How to get more speed from your PC!
1 Comments Published by ITSGUI Man on Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 12:19 PM.
I feel the need for Speed!
There are plenty of ways to speed up your PC. Here is a quick summary of the key tasks and a selection of the software I use to assist with the task. I know that there is a lot of software out there so feel free to investigate further..
1. Uninstall unwanted programs - You might think that 'Add/Remove Programs' is adequate but I recommend using ZSoft Uninstaller as it does just a bit extra with it's range of options.
2. Optimise your system memory - see no. 8 for preferred option, but if not, then an optimising tool such as Ram Booster allows various tweaks and options to improve performance.
3. Check that you are using the correct software versions - Filehippo is a quick tool that tells you what software needs upgrading plus gives you a direct link to the new version. That's cool!
4. Clean-up unwanted files - CCleaner is the best tool for this task!
5. Check start-up programs - Too many programs and processes running in the background take up too many resources and slow the PC down. Are they all necessary? NO! use a manager tool such as WinPatrol to run just what you want, when you want.
6. Clean the Registry - The heart of the operating system is the registry and problems with it can cause significant performance problems. I use a useful tool from Eusing that scans the registry looking for obselete and invalid entries.
7. Defrag your disks - To ensure an efficient hard disk you need a disk fragmenting tool to ensure that all files are easily accessible. Auslogics Disk Defrag is the chosen tool for the job.
8. Buy more RAM! - this is always a good solution. Buy the best and fastest you can afford.
There are plenty of ways to speed up your PC. Here is a quick summary of the key tasks and a selection of the software I use to assist with the task. I know that there is a lot of software out there so feel free to investigate further..
1. Uninstall unwanted programs - You might think that 'Add/Remove Programs' is adequate but I recommend using ZSoft Uninstaller as it does just a bit extra with it's range of options.
2. Optimise your system memory - see no. 8 for preferred option, but if not, then an optimising tool such as Ram Booster allows various tweaks and options to improve performance.
3. Check that you are using the correct software versions - Filehippo is a quick tool that tells you what software needs upgrading plus gives you a direct link to the new version. That's cool!
4. Clean-up unwanted files - CCleaner is the best tool for this task!
5. Check start-up programs - Too many programs and processes running in the background take up too many resources and slow the PC down. Are they all necessary? NO! use a manager tool such as WinPatrol to run just what you want, when you want.
6. Clean the Registry - The heart of the operating system is the registry and problems with it can cause significant performance problems. I use a useful tool from Eusing that scans the registry looking for obselete and invalid entries.
7. Defrag your disks - To ensure an efficient hard disk you need a disk fragmenting tool to ensure that all files are easily accessible. Auslogics Disk Defrag is the chosen tool for the job.
8. Buy more RAM! - this is always a good solution. Buy the best and fastest you can afford.
defragging your hard drive should be the #1 priority and it's no good just doing it once you have to do it continually. Make sure you temporarily disable and delete the swap file, clear out any enormous directories (use windirstat to find the file hogs) and then run DiskKeeper to do the degrag.
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