Computer Maintenance Self

Computers now days slow down over time. Some simple maintenance every week will keep our computer running smoothly. With this Information you will see a noticeable improvement. This is very simple basic and something all computer users should do.

1.) Remove Unnecessary Programs you no longer use or knew about:
Now-days we may have installed so many games or utilities that we forgot about it or no longer use it. Then why waste the space? Go to => Control Panel => Add \ Remove Programs and Un-install anything you no longer use.

2.) Cleaning your Hard Drive of unneeded files:
the biggest problem is hard drive usage. Our hard drive is always working and is constantly adding, deleting and re-organizing files. All pictures, text and animations that we view while surfing the Internet are saved in the cache taking up unnecessary space. Because of this, we must clean our computer’s hard drive. A great tool for this is C-Cleaner or R-Wipe&Clean. It is a very safe tool and I have never heard it damaging any computer users.

3.) Remove Invalid Registry Entries: (Do Backup Before changing in Registry)
In no-time the registry becomes larger and larger as the new programme’s or hardware are installed, enters itself by creating registry values and keys. Thus making the system longer to find the specific information and makes the speed of windows slower. It also contains many invalid references or leftovers from the removed programs or files. It is not an area for even the average computer user to be checking around in. The following software: Tune-up Utilities, Registry Cleaner, IObit Advanced System Care, C-Cleaner etc are some of the safe fast registry to download and use to clean out old, invalid entries? That’s it.

4.) Startup Items:
This is also one of culprits on the average in making the pc slower. Many programs itself start up with windows. Because of the loading of these entire items at startup, you have to wait some minute to use your computer after the Windows has started. They also use memory. You should remove the unwanted from startup. First, if you know what these items in the tray are and do not need them running, you can either right click an icon on the system tray and look for options to not to start up with Windows option. Otherwise, directly open the program and look for options from there. Tune-up Utilities, IObit Advanced System Care, C-Cleaner etc also has a startup manager. You can delete any unneeded items from there. Because the startup loads drivers and some programs you may need, be careful removing items you are unsure of.

5.) Defragment Hard Disk:
Fragmentation of the hard disk is also one of the reason why a computer runs noticeably slower. Each new file is stored on an empty disk in one piece immediately after the previous one. When Windows requests a file, the read head only needs to move once to be able to read the entire file in one operation. If an application deletes a file from the middle, it leaves a gap. Windows uses this gap later to store the next new file on the disk. If, however, the space available in this gap isn't big enough for the new file, Windows breaks the file into two pieces and puts the second piece somewhere else that's free. Over time, more and more gaps are created and more and more new or modified files are stored in more and more fragments. This causes a considerable slowdown in computer performance: The disk's read head must repeatedly be moved to read in each of the file fragments. Where previously one or two revolutions of the hard disk were sufficient to read the data into memory, now perhaps ten or a hundred times as may revolutions are needed. Windows Operating system includes a disk defragmenter, but quite a few free good alternatives are available: IObit Smart Defrag, JKDefrag Diskeeper Lite, Tune-up Utilities etc.

You should also use a malware antivirus, trojan scanner regularly just to be sure you did not pick something up. Try to download all programs from a trusted site. Keep this programs up-to date. Don’t open untrusted email attachments and delete the emails immediately from unknown sources.