Optimizing Your PC for Top Performance

Tue, Nov 10, 2009

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Optimizing Your PC for Top PerformanceDo you get tired of sitting around waiting patiently (impatiently, perhaps) for your computer to turn on and do what you tell it to do? I mean, we expect that to happen when talking to our kids, but when we tell the PC to do something, we want it done immediately, right?

Well, this is certainly true, but a hard fact is this: the longer you have your computer and the more you use it, the slower it will become. Why is this? Your PC gets slower because the more information that is stored on it and the more places in which information is stored, the harder your computer has to work to get its job done – its job, of course, is to do what you tell it to do.

One of the best things you can do to get your once-speedy PC back is to optimize it. Picture this: You want to prepare for a tax audit, so you need to gather all your receipts, IRS forms, bills, and so on for the year 2007. The problem is, you have four different filing cabinets and six different file folders with all kinds of tax-related items in them. It’s going to take you a long time to gather all that stuff, right? On the other hand, if you simply made one file folder called 2007 taxes, all you have to do is open one item and you are ready to go. That’s a lot faster, right?

Well, the same is true of your PC. Your PC saves data, even if you don’t tell it to; the problem is, sometimes, it saves related information all over the place, so every time it tries to access that information, it has to hunt all over. If you want to speed things up, you need to defragment your PC so that all related items are placed next to each other in your hard drive. Defragging is the first step to optimizing your PC for top performance. Just search your Window’s to find out how to defragment your PC.

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