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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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.