Defrag- How can defragging your hard drive speed up your notebook? Maybe
by explaining how a defrag works, you will see how important it is.
When
your hard drive is new and has no data on it, things get stored in
blocks easily. When files and/or programs are stored in nice chunks,
they can get accessed quickly – This is why your hard drive is blazing
fast in the beginning. As time goes on things start to slow down. Files
get deleted and this creates empty blocks in the hard drive.
New
files and programs will get saved to these empty blocks, only they
aren’t all together – They are spread out. When files/programs are
spread out among different blocks of storage, they get accessed much
slower. Defragmenting your hard drive brings related files and programs
back into a nice big block. This is achieved because your computer knows
which files and programs are related through their address.
2. Empty Recycle Bin
–
This one is pretty self explanatory, and may even seem like a
non-issue. Maybe it is, but there are plenty of people that keep their
recycle bins full, all the time. If something is in the recycle bin, you
might as well empty it.
3. Erase Temporary Files
– The internet
as well as your operating system often store temporary files in special
folders. These temporary files are just that, temporary, but they often
stay on your computer for a number of days or even indefinitely. I don’t
recommend going and deleting stuff in folders if you are unsure of what
you are doing. Thankfully though, there are many programs out there
that will go through and delete unnecessary files for you.
You can
set many of them up to run periodically, and they will do many of things
talked about in this article. You can find many of these programs on
freeware download sites.
4. Spyware & Adware Removal
– Both
spyware and adware are real computer killers these days. You have
probably been bombarded by offers to buy programs that will get rid of
all the junk on your computer – The simple answer is you don’t need to
get these programs. You can find freeware ones all over that will work
great. I like to use two programs simply because sometimes one will find
stuff that the other won’t. My favorites are Ad-Aware by Lavasoft and
Spybot – Search and Destroy.
5. Hard Drive Space
– Ok, I’ll admit,
this one may not be free. If you have deleted everything off of your
hard drive that you possibly can and you still have a shortage of space,
you are simply going to need a bigger hard drive. If you have less than
500 megabytes still available for storage space, I highly recommend
getting a bigger hard drive, as a computer with a filled up hard drive
will perform very sluggishly.
By periodically doing all of the above
you can generally keep your notebook in tip-top shape, and save your
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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