Keep your Hard Drive Clean for a Faster Hard Drive
After the external care for your hardwares, it is time to clean up your computer internally.
Cleaning your hard drive not only can give you a faster hard drive, but also can make sure that rubbish and malwares are removed, which can give you a safer computer environment.
The below 2 tips are the easiest tricks that you can run to clean your hard drive:
1. Free up disk space
The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space because the browser caches each page you visit for faster access later.
Steps:
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup. If several drives are available, you might be prompted to specify which drive you want to clean.
- In the Disk Cleanup for dialog box, scroll through the content of the Files to delete list.
- Clear the check boxes for files that you don’t want to delete, and then click OK.
- When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the specified files, click Yes.
After a few minutes, the process completes and the Disk Cleanup dialog box closes, leaving your computer cleaner and performing better.
2. Speed up access to data
Disk fragmentation slows the overall performance of your system. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. The response time can be significantly longer.
Disk Defragmenter is a Windows utility that consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer’s hard disk so that each occupies a single space on the disk. With your files stored neatly end-to-end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk speeds up. In addition to running Disk Defragmenter at regular intervals—monthly is optimal—there are other times you should run it too, such as when uou add a large number of file or your free disk space totals 15 percent or less.
Steps:
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Defragmenter.
- In the Disk Defragmenter dialog box, click the drives that you want to defragment, and then click the Analyze button. After the disk is analyzed, a dialog box appears, letting you know whether you should defragment the analyzed drives.
- To defragment the selected drive or drives, click the Defragment button.
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