No matter how expensive a computer or laptop is everyone may have encountered performance or speed related issues. For example games lagging, unable to browse at normal speed, browser unable to open a website at its actual speed, operating system taking more time to boot i.e. start up, operating system takes time to shut down, operating system taking time to open a file, etc.
Computers or Laptops run slow or aren’t able to perform at their optimum level because most of the time micro-processor is busy or running some other task or a lot of tasks.
Other reason can be software which processor is running its files aren’t located close to each other in hard-drive. Thus hard-drive’s head has to keep moving from 1 sector to another to send files to processor.
To prevent this from happening you may defrag hard-drive/hard-drives. You’ll find this software in System Tools in Accessories.
Using some system tools softwares like Error Checking or Scanning hard-drive also enhances hard-drive’s performance. Error Checking can be done by right clicking hard-drive, then click properties, then tools then in Error Checking tab click Check-Now.
You can also type a command “chkdsk” in MS-Dos prompt.
If you download a lot of files from web daily then save it on your other drive/drives & not on C drive or drive which has Operating System.
Delete files from folders named %temp%, prefetch, recent, & temp.
If you’re unable to access these folders then can click start, then click run, type %temp% & hit enter then delete files in this folder.
Similarly for opening prefetch folder click start, then click run, type prefetch & hit enter then delete files in this folder.
Similarly for opening recent folder click start, then click run, type recent & hit enter then delete files in this folder.
Similarly for opening temp folder click start, then click run, type temp & hit enter then delete files in this folder.
In Windows 7 it’ll be tough to open these folders.
If any difficulties in following the above procedure in Windows XP & Windows 7 then you may download 2 softwares like C Cleaner & Disc Cleaner. These 2 are good softwares. You may download it & after downloading it setup it. After that just run it by clicking necessary options. It shall delete unwanted files.
N.B. If you have a habit of deleting important files & then recovering it from recycle bin then uncheck Recycle Bin option before running softwares like C Cleaner & Disc Cleaner.
If you don’t wish to use these softwares then you may use Disc Cleanup. You’ll find it in System Tools in Accessories.
Also while copying files in your hard-drive it’s better to not execute many copy commands. It takes more time & files get saved in different sectors. Thus it takes time to read as files are in different sectors & defrag procedure also takes time.
For running web browser at its optimum level start Browser’s then open its options by clicking tools & clear temporary internet files & cookies.
On extreme right of task-bar you may find some running programs which may not be required always e.g. messengers or printer software, etc. If you don’t wish to use it all time & system isn’t running at its normal speed then you may right click those softwares that are running unnecessarily & click exit.
While not using internet & if you won’t connect any external drive or insert CD & are just gaming (not online) or listening to a song or watching a movie or painting or using word or making some presentations or reading any document then turn off your anti-virus & turn it on when required. Anti-Viruses also use a lot of RAM so turning it off for some time shall also allow your system to run at its optimum level.
If you download files big in size then its better to not queue many downloads at once as it increases load on hard-drive's head. It’s better to download 1 file at a time while downloading files that are big in size as it's good for hard-drive.
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