As our culture becomes more complex and information becomes more readily available to us, we demand instant results! Over time that once speedy PC goes to a complete crawl. Now we get frustrated and occasionally break things. No more instant gratification.
As part of your PC maintenance I encourage all you PC users out there to defrag your PC! It can speed up start ups of applications by over 20 percent in addition to the initial start up.
Ok ok I’m getting there relax! For all you instant gratification seekers who skipped through the entire blog post to get this far, here are the simple steps you take to perform a defrag on your PC.
- Go to start
- Programs
- Accessories
- System tools
- Disk defragmenter -
At this point you want to analyze your hard drives for fragmented files (if you have multiple partitions or hard drives you will see them listed). Perform the analysis on all the drives and see which ones need a defragment. Once you found the culprit that’s slowing down your pc – click the defragment button. Sit back and wait (yes you actually have to wait). It could take a few hours in some cases, depending on how long your previous defrag was. I recommend defraging at least once every couple of weeks.
Ahhh relief…
More PC advice, information and PC how tos to come.
If manual defrag is a pain, a good alternative is to get a totally automatic defrag program like Diskeeper and set it to run in background mode. It defrags without affecting other functions and runs smoothly keeping the drives in shape. I like it as its not heavy on resources and works well even in low free space on the drive.
Thanks for the contribution Bartun. I actually added that to our list of Software Products we carry and referenced your post. I gave the software a test drive and was pleased with the results.
I want to start my first blog, what cms do you use and recommend for me ?
Can’t go wrong with WordPress.