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Speed up Computer—Tips for You to Speed up Computer
Dec 22nd
After using computer for a period of time, the starting up speed of system may become slower and slower because of frequent installing new programs. The sluggish computer speed is probably caused by too many loaded programs. As a result, you can clear up programs in the startup group so as to speed up system. This is what I want to share with you in this article.
First of all, you can delete the unnecessary loading orders in the “config.sys” and “autoexec.bat”. Normally, all the orders in these two folders can be removed for sure. You can click “Start” > “Run” and type “MSCONFIG”. In the popping up windows of “System Configuration Utility”, you feel free to cross out the ticks of “config.sys” and “autoexec.bat”. After doing that, you may find it is faster to start up computer without those useless files.
Second, delete the shortcuts in the starting up group. Some software can add starting programs to starting up group automatically. If such programs are piling up excessively in this group, it is no doubt that it can slow down system starting up speed. Therefore, you can get rid of certain programs so as to improve computer booting speed.
Right-click “Start” menu and choose “Open”—“Programs”—“Startup”. In this folder, you can delete all the shortcut icons because they are quite unnecessary for computer but just slow down starting up speed.
Third, uninstall resident programs in the system. Some programs can start up as system is booting, but their shortcuts do not display in the “Start”—“All Programs”—“Startup” menu. So, you can delete these programs. In the “System Configuration Utility”, you click “Startup” tab, you can choose the resident programs that you do not use frequently and delete them. By crossing out these programs, you can speed up computer obviously.
What is more, you can finish all of the operations mentioned above by using certain orders so as to optimize starting groups quickly. However, in the Windows 2000, there is no such function. If you want to do optimization, the only thing you can do is to alter registry. Is it disturbing? As a matter of fact, you can copy this program to system folder of Windows 2000. And you can just run it.
In conclusion, slow computer speed is really troublesome, you should try every method to speed up computer.
Speed up Windows—the Useful Methods to Speed up Windows
Dec 11th
When using Windows XP system, you may find the system is running slower and slower as the passing of time. It is right that you can reinstall system. But you have to take one thing into consideration that you have to reinstall many applications as well. It is rather disturbing. So how do you speed up Windows on condition that you do not have to reinstall system? You can find the answers in this article.
Let Windows XP close down within one second. Windows system is too bulky to close down efficiently. You have to spend thirty to fifty seconds to do that completely. But you can speed up your Windows by changing some items in the registry.
Find “HKEY/CURRENT USER/Control Panel/Desktop and modify the value of “Wait To Kill App Timeout” as 1000 which means it just need one second to close down programs.
Change “Hung App Timeout” as 200, it takes half of second to wait for error programs.
Change the value of “Auto End Tasks” as 1 so that system can close down the stopped responding programs automatically.
Close down stopping responding programs automatically. Sometimes, Windows may remind you that certain program is stopping responding. It is really disturbing. As a matter of fact, you can let it turn off automatically by altering registry. You can click “Start” > “Run” and type “regedit” so as to enter into “Registry Editor” and then click “HKEY /CURRENT USER/Control Panel/Desktop” orderly. You can change the numerical value of “Auto End Tasks” as “1” and click “OK” then restart computer.
Sector is the basic unit in the computer hard disk. A file usually takes up certain sectors. As you use hard disk for a long time such as adding, changing and deleting files, it is unavoidable to create a lot of discontinuous sectors so that disk head has to spend more time in reading and writing the data. This can lead to slow computer. That is why you need to defragment disk regularly. You ought to perform defragmenting program to rearrange those discontinuous files in order so as to optimize Windows. It is better for you to do that based on the usage of hard disk in your computer.
At the same time, you can reduce the loading items when starting computer. Many applications add system startup group forcibly when you install them in the computer. Therefore, every time the computer starts up, they may run automatically. It can not only delay starting time but also take up a lot of system resource. It is advisable for you to reduce such items in order to speed up computer.
By doing the methods, you can speed up Windows without question. Since slow computer is really a head ache for all the users, you have to be very careful in daily operation.
Speed up Computer—the Specific Methods to Speed up Computer Efficiently
Dec 10th
When talking about how to speed up computer, most users may think about using anti-virus software firstly. If there is no any virus in the computer, what will you do to speed up computer? Well, this is what I want to tell you in this article that you can turn to some specific methods to solve slow computer problems.
Although your computer is still working well, it is worthwhile for you reading this article, because there are many ways to speed up computer that you may not know before.
You can forbid the idle IDE channels. Right-click “My Computer” and choose “Properties”—“Hardware”—“Device Manager”, and open “IDE ATA/PATA controllers”. Then you can enter into primary IDE channel and secondary IDE channel respectively. In the “Advanced Settings” tab, you can choose “Not Applicable” in the “Current Transfer Mode”. This method may seem rather professional for you, but you can learn that it is also a way to speed up computer.
In “My Computer”—“Properties”—“Advanced”, click “Settings” in the “Startup and Recovery” and cross out “Write an event to the system log”, “Send an administrative alert” and “Automatically restart” and set “none” in the “Write debugging information”. It is wise for you to disable error reporting. As for “Error Reporting”, in “My Computer”—“Properties”—“Advanced”, click “Error reporting” to choose “Disable error reporting” and tick “But notify me when critical errors occur” and then click “OK”. By forbidding these functions, it is also helpful for you to improve computer speed.
Close down “Automatic Updates” function. In the “My Computer”—“Properties”—“Automatic Updates”, you can choose “Turn off Automatic Updates” so that you can update computer manually. And you can turn off “Remote Desktop”. Right-click “My Computer” and click “Properties”—“Remote”. In this tab, you can cross out “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer”.
And then you can optimize visual effects. Right-click “My Computer” and choose “Properties”—“Advanced”. In the “Performance” column, click “Settings”—“Visual Effects” and adjust it as best performance or just keep some necessary items.
Besides that, close down the function of “Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server”. Click “Start”—“Control Panel”—“Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options”—“Date and Time”. In the “Internet Time” tab, you can cancel “Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server”. Or you are supposed to forbid using excessive serving components. Right-click “My Computer”—“Manage”—“Services and Applications”, in the right windows, you can set the unnecessary service as disable or manual.
All the methods mentioned above can speed up computer though you have not heard of some of them. If you are not quite sure about the methods, it is advisable for you to remember all the changes you have done in case of any accident. By doing this, you can solve slow computer speed and protect computer as well.
Slow computer? Find how to increase computer speed here
Dec 2nd
Are you annoyed with the slow computer which acts sluggishly? And have you ever wondered on “How to increase my computer speed”? Well, here I will show you some methods on how to increase computer speed.
First of all, it is necessary to bear in mind that a number of causes will result in a slow computer with time for there must be lots of installed programs which interferes the computer speed. When I felt that my computer was lagging slightly, I tried the several ways here and found that they seemed to give my computer a little boost and remarkably increase my computer speed.
They are very easy to follow as what you can see below.
1) Scan your computer for Spyware
As we download or browse the net, there must be spyware and adware coming onto the computer. When running the computer, lots of system resources will be taken up, which usually becomes one main offender for a slow computer. So it is recommended to install a correct anti-spyware program on your computer to protect your PC and increase computer speed.
2) Check your PC for viruses
In my daily life, I have seen that lots of computers are greatly running slow due to lack of anti-virus program. Once a computer is infected by viruses, it can not escape to be a slow computer. So an anti-virus program (or good anti-virus program) is needed in order to fix a slow computer.
3) Clear up Windows registry
There must be some registry entries generated or left over after browsing the website or uninstalling programs from the computer. So we can say that Windows registry happens every time we use the computer. The more useless registry entries on the computer, the slower it will be. So a regular cleanup of the Windows registry is needed.
4) Use a disk defragmenter
When there are too many fragments on the computer, longer time will be consumed when trying to input or output a specific file. If the file is needed frequently, the computer will become completely slow. So a disk defragmentation is also needed in order to put all parts of the same content in a single place. The packaged Disk Defragmenter is located at All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tool, which brought quick result in speeding up my computer.
5) Delete unnecessary files and programs
It is highly recommended that you should delete the unnecessary files and programs this is because by freeing up the hard disk space, you will get an increase in computer speed. But please note that when uninstalling programs, it is not allowed to directly delete their folders under C drive. You should go to Start -> All Programs -> Control Panel -> Add / Remove Programs to thoroughly uninstall the program both from the files and the Windows registry.
With the above five steps, rather easy steps, I was able to increase my computer speed. If you want to fix your slow computer, please do not forget to insist on taking the above steps, especially the disk defragmentation. Then you will see an increase on your computer speed, hopefully it will be as fast as brand-new.
Speed up Computer—How to Free up Disk Space
Nov 17th
If you have been using computer for a long time, it is inevitable that your computer is running not so fast as before. Since a large number of reasons can result in slow computer speed, you have to take different methods to solve them one by one. Here, I would like to share some helpful ways to speed up computer by freeing up disk space.
When the computer has been working for a period of time, there are a lot of junks piling in it which are produced by surfing on the Internet, reading or writing data, deleting or removing files and so forth. If you continue to turn a blind eye to it, it is no doubt that you have to suffer slow computer performance. In this regard, you should know how to get rid of those junks in order to optimize computer performance.
First, you should delete junk and temporary files without hesitation. Such ones occupy a lot of space and do nothing good to computer. So, removing them can help you free up disk space. Here are some tips for you to do that manually.
You can delete many useless files such as those system and driver backup ones. Or if you have updated or patched computer, you may find there are many files like “Nt Uninstall” under the “C: /WINDOWS” directory. You feel easy to remove all of them. Besides, you can move certain files out of the systematic disks so as to leave more space for the disk to run program more quickly.
Since you have removed the junks files of computer, the next step is to clear up fragments in the disk. Such fragments are so invisible that you can not delete them by removing certain files. That is to say, you have to use a professional program to do that for you. You can use the defragmenting program of Windows in the “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. You should scan the disk first and then perform disk defragmentation
As for scanning disk, it is a necessary step for the computer, since the program needs to gather the specific data to defragment disk. You can choose “Disk Cleanup” in the “System Tools” to scan the disk. It comes to defragmentation next. You can choose “Disk Defragmenter” in the “System Tools” as well. And then all you have to do is to wait for the defragmenting program complete the task. If you are not so busy, it is OK for you to use this program. But if not, I think you should think carefully whether to use it or not, because such Windows program is really time-consuming.
In order to speed up defragmentation, I think you to use third-party tools, since they are the experts in this regard. But among the market that good and bad mix together, you should be more cautious to choose defrag. Therefore, according to my experience, I recommend you to use a program named “Advanced Defrag” which stands out of its kinds. You can not miss such helpful tool.
Windows system maintenance — 4 tips to maintain computer skillfully
Nov 13th
When finding some solutions from the Internet, we will get many ways to maintain windows system. But here, some very simple ways will tell you how to maintain your computer to get faster computer speed in daily life.
1) Regularly defragment the computer
We all know that a fragmented hard disk will significantly make a computer sluggish for it always takes very longer time to reassemble all parts of the same files locate at a single place of the hard disk. So a regular disk defragmentation is needed in order to make the computer always work at peak performance. To accomplish it, you can go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tool -> Disk Defragmenter to begin the defragment process. If there are many hard disks, please defragment them one by one. But to enjoy faster defragment process, it is recommended that you can rely on a professional defrag program such as Advanced Defrag to defragment your computer.
2) Periodically clean up the registry
Some invalid registries will be left in the PC registry after surfing the Internet or uninstalling some files from the computer bloated day by day. Sometime, these entries will cause a computer slowdown, freezing-up or crashes. So if time permits, please clean up the registry in a regular basic to maintain the windows system. Effortlessly, you can get access to kinds of registry cleaners from the net, with which you can effectively manage the PC registry. But please remember to first back up the registry before every cleanup.
3) Be careful with the programs on your computer
When installing programs on your computer, it is recommended that you can first search the Internet to see whether it is a malware or not. Also, when finding a program is not necessary, remember to uninstall it from the computer in time.
4) Always update your anti-virus/spyware programs.
As we all know that virus will always create garbage in the PC registry, automatically load some unnecessary services and things that will reduce the PC performance. So it is necessary to always update the anti-virus installed on your computer to make sure that you are always using the latest virus database.
With the simple details above, you can easily maintain windows system and speed up the computer all the time. But here, I just want to emphasize one aspect that always be neglected by lot of PC users — disk defragmentation. Some think that it is a waste of time for it always consumes very long time to go through the defragment process. But please bear in mind that a simple disk defragmentation will help us to rearrange the files locating on the hard disk, making them always stay close and coherently. Hence, it will greatly improve the disk visiting time, and then speed up the computer.
So in order to always enjoy faster computer speed, please do not belittle the importance of a defragmentation, which helps greatly improve windows system performance. Also, with the good habits above, you can not only easily maintain your PC performance, but also extent the lifespan of the whole computer.
Disk Defragmentation—Useful Method to Defragment Smoothly
Nov 11th
Disk defragmentation is not novelty for most users. Since it is really a good way to speed up computer and optimize system performance, many prefer to defragment disk when computer runs slow. However, it is unavoidable to face certain problems.
Therefore, I will tell you a useful method to defragment disk smoothly in this article. I am sure you can learn a lot from it.
You should make sure that you have turned off monitor power and screen saver. But it still can not continue to defragment disks, why?
It is likely that there are some applications running in the background of the computer. Or, certain program needs to write into hard disk. All of these can obstruct defragmentation from working. But For common users, it is rather difficult to find the causes. If such problem is taking place when disk is defragmenting every time, you should not let Windows load any programs and do that after defragmentation.
You can click “Start”—“Run”, type “msconfig” and enter in “System Configuration Utility”. In the “General” tab, do not tick anything except “Selective Startup”, and click “OK”. Then restart your computer. The computer can defragment under the clearest environment.
After defragmentation, you can return to the “System Configuration Utility” to set “Normal Startup” and restart your computer and then it can get back to the previous normal state.
By doing this, you can defragment disk smoothly. In fact, you just suspend all the automatically-loading programs so as to minimize the influence on defragmenting disks. You have to bear in mind that after defragmentation, it is a must to return “”, otherwise a large number of drive program can not be loaded and a lot of software and facilities can not work.
If time permits, no matter you are a newbie or veteran, it is a good idea to defragment disk manually. By doing this, you can learn a lot of computer knowledge for sure. However, in such fast-pace world, I do not think all the users can spare enough time to do and learn. Is there any tool can give you a hand?
Of course, there is. If such tool can not only help you defragment disk efficiently and completely but also tell you useful knowledge about defragmentation, would you want to have a try? Here, I recommend you to use a specific defrag by clicking here. You can download it from it official website and can get a general understanding of defragmentation from it. The most important is you are welcome to have this defrag free for seven days. Do you think that it is a good choice for you and your computer?
Disk Defragment—How to Improve Defragmentation Speed
Nov 10th
It is nothing new that defragment disk can speed up computer. I am sure that most users must have tried to do that by using the Windows defragmenting program. At the same time, most of them may be annoyed by this slow and sluggish program. Well, you can learn some method to get rid of this trouble by reading this article.
In the Windows system, there is a series of programs for optimizing computer performance such as maintaining wizard, FAT32 and defragmenting disk. Among them, disk defragmentation should be the easiest way. It can rearrange the files and untapped spaces in the disk, optimize loading programs and improve your computer running and visiting files speed. However, every time performing defragmentation, you have to bear the laggard process.
In the first place, you should close down all the running programs. When defragmenting disks, computer is supposed to perform other operations theoretically. But under such circumstance, the computer may run rather slow and take longer time to defragment disk. What is more, if there is any operation written into the disk, the defragmentation has to start again and again. Therefore, you had better exit the other programs to guarantee the process smoothly and completely.
Then, you can defragment disk in the “Safe Mode”. Since you start computer in the normally condition, Windows system will load some starting programs automatically and such programs may do read-write operations to the disk which can reduce the speed of defragmentation. If so, you ought to restart Windows and press “Ctrl” key till you enter the Windows startup menu, choose “Safe Mode” and then press “Enter”. In this mode, Windows uses default settings which means it just need to start a minimum number of driver programs instead of any other automatically-running ones. That is to say, the whole disk defragmentation can be less interfered in such rather clear environment. But, you have to remember that it is impossible to visit CD-ROM driver, printer and other facilities in the “Safe Mode”.
Well, since you have followed the steps mentioned above, you can speed up your disk defragmenter of Windows, but only the speed of this program. To be honest, no matter how fast it can adjust, such program is really slow and time-consuming and can not guarantee to get rid of the fragments thoroughly such as the system restored junk files. It is unworthy that you have waited for such a long time but the result is not complete defragmentation. What a pity!
So, if you want to do that perfectly, I really recommend you to use third-party tools, because they are designed to solve defragmenting problems specifically. Among various defrags in the market, how to choose a best defrag? In my opinion, I think you should take many factors into consideration. For example, does this tool cover all the defragmenting areas? You may not know that fragments do not only be produced in the disk but in the registry as well. That is to say, a good defrag should be able to remove these fragments completely.
Here, I suggest you to choose a perfect defrag which stands out of its kinds. This tool embraces all the advantages I have mentioned, so I think you are worthy to have a try by clicking here.
Speed up computer— How to effectively speed up your windows XP computer
Nov 8th
Currently, Windows XP has been the mainstream operating system. But no matter how wonderful your hardware configuration is, you will find that your computer is gradually running slower then even before. Upon this, it is necessary for you to master some skills on how to effectively speed up your windows XP. Generally speaking, we can effort from two sides below in our daily life to speed up the XP computer: speed up startup and shutdown time.
Speed up computer at startup. The effectively way to speed up the computer at startup is to disable some entries which do not need to automatically load at windows startup. To disable some unnecessary services, you can simply follow: go to Start -> Run -> type “services.msc” to access that service page. Here, you can select the programs that do not need to automatically run when booting up the computer. But, please note that it is not recommended to disable the anti-virus program because of the real-time safeguard to the computer. Another way is to modify the registry to reduce the pre-reading, thus will reduce the waiting time of the progress bar, making it only run a lap on the progress bar and then into the login screen. You can go to Start → Run → type regedit to open Registry Editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters. Here, please select the key EnablePrefetcher and then change its value to “1″.
Speed up computer at shutdown. Normally, it will take more time to shut down the computer, especially when there are some tasks needs to be manually turned off, which will delay the shutdown time. So in order to speed up the shutdown speed, first it is necessary to turn on the windows XP Auto EndTasks function: go to Start → Run → type regedit to open Registry Editor, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, and change the value of AutoEndTaks to “1”, the value of HungAppTimeout to “4000” or less 4000. Last, please go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\, change the value of the WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 4000. After the above settings, it will become relatively faster when shutting up the computer, significantly speed up computer.
Moreover, to speed up your windows XP computer, a lose weight of the computer is necessary. For more detailed information, you can visit here for more helpful tips. With the above methods above, I believe you can greatly speed up your computer, making it always run at maximum performance.
By the way, as we all know that no matter in which way the computer is running, there will be inevitably some fragments occur. The more fragmented the computer is, the more time it will take when running the computer/programs or taking other actions on the computer. So a very simplest way to speed up your windows XP is to regularly run a disk defragmentation by going to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools and then Disk Defragmenter to select the drives to begin the defragment process, making the same/similar files always locate at a single directory of the hard disk, reducing the accessing time and then speeding up the computer.
But here, to speed up your computer by a disk defragmentation, I recommend you to use Advanced Defrag because of its advanced defragment technology and algorithm, compared with the stubborn Microsoft Windows defragmenter. Believe me, it will return you a faster Windows XP computer which runs like new.
Trying to fix your slower computer? Defragment it easily with Advanced Defrag to speed it up
Nov 8th
No matter what the computer is used for, as times by, it will become slower and slower because of the disk (file) fragments. So a disk defragmentation is needed in order to always speed up the computer.
Normally, we can easily defragment the computer with windows built-in disk defragmenter by simply right click the disk to be defragmented to select Properties, and then click Defragment to begin the defragment process. But in many cases, it will take some time to finish the whole process based on the stored files and the capacity of the hard disk, normally, it takes around an hour or more to defragment a disk which is only 1 GB, needless to say one is as large as 300 GB. That is why defrag program are popular with lots of computer users nowadays.
Compared with windows built-in defragmenter, defrag programs are designed to provide users very advanced defragment technology, which ensures a complete and faster analysis of fragments found on the hard disk and then quickly reassemble the files into a complete (stay close together and contiguously), so as to greatly optimize PC performance and speed up the computer. When having problems in defragmenting my slower computer, I went to try a program named Advanced Defrag because of the recommendation of my friend, and found that it was really useful in defragmenting computer and fixing slower computer.
First of all, let us have a glance at why I love this program so much：
1) Speedily defragment the hard disk. Within this defrag program, we are provided very advanced defragment algorithm so it takes only a few minutes to analyze the fragmentation on the hard disk, and completely defragment the computer within only several minute. Normally, it won’t take more than 15 minutes to defragment any volume.
2) Completely defragment the PC registry. Superior to other defrag programs, this program provides us a choice to defragment the PC registry. Normally, after selecting the registry volume and the a click on the Analyze or Defragment will help to begin the defragment process on the PC registry, which will not only make the registry compact all the time, but always remove some invalid or useless registry entries, preventing the computer from slowing down, freezing or crashing.
3) Real-time defragment feature. With this function, we can set it to automatically defragment the computer in a specific time, for example, the break time. Hence, after a relaxing break, you can always work with a complete clean and faster computer, which will greatly increase your working efficiency and let you enjoy every day with the computer.
4) Clearly detailed- web analysis report. Compared with the fuzzy report of windows built-in defragmenter, this defrag program provides very detailed report after we click Analyze button, which show where the fragments locates on the computer, and the percentage of fragments and advice where to defragment the computer or not. Moreover, after defragmenting the computer by clicking “Defragment” button, we will also receive a report telling us the fragments before and after the defragment process, letting us defragment clearly and smartly.
5) Very easy- to- use user interface. The pie-chart design and the big buttons on its main interface make everything simple and straightforward. As long as you can use computer, you can handle with this defragment program easily.
In sum, with the help of this program, I was able to fix my slower computer effectively and enjoy every day with the computer. If you are annoyed with your slower computer right know, please go to defragment it easily with Advanced Defrag. It will help you speed up the computer quickly.