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Improve Windows Speed—How to Improve Windows Speed by Improving Hard disk Performance
Dec 28th
Although Windows system can provide a bunch of useful and convenient service for users, it also has many shortcomings. For example, it is fast to consume system resource and users have to face shortage of disk space. In this article, you can learn some methods to improve Windows speed by improving hard disk performance.
First of all, you should check whether you have compressed disk or not. Since compressing disk can reduce computer performance seriously and slow down system speed for sure. Therefore, you should check whether you have used such function. Right-click the drive, click “General” to see if you have enabled to compress disk so as to free up disk space. It is better not to do that because it can decrease hard disk performance.
As a coin has two sides, though Windows-based systems are able to provide the service of running multiple tasks simultaneously, you have to tolerate the shortcoming of Windows operating system that is to manage files unclearly. Even sometimes you do not know whether this file is useful for computer or not. As time goes by, more and more files are increasing in the Windows directory, plus those swap and temporary files. They are consuming a lot of available disk space. When the available disk space is too little, there may be not enough space to support temporary and swap files which can slow down system running efficiency definitely.
More important, since you have restored and deleted much software frequently, it makes those available disk space fragmented. In this way, system has to spend more time in moving disk head when restoring and reading certain file. See, this is another cause of slow computer speed. In order to fix low disk space problem, you need to free up more space by deleting junks files such as temporary and swaps files in the C drive or on the Internet. And you can try to defragment disk by running defragmenting program of Windows or other third-party tools like “Advanced Defrag”.
And, if your computer is not updated enough for supporting SP3 or SP4 but definite too many partitions, it also drags the startup computer system. Therefore, it is advisable for you not to set too many partitions if your computer have not prepared very well for that. This is because Windows has to load every partition when starting up. As the partitions are becoming more and more, it also has to spend more and more time to operate them. So, you should not take the risk to set too many partitions which have little use but slow computer speed.
In order to increase Windows speed it is necessary for you to keep hard diskrunning normally. If not, it is vulnerable of slow speed. In this regard, you need to spare no effort to protect your hard disk.
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.
Low disk space? — How do you get more disk space
Nov 19th
Have you ever got a message stating that “Low Disk Space” when booting up the computer? Do you know what it is used for and how to get more disk space when receiving this notification? If not, you are at the right place here.
First of all, it is necessary to know how it comes. As what it is called, the “Low Disk Space” warming is used to remind users when the disk space is going to run out, which is especially useful for main system driver to prevent the loss of important data. This warming will pop up at starting up the computer when there is less than 200 MB free available space; every four hours when less than 80MB, and every five minutes when less than 50 MB. It won’t automatically disappear until the problem is solved.
Simply, this “Slow Disk Space” warming is very useful to remind users in protecting the data, but it will become nasty when too often, reducing working efficiency and worsening computer performance. So you can follow the steps below to stop it to prevent it from popping up time to time: Go to Start-> Run -> type “Regedit” to open Registry Editor and then locate the below entry: HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> check whether there is an entry named “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” within the right-hand pane. If it is here, please go to check whether its value data is set to “1” (one) or not (set it to 1 if it isn’t). But if there is no entry named “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” here, go to create one and set its value data to 1(one). Please first back up your registry before the modification if you are not very professional on computers to prevent a mess of the Windows registry.
After rebooting your computer, the annoying “Low Disk Space” won’t pop up again and again. But that can not help fix the problem essentially. What you need to do right now is to learn how to get more disk space for your computer with the tips in this article in order to store what you want.
To get more disk space, first you have to uninstall some useless programs for they will only waste hard disk space without any meaningful significance. To thoroughly uninstall the programs both from the folder and the registry, please do not directly delete folders from the hard disk, but follow the below steps instead: go to Start, Control Panel and then Add/Remove Programs, locate the programs to be uninstalled in the list and then click Remove to uninstall them from the computer.
Besides, please note that a cleanup of the system junk files plays very important role in getting more disk space. So please remember to simply run the built-in Disk Cleanup when trying to release more hard disk space. Besides the above two main methods, you can also use some other methods like moving some particular directories to other drives. If you want more detailed information, you can simply go here to always have a colorful computer life.
But to have a smooth computer life, please do not forget to defragment your computer periodically for when locating programs /files on the computer, some fragments will come inevitably. The more fragments on the hard disk, the slower the computer will be when running. A disk defragmentation will help to easily gather all parts of the same file to locate at a single place coherently. Hence, it will reduce the disk visiting time, speeding up the computer.
At the end, you must know that a disk defragmentation is necessary to maintain hard disks even though you have managed to get more hard disk space in order to make the computer always run at the top space. Tired of the sluggish built-in Disk Defragmenter? Go to try Advanced Defrag. Believe me, it will help you speedily defragment the computer in a few minutes.
Disk Defragment—Useful Tips for You about Defragmentation
Nov 16th
Disks serve as storage for your computer. It restores all the files of computer and the system can read and write them from the disks in return. And every time when the disks are going to be occupied excessively, the computer will remind you kind-hearted that disk space is low.
However, such notification can be annoying sometimes, since the always popping up prompt may disturb you a lot. The less disk space is, the more notifications are. Therefore, you can take some measures to forbid system reminding you disturbingly.
It is no doubt that if you have put a large number of files in the disk and there is less and less space in it, the computer will remind you tirelessly and you have to bear it patiently. Well, here is a method to help you forbid such notification.
That is you can close down such notification by revising registry.
First of all, click “Start”—“Run”, type “regedit” in the dialog box and then click “OK”. In the “Registry Editor”, find the entry of “HKEY CURRENT USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer” in the left column, and find the key value of “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” in the right.
If this exists, you can change the value from 0 to 1, since “0” is the default value. Double-click the key and change it in the “Edit String” dialog box.
But if there is no such value, you can add a new one by choosing “New/ DWORD Value” in the Edit menu and type “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” in it and then press “Enter”. You should make sure that there is not any blank among all the words. This should be a long variable name. Then, double-click the new key and also revise the value into “1”. At last, click “OK”, exit “Registry Editor” and restart your computer. You may find that the disturbing notification has disappeared completely.
Since you have closed down the low disk space notification, it is a must for you to defragment disk regularly in order to free up disk space. No matter you prohibit such notification or not, the disk fragments can not disappear automatically. Therefore, if you want to keep your computer in a good state, you should remove disk fragments on time.
Although you have shut down the low disk space notification, it does not mean that you can turn a cold shoulder to it. Disk fragments can takes up the space gradually. If you do not pay enough attention to them, the excessive fragments can hinder your computer speed and system performance.
Disks, the storage of computer, can be overstaffed by files and junk ones especially. If you have check the disks regularly, you may find that there are too many files in the disks, use or useless. As a matter of fact, you can delete some of them to free up disk because those are junk files. And such files include the temporary and some backup ones. Therefore, you can delete them in the folders named “Cookies”, “Temp”, “Temporary Internet Files”, and “History” in the “c:\Documents and Settings\Username” and “Temp”, “ServicePackFiles” and “Driver Cache” in the “c:\WINDOWS.
After getting rid of those files, the next step is to defragment disk. In order to save your time and energy, it is wise for you to use a more professional tool than the disk defragmenter of Windows. You canclick here to find such useful defrag.
Disk Space—Useful Knowledge about Disk Space
Nov 11th
Are you always annoyed by the popping up prompts of “Low Disk Space”? Even though your computer still can run smoothly, the system is reminding that untiringly. Are you tired of it?
Before taking any action to solve this problem, you should know why Windows system is designed to remind you that disk space is low.
In the Windows system, Microsoft tries to add various prompt in hope that can prevent users from being annoyed. The “Low Disk Space Notification” is one of them. Useful as it is, it is really disturbing in most cases.
First of all, let us see why you are prompted by that.
As its name suggests, “Low Disk Space Notification” is to remind users when the disk space is going to run out. As for the main system drivers, it is especially important to protect system from losing data because of overstaffing disk space. If this happens during the main system drivers working, it can result in overwhelming system swap files. At the same time, the system can not install or exit programs normally. What is worse, the running out disk space can lead to system freezing up and data loss.
Since free disk space is reducing day after day, Windows may remind you more and more frequently. When available disk space is less than 200MB, Windows remind you every time when you start computer and once four hours on condition that it is less than 80MB till your available space is over that. More terrible, you have to bear the interference once five minute when the space is below 50MB.
You may not know that too much low disk space notification can reduce working efficiency and worsen computer performance, because the system have to spend more time in detecting free disk space which should be supposed to complete other tasks.
Although “Low Disk Space Notification” is designed to remind users with goodwill, it is annoying if it pops up too often. Sometimes your computer is still running very well, but it reminds you that the disk space is low which really interfere in using the computer.
On the other hand, if the computer is running out of space, it is useful for you to take some actions to solve it. Just as I mentioned above, since there is not enough space to support the running of computer, its performance can reduce without question. So, how to free up disk space?
Besides clearing up junk files, do not forget to defragment disk completely. Too much fragments scattered in the disk can hold back computer to run fast as before. And, defragmenting program can gather them together and arrange again so as to free up space in the disk. This is a good method to free up disk without changing any data in the computer. For more information, click here