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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.
Computer Maintenance—How to Maintain Hard Disk Correctly
Nov 30th
As one of most durable fixings among computer components, hard disk can be used for six to seven years on condition that it is preserved well. Now, I will tell you how to maintain hard disk correctly.
The hard disk maintenance can be divided into two aspects. From point of view of hardware, it is better to use case, especially for those computer players. Although putting computer on the desk can help heat radiation and uninstall, it can harm computer hardware as well and hard disk in particular. Since hard disk is working with high speed, any unstable wave may lead to furious collision between disk head and Disc. And, you should avoid high temperature when using computer because it can affect computer working normally and bring damages to hard disk.
At the same time although some users know correct hard disk maintenance can do good to computer, their hard disks are still suffered from damages due to improper operations.
Though they have learned regular defragmentation can do good for hard disk from websites, they do not realize how “regular” means. If they think it can speed up computer when defragmenting hourly, it is completely wrong. As a matter of fact, frequent disk defragmentation may drag disk using efficiency. In the long run, it falls short of improving computer speed, even run counter to the desire.
What is good for hard disk and computer is to defragment properly. If you do not defragment disk for a long time, an increasingly number of disk fragments are piling in the hard disk. Then, when you visit certain of them in the future, it may take much more to read these files. Since time goes by, it can reduce files visiting speed and also harm disk tracks probably.
And when copying files, some prefer to copy several files at one time but do not know that the hard disk is overburdening, since you may find hard disk creaking loudly. Therefore, you should use anti-virus software to protect your hard disks, for example CIH may destroy the partitions in the hard disk and result in the loss of data.
Besides, do not try to use disk compress technology in the system tools. At present, disk capacity is large enough to support the computer running. It is really unnecessary to save disk space by compressing hard disks. What is more, it can slow down disk read-write data speed and affect disk usage indirectly. If you urgently want to free up disk space, it is better for you to get rid of junk files such as temporary and swap ones.
Many users do not form a good habit of closing down computer. They are hurry to pull out electric power without shutting down computer completely, even some turn off switch. However, the computer has not been replaced yet. Therefore, you should pay closed attention to whether hard disk indicator is on or not when turning off computer. It is a good habit for you in order to maintain your computer well.
In this regard, you may find it is very important to form a good habit of maintaining computer correctly, because it has influenced on hard disk and computer performance. It is a must for you to shape such good habit so as to guarantee your computer can work for you efficiently.
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.
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.