Personal Tech – Improve Computer Performance – What to Do When Nothing Seems to Help Repair Slow Computer Speed
I received a comment on one of my articles recently. Usually, comments are about the article content. Either someone agrees or disagrees with me. By leaving a comment they can let me know. Most comments I receive are from people telling me they found out what they needed to know to get their computers going at full speed again. This is very nice; after all, it’s what I’m here for!
However, the comment I wanted to talk about in this article was from a man who is having trouble getting his computer running at an acceptable level. Most article publishers will not forward email addresses comments come from, so I have no way to help this man except by writing another article and hoping he finds it. The following is the comment he sent to me:
First of all, you should know how to defragment disks in the Windows. You can click “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools” to start the disk defragmenting program, in the dialog box, you can choose one or all the disks to defragment and then click “OK”. During defragmentation, you can click “View Report” to see the current defragmenting process. But, if you cannot find such disk defragmenting program in the accessories, it means that you do not install it before. So you can install it by clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Add/Remove Programs” to accomplish that.
My answer I would have emailed to him would have been as follows:
I agree with the driver scanner support people you were talking with; you have a conflict. However, before you go too far into this problem, be aware of two things:
· Viruses and Spyware can create conflicts and
· A certain amount of repairs I make weekly are to PC’s that have been scanned for viruses and spyware, sometimes several times, but didn’t find the infection that was hiding on the hard drive.
Here is how I would approach your problem:
· First, I would close any virus, spyware, registry cleaning, driver scanning program I had on the computer. I have seen virus and spyware scanners stepping on one another causing conflicts and making computers act just like yours.
· Next, I would make sure nothing else is opened on your computer that isn’t absolutely necessary. In other words, look in the system tray and make sure everything there is essential. If it isn’t, close it. Doing these things may bring your problem to light. If not:
· Get a free scan with a spyware scanner that scans for viruses as well. You may have to get into safe mode to do this.
· Pressing F8 upon boot-up usually gets a PC into safe mode. Select safe mode with network support. If you have a high speed internet connection, you will be able to go online and get this free scan as long as you have network support.
You should defragment disk at proper intervals. Normally, the frequently-used disk partition is supposed to be cleaned up once a week, like C disk. As for the special disk, you even have to do that once a day. In other word, you should defragment different disks based on different using situations.
Some Windows system can rearrange the program files in the disk so as to quicken the program startup. However, such function is really time-consuming and inefficient. If you want to defragment disk frequently, you can cancel such function by clicking “Settings” in the driver choose dialog box and crossing out the option of rearranging the program files to speed up the program startup
Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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