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Optimize PC Performance—How Protect Hard Disk
Nov 26th
If you hope the computer can always work like new, you are supposed not to be too lazy to maintain your computer. As the storage of the computer, the hard disk like other computer parts also needs your careful maintenance. In this article, I would like to tell you how to protect hard disk in order to optimize PC performance.
In the first place, you should try to prevent bad tracks in the hard disk.
When starting up computer, it is impossible to pilot the hard disk even you use floppy disk or CD to start up computer, you can see those driver letter but cannot do any operations to this partition. If so, you should be aware that bad track is in it probably. Any bad track can damage hard disk, even it is just a cluster. On such condition, you should distinguish what kind of the bad track is and solve them respectively—run Scandisk program or replace and maintain it with retailer or manufacturer.
Secondly, you should pay close attention to guard against virus and Trojan programs. It is known to all that they are quite disaster for every part of computer. What is more, hard disk is the main objective of computer attacking virus. So, you should make use of anti-virus software to get rid of those viruses and maintain and back up important data and update such protecting programs in time. It is advisable for you not to use any unknown applications and to check virus and Trojan ahead of running them. The viruses are really headache for computer. You should prevent them from attacking the disks.
Thirdly, defragmentation is a good choice.
After using computer for a lot of time, due to the restoring and deleting of files, the files and available space have to become scattered in the hard disk. If you do not defragment them, the disk may reduce its restoring efficiency. And disk defragmenting program can put the files into continuous space and make the disk available space tidy and clean without taken up by fragments disorderly. You can start up the defragmenting program in the Windows or turn to third-party tools, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Besides, you can let hard disk brainpower at rest.
If you can keep such function closed, it can do great help to facilitate hard disk working and expand using time. You can click “Control Panel” and choose “Power Management”. It is OK for you to set the time as fifteen minutes in the “Close down hard disk” column. It is better for you to protect the hard disk.
And for you, you should form a good habit of closing down computer correctly. The improper power shutdown can lead to violent attrition between disk head and disk surface. You should follow the normal computer closing down procedure. Any mistake or error in this regard may do harm to disk.
All in all, you should give your attention to daily hard disk maintenance. You can learn more ways to optimize PC performance.
Disk Defragment—How to Avoid Problems of Defragmentation
Nov 3rd
Have you ever tried to defragment disk in hope to speed up your computer, but only to encounter a mass of problems? If so, you cannot afford to miss this article, because you can find the methods to solve it in it.
First of all, you should know how to defragment it in the Windows. You can click “Start”> “All Programs”> “Accessories” > “System Tools” > “Disk Defragmenter”, in the dialog box, you can choose one or all the disk to defragment and then click “OK”. During defragmentation, you can click “View Report” to see the current defragmenting process. But, if you cannot find such disk defragmenter program in the accessories, it means that you do not install it before. So you can install it by clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Add/Remove Programs” to accomplish that.
Though you can use this program, if you use it incorrectly, it is vulnerable of problems. So, here are some tips for you to defragment smoothly.
It is a must for you to close down all the applications when defragmenting and not to perform any read-write operation to it. If the disk defragmenter finds any such operation, it may start to defrag again and again.
You should defragment disk at proper intervals. Normally, the frequently used disk partition is supposed to be cleaned up once a week, like C disk. As for the special disk, you even have to do that once a day. In other word, you should defragment different disks based on different using situations.
Some Windows system can rearrange the program files in the disk so as to faster the program startup. However, such function is really time-consuming and inefficient. If you want to often defragment disk, you can cancel such function by clicking “Settings” in the driver choose dialog box and crossing out the option of rearranging the program files to faster the program startup.
All in all, you should be very careful in defragmenting disk. But, if you think it is rather energy-consuming, you can turn to certain tools to save your energy and time.