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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.
Improve Computer Performance—the Methods to Optimize Windows Performance
Dec 4th
Have you been troubled with that computer performance is declining day after day? Though you have used software to check it, computer shows that there is no virus. What is the matter? In fact, since computer has been serving for you for a period of time, there are many junks piling in the computer but you just have not realized yet.
Do not worry about that. Many causes that lead to this problem can be find in this article. What you need to do is to read it patiently and follow the steps so as to optimize Windows performance.
There is a large number of swap files in the hard disk which is prepared for putting virtual memory and many applications may often use them. In this way, system has to read the major storage at every turn. Its speed is the main cause that has influence on computer running speed. Normally, Windows system can manage virtual memory automatically according to different requirement of various applications. However, such variable changes can add excessive burden to system and reduce its working speed. As a result, you had better set the maximum and minimum values of virtual memory so as to avoid altering that too often.
As for how to do that, you can right-click “My Computer” and click “Properties”. And in the “Advanced” tab, choose “Performance” dialog box and then set “Virtual Memory”. By doing this, you can improve computer performance by limiting virtual memory correctly.
Then you should check applications and drive programs. Some programs may slow down system speed when computer starts up. If you want to check the problems in this regard, you can start your computer under “Safe Mode”. Because it is the original starting method, it should be slower than normal ways. Actually, the safe mode booting way does not have to load too many applications and drives as normal one does. But if you find it is faster rather than slower, it is probably that certain program in the system goes awry so that computer booting is so tardy. So, you need to check them in order to improve computer performance.
What is more, excessive desktop icons can reduce computer performance as well. Every time when Windows startup and display desktop, it has to find and load desktop shortcuts one by one. The more shortcuts are there, the more time are needed. Meanwhile, some anti-virus software has the function to scan system which also wastes much time. As a matter of fact, if you have opened real-time monitor function of certain software, it seems redundant to scan system when booting. You can shut down this scanning function but should be on condition that you have opened real-time monitor. And, it is suggested that you can put the seldom used icons to a specific folder or delete them without further ado.
Now, are there problems in your computer in accord with one or more descriptions in this article? If so, you should take some measures to improve computer performance; if not, you also ought to prevent those problems so as to optimize Windows performance.
Disk Defragment—Main Causes of Disk Fragments
Nov 18th
Even there is not any virus in your computer, it still cannot work fast as before, why? If you are an experienced computer user, it does not seem difficult for you, because you can defragment disks when the computer is becoming slow. It is really a good method to optimize computer performance.
Well in this article, I will tell you the main causes of disk fragments in a hope that it can help you prevent the disk fragments in advance.
The major cause should be blamed for the virtual memory programs. If there is not enough physical memory to run the application, the operating system can produce temporary swap files in the hard disks. Such file virtualizes the hard disk space as memory so its program can do massive read-write operations to the disk and create fragments. At the same time, during operating the files such as moving or deleting, Windows system may apply virtual memory to manage applications synchronically which may lead to the frequent read-write operations of every program to hard disks. This is another main resource of disk fragments.
What is more, if any sector is removed and then the system reads a new and smaller file into it, there may be some empty space beside this file. And if the system continues to write more files into this disk, the space between those two files can not put any new one any more. That is to say, the file has to be divided into several parts in order to put in the disk. See, file fragments are produces again.
If you are a movie fan and like to download from Internet, you have to pay close attention to the disk fragment problem. Once you are doing other operations during the downloading process, the film files are forced to separate into certain fragments and restore in the disk. So, downloading is one of the main causes of disk fragments. Besides, if file space is not large enough to support the frequent deleting and adding files operations, it can bring about a huge number of disk fragments as well. Such problem can go from bad to worse on the condition that you do that hourly.
Generally speaking, sometimes you may not be aware that when browsing websites or playing games, it can produce a mass of temporary files in the computer. Or when downloading video in your hard disks, it is easy to produce a lot of disk fragments. If you find computer performance is not so good as before, I suggest you to defragment disk firstly.
When performing defragmentation, please close down screen saver and do not do anything else in the computer such as listening music or playing game but just let defragmenting program run by itself. By doing this, you can not only speed up defragmenting speed but also prevent the program from starting again and again.
In order to facilitate the speed of defragmentation, you can also use certain defrag to help you. By using it, you can also protect your computer from any unexpected accidents during defragmentation.