Boost Up Your Computer Performance

Feb 4
09:18

2011

Aleksandar Mitic

Aleksandar Mitic

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Can you remember how your computer worked just after you have purchased it? Do you want to make it work like that again?

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Does it take a while to shut down and boot up? Is your computer sluggish? What about freeze-ups? Does it take a while to open any program? If you answer any of these questions with "yes",Boost Up Your Computer Performance Articles then it’s time to think about why does this happen and what can you do about it. Time and performance is everything. It’s all about resource consumption. If managed well, your computer is going to be faster. A lot faster.

But first we need to identify the problems. Maybe you are wondering if your hard disk drive is damaged? Or maybe your random access memory (RAM) needs an upgrade? Maybe you need more virtual random access memory (VRAM)? Before you start asking your self these questions, let's think about what can we do right now, while not spending a single dime on upgrades or technicians. Chances are your hardware is just fine, otherwise it's likely that you wouldn't read this right now. However you still experience problems we described above, so it's probably something else, something that has to do with your system configuration and maintenance. In that case we can fix it right now, without a technician, without opening our wallets, just few clicks away.

Your operating system comes with Microsoft Support Services and their job is to help you manage your system recourses by providing services such as disk check, cleanup and defragmentation.

As time goes by, some files become unnecessary but they still occupy your hard disk drive and your system. It makes your system sluggish and slow while booting and running. You have to remove these files from your system periodically. The good news is that you don't have to know how to do it manually because as we said, your system comes with applications that do exactly what you need to be done. Let's review some of them:

1. Disc Cleanup

A service that cleans up your hard disk drive and memory from all unnecessary files. Improves overall performance and frees up disk space by deleting temporary error reporting files, temporary internet files, recycle bin, office setup files, web client temporary files, remote desktop files, old compressed files and many more different types of virtual garbage you absolutely don't need anymore.

Perform disk clean up by clicking on your start menu, select "all programs", "accessories", "system tools", "disk cleanup".

2. Defragmentation.

Another useful utility that boosts your overall computer performance by re-arranging files on your hard disk drive is a defragmenter program. Files are constantly being modified, written, deleted and re-sized on your hard disk drive. Information is written on different sectors, so as time goes by it becomes slower to find, read, and modify existing files. Defragmentation utility solves this problem by re-arranging them together and making them more accessible thus your computer requires less time and resources while operating with them.

Perform disk defragmentation by clicking on your start menu, select "all programs", "accessories", "system tools", "disk defragmenter".

3. Start up programs.

If you have a nice amount of third party applications installed on your computer, you might consider reviewing your start up boot sequence. Some of them you probably don't need while you boot up your system, so why let them consume your resources?

To perform a start up program change, click your start menu and select "run". Type "msconfig" (without the quotes) and select "startup". Un-check everything you don't need automatically booted with your system. This should greatly reduce booting time and free up your RAM memory by not running programs that you don't need.