some unneeded services will load automatically at background. Though a single service will not take large amount of memory, if accumulated, it will be numerous. So do remember to disable the services that you do not need to start at Windows startup: log in your computer as an administrator ->go to “Start” ->Run ->type “services.msc” and press Enter to access “Services”. Here, you can easily close the services that you do not need.
As what you can see above that, you can greatly speed up Vista with some very simple steps. But to always enjoy a faster windows Vista on low-configuration computers, you still need to take some daily maintenances to always optimize your computer, for example, regularly run a virus scan, Disk Cleanup to delete the unused files and Disk Defragmenter to arrange the files in order.
Blue Screen Problems—How to Prevent Blue Screen Problems in Advance
Dec 29th
Have you ever encountered that your computer is freezing up even sometimes falls into blue screen? This must be the last thing of computer problems for all the users to see. As a matter of fact, the best methods to fix blue screen problem is to prevent it in advance rather than figure it out when it happens.
This is what I want to share with you in this article—how to prevent blue screen problems in advance. Here are some tips to do that based on my own experience.
1. You should back up importance registry files manually at proper intervals. In this way, computer will not be in a mess if system goes wrong but there are not alternative backup files at hand.
2. For common users, if computer is running normally, it is unnecessary to upgrade graphic card and BIOS and driver programs of main board. You may not know that too much upgrading can harm system performance as well.
3. You should avoid closing down computer abnormally in order to lessen the number of lost files, such as Dynamic Library Links files (DLL) which is quite important for smooth computer running. You should be patient enough to wait for the shutting down of your computer completely.
4. And you had better not install useless software as possible as you can. If you are not skillful enough, you should not uninstall or delete programs manually so as to reduce the number of illegal alternative files.
5. To be honestly, if you do not have large RAM and administrative programs, it is safe for you not to run large programs at the same time. What is more, if you find system is creaking when listening to MP3, the problems are caused likely by low memory.
6. You should check and optimize system files regularly. You can click “
Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“Command Prompt” and then type “sfc” so as to check lost files and proofread versions. Besides, you can clear up disk and defragment disk regularly as well. It is also a good method to prevent blue screen problems by freeing up more disk space.
Since blue screen is really a disaster for all the users, you should learn to prevent such accident in advance rather than to fix blue screen problem hastily.
How to make your computer faster? Useful methods to speed up computer at startup
Dec 29th
I believe when using the computer, you have ever wondered how to make your computer faster, and it is a desire hope for all PC users to have a faster computer. Normally, a slow startup will make you crazy, sitting there without doing anything. Here, some methods will be discussed on how to get a faster startup speed.
To make your computer faster at startup, first of all, please open System Properties ( right click My Computer to select Properties), and then click “Advanced” tab, go to “Settings” within “Startup and Recovery” option, and then cancel the default checking of the two options within “System Startup”. But if you are using multiple-systems, please do not uncheck the option “Time to display list of operating system”.
After the above settings, please return to “Hardware” and then “Device Manager” to open “IDE ATA/ ATAPI Controller”. Here, please double click to open “Secondary IDE Channel”->go to Advanced Settings -> change the transfer mode of Device 1 and 2 to “DMA if available” ->change the Device Type to None if you can ->click OK to save your settings. Then, please set the Primary IDE channel with the above methods.
Secondly, it is necessary for you to slightly modify your Windows registry to speed up your computer. Please open Registry Editor ->click “Edit” on the top ->go to “Find” and type “AutoEndTasks” and click “Find Next. Once you have found it out, please click it to set its value data to “1”. Then, go to find and change the value data of “HungAppTimeout” and “WaitToKillAppTimeout” to 2000 or less than 2000. In this way, the computer will run much faster when starting up or shutting down the computer for it will automatically turn off the programs that have no response or reduce the waiting time for a non-responsible application.
After the above settings, you can reboot your computer to experience a completely faster startup speed. But to make your computer much faster, please do not miss the tips below: go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> click “Edit” within System Startup to add “/noguiboot”next to “fastdetect”. In this way, when starting up the computer, the annoying scroll bar will not display, which speeds up your computer. But if you really like the scroll bar, there is no need for you to take this step.
Last, to speed up a computer at startup, it is necessary for you to use a fixed IP address. Hence, there is no need for the system to search and get a randomly appointed IP address. You can right click My Network Places to select “Properties” -> click “Local Connection” to go to “Properties” -> Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to enter a fixed IP address.
In conclusion, you can easily make your computer faster. But to my own experience, a regular virus scan, disk cleanup and disk defragmentation can not be missed when trying to speed up your computer. Only with this simple maintenance in daily life, can you always enjoy a faster computer.