Speed up my PC

Speed up your PC

                                                               We can speed up our system without using any software.

This is done manually by decreasing the startup programs,deleting the temporary files and by the hard drive maintainence.

Startup Programs

These are the programs that starts when the operating system starts.These programs become burden for the operating system to load them in the begining and also takes more time.Let me explain completely.

Example:

Consider a PC with windows7 as the operating system and with some startup programs in it.

The time taken by the windows7 to get loaded is 10 seconds(say),then the startup progams take some more time to get themselves loaded by requesting the windows7.That extra time will be burden for the operating system and will be an unnecessary delay for us.Disabling those programs in the startup will reduce the time delay,but this won't affect the performance of those programs.

Disabling Startup programs:

It is very simple and requires no additional software.

1.Open RUN in start menu (shortcut: windows+R).

2.Type "msconfig" and hit enter.

3.A new window named "system configuration" appears.

4.Select Startup.

 There u will see a lot of programs,some checked and some unchecked.Be careful while disabling the unnecessary programs.Don't uncheck the startup items which are related to your antivirus and intel programs.The reamining can be unchecked.For example SKYPE,BING DESKTOP,ADOBE applications can be disabled in the startup as they are not necessary from the startup unlike the antivirus.

After you disable all the unnecessary programs APPLY and "EXIT WITH RESTART" is recomended.

Deleting the temporary files

Temporary files are located in C drive.By deleting these temporary files C drive attains some free space thereby the speed of the operating system increases.Temporary files(.TMP) are files created to temporarily contain information while a new file is being made.

How to delete temporary files:

1.Open RUN and type "temp".

2.Temp folder opens with lot of files in it.

3.Select all files (shortcut: CTRL+A) and delete them.

(SHIFT + DEL  deletes the requested files without moving them to recycle bin)

4.Repeat the above steps by accessing the following commands in RUN

  "pref-etch"    "%temp%"    "recent" .

Hard Drive maintenance

Hard drive maintenance is the most important thing that we should take care of.Checking the hard drives frequently for Drive errors and Defragmenting.


*There should be a minimum of 10% free space in your hard drive.
Example:If your hard disk capacity is 500 GB,then there should be a free space of 50 GB in total. 

1.Open my computer (shortcut: WINDOWS + E).

2.Right click on any drive and select properties (shortcut: ALT + ENTER).

3.Select tools, there you see "Error checking" and "De-fragmentation".

4.Error checking can be done individually for every drive.

5.De fragmentation can be done all drives at a time.

6.Select "defragment now".

7.A new window "Disk Defragmentor" opens there you can analyse all the disks that at what % they have been fragmented and they can be defragmented.

8.Select all drives and "Analyse Disks".

 After analysis it shows how much each hard drive is fragmented.Then "Defragment Disks"

This is how we can speed up our PC manually without using any software.