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April 13, 2010

Keeping Our Personal Computer's Performance Through Disk Cleanup and Defragmenter

Here are several ways on how to maintain our computers at its performance level. These are simple yet effective way to speed up our PC. These simple ways are sometimes disregarded or some of us are not familiar on how to use it. 


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Click ---- Start, then Programs, Then Accessories, Then System Tools, then Disk Cleanup or Disk Defragmenter

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First Alternative : Clicking the disk cleanup icon will display the disk cleanup window. Wait until it finish reading the data.

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After finish reading the data, a new window will appear (see Figure 3 and 4) displaying the folders to be clean. Click ok if you decide to clean those checked boxes.
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Second Alternative : Clicking the Disk Defragmenter icon will display the defragmenter window. Be sure to have at least 15% of hard disk space to proceed. Else, free some space by unstalling unnecessary programs.
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A comparison is shown before a defragmentation. Click Defrag to proceed.

Defragmentation is essential in computer's daily performance. You can do it 2-3 times a week or as may seems necessary. It helps especially those who loves to download files in the internet.

I hope this will help anyone to speed up their computer's performance. Otherwise, a virus is preventing our pc from doing so.

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