In order to make computers work at peak performance, it is necessary for us to maintain the computer regularly in our daily life, in addition to the good quality. But most of the time, lots of people have neglected that some very simply actions in our daily life can help to greatly maintain PC performance, making it always run a maximum speed.

No matter how brand-new the computer is right now, with the numerous times of creating/deleting/ updating/downloading file actions, there will be lots of useful or useless files coming. When there is not enough available free space for a large file, the file will be scattered into different units and then saved discontinuously on the hard disk. With the increasing amount of the discontinuous files, it is needed for the hard disk heads to move back and forth frequently in order to retrieve the files. Hence, it will slow down the speed to access files and shorten the lifespan of the hard disk. In order to make the computer run faster and extend the lifespan of the hard disk, it is necessary for us to clean up or defragment the computer regularly to make the necessary files always stay close together and then maintain PC performance.

It is very easy to clean up or defragment the hard disk by following the steps below: go to Start -> All programs -> accessories -> System Tools to select disk cleanup/ disk defragmenter to begin the maintain processes. But please remember to run a disk cleanup before the disk defragmentation. Besides, please be patient when it takes longer time, and do not run other programs until the end of the cleanup or defragmentation. These are what I always do in my daily life to always maintain my PC performance, and completely find that it is running much faster than before.

But here, to maintain PC performance, I recommend you a defrag program named Advanced Defrag, which I have recently come across and find valuable in defragmenting hard disk. If you have ever ignored this point in maintaining PC performance, please go to take action right now.