How to improve your computer speed?

Do you ever feel that your computer speed is not as fast as it used to be. I do. Upon some research, I had started to understand what is happening.

Basically, there are some reasons on why the speed of a computer drop in comparison to the time when it was first manufactured.
a) Difficulty to find data due to clutters.
b) Resistance in accessing data
c) Insufficient memory
d) Too much background activity, especially spy ware

There are some essential maintenance items that we should do to optimize our computer speed such as below :
- Performing disk clean up
- Performing disk defragmentation
- Performing scan disk or disk error checking
- Performing registry cleaning
- Installing windows defender to protect from spyware.
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How to perform disk cleanup ?

Disk cleanup will remove unnecessary file from our computer, and give us more space.
When combined with disk defragmentation and scan disk, it can help to improve our computer operation speed.

To perform disk cleanup :
a) Go to My Computer
b) Right click your hardisk and choose properties
c) Click on disk clean up tab
d) Then you can choose the files that you want to remove
e) I usually remove all files EXCEPT Office setup files.
f) Then click OK.
g) You can also go to [More option] tab at step d), to remove unnecessary windows component and installed programs.

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How to perform disk defragmentation ?

File defragmentation will organize data in our hardisk, so that it will be able to be access easier and faster. It is equivalent to re-organizing scattered books on a shelve according to its category. When data is easier to be find, our computer will naturally, work faster.

To perform file defragmentation :
a) Go to My computer
b) Right click your hardisk and choose properties
c) Click Tools tab.
d) Choose defragment now
e) Then click on defragment tab.

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How to perform scandisk

Scandisk or error checking will check disk for file system errors, and detect disk bad sectors. By identifying bad sectors, your computer will avoid to search data from those areas, hence resulted in faster computer operation.

a) Go to My computer
b) Right click your hardisk and choose properties
c) Click Tools tab.
d) Choose [Check Now] at error checking area.

Sometimes, scandisk needs to be re-scheduled in the next windows startup.
If this is chosen, when you started windows the next time, it will conduct a scandisk first, before going to your windows.

Related topics:
How to perform registry cleaning?

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