“My system is too slow.” “Look how much time it takes to install
things.” “My system slows down while playing games.” “My
software doesn’t function correctly.”
These are some very common statements uttered by PC owners. You
might be among one of these. Well if you are, here are some
basic tips which can help you optimize the performance of your
system by optimization of your operating system.
Windows system optimization is the most basic tool which can
maintain the performance of your system. You might be spending
hours trying to adjust your CMOS settings, RAM frequency and
even the registry setting of the windows. Well its time, you use
some windows providing optimization tools for better performance
of your system.
Disk Errors Disk errors are most commonly prevalent in a
majority of computer systems. And this is the most overlooked
problem even by computer professionals. You often escape the
disk error scanning which pops up after a bad shutdown. Well if
you keep on escaping the disk error scanning, chances are that
your hard disk would develop bad sectors. These bad sectors
would initially hamper the proper functioning of your system and
then can even lead to hard disk crash.
You should make sure that you allow the disk error scanning
option to run and correct any of the disk errors on your hard
disk. Once in a week you should also go for the thorough scan
disk option which scans the hard disk for errors and corrects
them. You should check all the partitions of your hard drive.
You can access this option by right clicking on your hard drive
partitions and selecting scan disk from the tools options.
Temporary File Cleanup Cleaning the temp folder in your windows
is very essential to get rid of all the unwanted files. These
files are the left-overs of the programs which you have
uninstalled from the system or other unwanted files. If you do
not delete the contents of this temporary folder, the files
could gather up to 100 MB of practically no use. You should
delete these files as it would help in saving the hard disk as
well. To delete these files select the Run option and type
%temp% and press O.K. After it displays all the files, select
all and delete them.
If you browse the internet with the help of explorer, the
temporary cache files should be deleted from the temporary
internet folder as well.
Defragmentation Files which are stored randomly on your system
tend to slow down its performance. Your system looks for the
fragments of randomly distributed files from everywhere and
eventually become slow. To bring back all the files of all
programs together, use the windows de-fragmentation tool. This
tool joins all the loose files and optimizes the performance of
your window.
The Paging File The paging file is widely known as the windows
virtual memory file. This file is used by the system when the
windows run short of the actual RAM. Windows keeps on increasing
and decreasing the size of the page file, which in itself is not
very efficient. This affects the accessibility of fragmentation
of your files. You should rather define your own paging size.
Select the minimum and maximum size of the virtual memory to be
the same. A preferable size is about the double the RAM you
have.
By following these basic windows optimization methods you can
maintain a good performance of your system.
About the author:
Matt Garrett, http://www.advanced-system-optimizer.com