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Tips on Keeping Your Windows XP Running Smooth

August 19th, 2009 Admin No comments

There are numerous matters that cause a computer to perform slower than before.
It can be from software to hardware.
It can be the storage is too small or not enough RAM.
It can be your BIOS, Operating System Settings or software that are eating up your CPU and RAM.
Or perhaps it can be your network.

Here are numerous tips that can help maintaining your computer perform faster:

1. This is so classic I shouldn’t need to tell it, keep clean which ever email software you use.
I have customers who are constantly complaining, but who will resist dumping years of accumulated emails.

2. Make sure you have a great anti virus program, apply only one anti virus on each computer, make it up to date and auto monitoring.

3. Make sure you use a strong anti spyware program, utilize only one anti spyware along each computer, have it up to date and automatic monitoring.

4. Run Disk Clean Up Daily by following these steps : Start, Pograms, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Clean Up – a box opens – be certain all box is selected, click ‘OK’ – a box pops up – Click Yes).

5. Delete Cookies and Cached Files Periodically by following these steps :
Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Delete Cookies, Click OK, Click Delete Files – select ‘Delete All Offline Content’ – Click OK, then set your clear history to no more than seven Days – Click OK.

6. A really essential measure almost everyone misses Clean The Prefetch Folder :
Start, My Computer, ‘C’ , Windows, Prefetch Folder, Edit, Select All, File, Delete – Click Yes, Close Windows.

7. Empty Recycle Bin. I believe everyone knows how to empty the recycle bin.

8. Scan drive ‘C’ :
Start, My Computer, Right Click ‘C’, Click Properties at the bottom, Click Tools, Click Check Now.
Be certain both ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ and ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ are selected, Click Start.

9. Defrag Computer :
Start, software, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter, Select ‘C’ Drive, Click Defragment.

The last two steps, step 8 and 9, can take a while if they haven’t been done recently.
I complete this entire routine on my computer before I finish working for the day everyday and the total steps requires no longer than twenty minutes.

External Hard Drive Advantages

July 1st, 2009 Admin 2 comments

An external hard drive is a hard disk drive (much like that on your computer) is placed on appearance, in the case outside. You can buy them pre-made or buy a hard drive and enclosure, and make your own.
They come in many sizes, that is relatively cheap, and is very suitable for implementation of the various role.

In this article, I will mention three specific advantages of an external hard drive. For one reason or another, you may choose the storage capacity for your computers data that have grown faster than your computers capability. It may be contain large capacity of documents and programs, and you need more space. So the first advantage is to use your external hard drive to increase the scalable of your computer. This is true, if all of your PC ‘s hard drive bay is full, and, especially if you have only one hard drive bay of a laptop computer.

The second advantage is to use your external drive as a shared storage drive. You can attach it to a personal computer and set it to be accessible and share the capacity. Then, start saving and sharing a wide range of documents. As an example, you can share and save images, musics and video files.
Therefor, you ‘ll be able to free large space in your computer local hard disk and you ‘ll be able to share files on your home network.

Your external hard drive can be use to save important documents as for another advantage.
For example, you can scan your insurance information, leases, bank accounts and credit investigation, and store them into your external hard drive. You can keep pictures of your valuable things on your external hard drive and keep these safe for your future needs. Then, you can store the external hard drive in a safe place such as a fire-resistant safety box or security box. This will safe you from the possibility of theft or even worse, nature disaster.

There you have it. That’s is three advantages of your external hard drive. This kind of hard drives have been produced in various tipes and come in various capacity that you may choose for your needs. If you have saved a lot of files, then you can get a 500 GB hard drive or greater, if you wish. If you only have a number of important documents, then a 15 GB hard disk is likely to be enough. The important thing is that you may have be able to select the size you want. And, if you want, you can get more than one external hard drive. That’s what makes it so ideal.