How to make a Personal Computer faster: We have 5 ways to speed up your Computer System.
You can follow simple steps given in this article, and make your Computer using experience smooth and less frustrating. The article discusses how to use the tools already available in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.
1. Partitioning the Disk
At the starting of the discussion, if you have not loaded the operating system. You should be very careful while partitioning your hard drive, as you can easly organize it into different parts and make your file storing experience very systematic. This would lead to making a separate drive for storing your operating system, and all the programs to be installed inside it. Movies, Music, and other files could be stored inside another partion of the drive, keeping away the malious softwares and viruses from the operating system.
2. Remove spyware, and Help protect your computer from viruses
Spyware are softwares that collects personal information without letting you know and without asking for permission. Your confidential information is at risk if any spyware enters your system. In addition to privacy concerns, spyware can hamper your computer's performance. To combat spyware, you might want to consider using the PC safety scan from Windows Live OneCare. This scan is a free service that helps check for and remove viruses. Also many free spyware softwares are available on internet, which are downloadable to scan your computer.
You can download Microsoft Security Essentials for free to help guard your system in the future from viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious software (also known as malware). AVG Free Antivirus Software and Avast Internet Security are certain other softwares which prevent your computer from accessing spyware.
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is another utility that checks computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software, including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom, and helps remove any infection found.
3. Disk Cleanup
The Disk Cleanup is a useful tool which helps you to free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
Use Disk Cleanup to:
- Remove temporary Internet files.
- Empty’s Recycle Bin.
- Remove Temporary files.
- Delete unsed icons, and shortcuts
- Delete installed programs that you no longer use.
- Remove unused restore points and shadow copies from System Restore.
Disk Defragmenter inside the Windows utility is another such software which can be used to speed up your PC operations.When files are defragmented, the computer must search the hard disk as a file is opened, which considerably reduces response time of the system.
4. Detect and repair disk errors
In addition to running Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter to optimize the performance of your computer, you can check the integrity of the files stored on your hard disk by running the Error Checking utility.
As you use your hard drive, it can develop bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk performance and sometimes make data writing (such as file saving) difficult or even impossible. The Error Checking utility scans the hard drive for bad sectors and scans for file system errors to see whether certain files or folders are misplaced.
If you use your computer daily, you should run this utility once in a week to help prevent data loss.
5. Learn about ReadyBoost
If you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can use ReadyBoost to speed up your system. A new concept in adding memory to a system, it allows you to use non-volatile flash memory—like a USB flash drive or a memory card—to improve performance without having to add additional memory.
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