"How To Stop The #1 Cause Of Computer Slow Downs And Crashes!"
Wouldn't it be nice if your computer still ran like it did back when you first
got it? Before you go and buy a new computer try this key maintenance step you
can use to put life back into the computer you've already got.
Imagine that you start up your pc just to find yourself staring at a blue screen
with white writing, termed "the blue screen of death" by those at
Microsoft.
So you push the power button to shut it down, and when you bring it back up
it just crawls. Within a few minutes it goes back to the blue screen of death.
This happened to a friend of mine. When she asked me what she could do, I asked
her if she had ever defragmented her pc.
She got that "deer in the headlight" look, so I knew she hadn't.
Defragmenting her pc, after 3 years of never doing so, took about 14 hours to
complete.
One of the main reasons that computers slow down is poor maintenance practices.
Unfortunately, when you buy a new computer you don't usually get much instruction
on how to maintain it. Poor or no maintenance allows your hard drive to become
more and more fragmented which will slow it down over time.
To best explain hard drive fragmentation think of your hard drive as a file
cabinet. In this cabinet there are folders with documents (files) in them.
When you need to work on something you open the folder containing the necessary
file, pull out what you need and put the folder back. The files go on your desk
so you can work on them.
Over time certain files don't get put back, or they get put back in the wrong
places.
When this happens on the hard drive it leads to fragmentation. Think of defragmenting
as going through all of the files on your desk, and in the cabinet, and putting
them all back in order in the correct folders.
Just as staying in this state of disorganization would lead to a significant
loss in your own productivity, the samething happens to your computer.
Eventually this even causes crashes because of how scattered all of the information
gets.
Disk fragmentation can even shorten the lifespan of yourcomputer because your
hard drive works so hard that it wears out faster.
So the one step solution for this part of computer maintenance, run the defragmenting
tool that comes with windows at least once every couple of weeks.
Do this by clicking Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System
Tools, then click Disk Defragmenter. Choose the disk you want to defragment
and click the defragment button.
Alternatively you can get software that will automatically keep your disk defragmented,
like Diskeeper by Executive Software.
Take care of your pc maintenance and you will continue to enjoy the speed you
experienced when you first made that investment.
About the Author:
Chuck Moorefield is a former corporate computer technician who is dedicated
to helping non-technical people maintain and restore peak computer performance.
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