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Optimize Computer Performance—Useful Methods to Improve Computer Performance

It is undoubted that computer is quite useful in this modern society, even most work can not be finished well without computer. So, high computer performance is so important for all the users. Well, in this article, I will tell you some methods to improve computer performance usefully.

You should not neglect the influence of using character on computer speed.
Although Microsoft claims that Windows operating systems can install over one thousand of characters, in fact, more than five hundred can bring about problems to your computer. For example, the character disappears from listing of applications and Windows startup speed falls obviously. Therefore, you can delete those characters that you do not use usually. Meanwhile, you are supposed to backup them in case any accidents happen in the future.

You can simplify Windows system.
Compared to DOS system, Windows is too bulky and becoming larger and larger as the daily operations such as installing new software, loading runtime library, adding new games and so on. What is worse, the registry and runtime library along with the directory become larger without question. Even though you have deleted certain program, its DLL files still exist there. As time goes by, DLL dynamic link library is increasing day by day when starting or exiting Windows. That is why system is running slower and slower. At this moment you need to get rid of those DLL programs completely. It is suggested that you can reinstall your system at proper time.

You should clear up file fragments in the hard disk regularly.
Hard disk is one of the computer assemblies that are used frequently. If you perform too many operations to hard disks, it can make files restore discontinuously and takes longer and longer to read files. At this time, you need to use disk defragmenting program provided by Windows systems. Such program is able to rearrange the files and available space in the hard disks in order to speed up file reading and program running. And at the same time, it can monitor software’s loading frequency and put frequently-used application into read fastest disk position so as to reduce the time to search for tracks as much as possible. By doing this, it can accelerate reading speed. You can start this program in “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”—“Disk Defragmenter”. Disk defragmentation can optimize computer performance for sure, it is worthwhile having a try. Or, you can use other specific defragmenting programs to help you if you dislike the slow speed of Windows program.

Besides, you can delete starting random programs.
What is starting random program? It is the program loaded when booting system. They can not only slow down booting speed but also expend computer resource and memory faster. You can type “Msconfig” in the “Run” to open system configuration to stop those disturbing programs.

By reading this article, I am sure you can learn some ways to optimize computer performance. But it is far from enough to improve computer speed, you ought to get more knowledge in this regard.

Slow PC Speed—How to Optimize Computer Performance

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.