HOW...... Optimize
your Hard Drive which means to increase its efficiency
by speeding up disk operations and allowing more data to be
stored on the disk.Perform the following to get your computer
performing at its very best.................
DELETE UNUSED
FILES.... If files on the hard drive
are not being used,you should
delete them since the cluttering of unnecessary files
wastes space and increases the time required for the hard
Drive to access data
DEFRAGMENT THE
DISK..
Using
your computer over time causes your files to become
spread out over the hard drive in sections.This cause the
the drive to have to search for files much longer.To place
these files back into one area,you run a Windows utility
named DEFRAG.You
should run this program weekly.
PARTITION THE
DRIVE.....
If your hard drive is
large,partitioning
it divides it into two or
more logical disks.You would place the most used files in
the primary drive which is almost always DRIVE C.All of
your seldom used files should be put in another drive,such
as DRIVE B,or DRIVE E,or whatever you named the other
logical drives.DRIVE A is always your Floppy Drive and
DRIVE D is normally your CDROM Drive.
PERFORM MAINTENANCE
WIZARD.....
Maintenance Wiizard allow you to schedule your computer for
certain maintenance to be done at certain times.This utility will
put the files in your startup folder and when you turn on your PC,
these programs will run.You may want to have the ultilty named
Disk Cleanup to run each time you turn on the PC to get those
junk files removed.Or consider running Disk Defrag or Scan Disk
to keep your hard drive running at full speed.
PERFORM SCHEDULED
TASKS.....
The Scheduled
Task programs goes one step further in that it will
allow you to schedule such utilities to run at a certain time of day
or night.Why not run Scan Disk at 11.00pm when you,re in bed
and have Disk Defragment to run at 1.00am that same morning or
maybe the next day.With this awesome utility,you simply double-
click on a certain task and modify the schedule to your desires.By
running these utilities,you'll will most likely avoid problems that
can
lead to erratic system performance,and at times,even system failure.
TWEAK YOUR BIOS
SETUP.....
BIOS
is a set of software instructions needed by the computer to boot
up and then detect the hardware such as the video card and CPU Chip,
that is needed to get the PC running.Next it boot's the operating system
such as Windows98.This process is called the POST or Power On
Self Test.You can download certain utiities that will optimize your
BIOS
settings which should cause your PC to get itself going much faster.
Visit TWEAK
BIOS. This site has an excellent FREE
utility that will tweak
your BIOS setup which will allow your PC to run smoother.
CLEAN UP YOUR
ROOT DIRECTORY.....
The root directory is normally the C Drive and if you're not
paying attention,files and directories will be added which will
slow your system down.Keep only the files needed to run the
computer inyour
root directory.Doing so allows the computer
to keep your files much better organized.
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