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Monday 4 July 2011

Few Things You Can Do to Speed up Your Computer

Having an organized hard drive is very important to having a fast running computer. There are several utilities that Microsoft provides in the operating system that will help take care or organizing your hard drive.

The first step is to remove all the unnecessary items that are cluttering up your computers hard drive. You may have duplicate files, music, photos and more. There may be programs that you have never used that can be un-installed. Visiting websites and creating and editing documents and spreadsheets create temporary files. All of this and more are things that are just sitting around on your computers hard drive, taking up space and slowing it down.

The Disk Cleanup utility along with the Add/Remove Programs tool are useful for cleaning out old or unused programs. They will help to remove all the temporary files along with other items that are safe to remove. After you remove all the unwanted items you should run the Disk Defragmenter tool to reorganize your hard drive. The great thing is that while it is recommended to run these utilities weekly you can automate the process making it a seamless process.

Next to general overalls speed issues a slow running browser is the second biggest annoyance for computer users. Be sure your browser is updated to the latest version. Make some changes to the settings for web history and page history and you should notice an improvement here as well.


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