subject: Pc Maintenance Tips [print this page] Experienced computer users have such experience, a PC formatted, newly installed on the system, very fast, but the use of a period of time, performance will drop significantly, which of course increases with the system software, the load changed a great relationship. But the problem is caused by adding new software is not the only reason for the increase in system load, such as increasing the hard disk of debris, leaving the software to delete unwanted registry file, may cause system performance degradation. In fact, at any time as long as we reasonably maintain computer systems, you can always make the best of the state of PC operation.
Clean-up
First, install anti-virus software. Network to bring you convenience, you also bring harm. When you download new software, new drivers or patches, or even download the letter, virus quietly in a corner of your computer hidden down, so your system does not run slower and slower, is often inexplicable crashes, more is serious is, CIH virus can invade the motherboard BIOS, the computer triggered the emergence of various abnormal phenomenon, so the computer anti-virus software is an important and indispensable tool for the system. The world's more popular anti-virus software Dr Sdomon the Anti-Virus, McAfee's VirusScan, and Symantic's Norton Antivirus, the software works these are the same, that is, or after the system starts after receiving the order to scan the whole or part of the hard disk drive, a virus is found immediately clear. They also in your network, the automatic update, it is very important because the virus is constantly introduce new, if not up to date anti-virus software, but also how to protect the computer?
Second, clean the disk fragments. Hard to use for some time, can be stored in the physical space has become discontinuous. When you install applications, or save large files, the data is usually divided into many pieces to disk is not contiguous area. More and more fragments of the hard disk, the file will be more scattered distribution. Then when you run a program again, open a file, you will find the machine slow unbearable. Therefore, the machine periodically to the disk clean up debris, that is, those file fragments back in order in the continuous arrangement of disk space, clean up after each time, you will find large applications running, open the large image or document much faster the. Win9x comes with a "Disk Defregment" Disk Defragmenter in the "Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools" where you can find the. It works pretty well, just too slow, Norton suite of Speed Disk, is a good disk defragmenter, it is not only fast (just finishing Disk Defagment 1GB hard drive half the time), and it will get you frequently used files on the disk's front-end (speed can be greatly enhanced), and those who frequently change files on the hard disk back over the empty position, in order to reduce fragmentation.
The third step is to remove redundant files. Every hard disk space ran out, you always have to remove some unwanted programs or files. When you press the "Shifi + Delete", you can not think they have gone too clean, but in fact there are no longer related to the connection file and the registry keys still persist with the hard drive. You need to install software to use anti-those who do not want to completely remove the programs and files. Among the many anti-installed program, Cyber Media's Uninstaller and Quarterdeck's CleanSweep is the best. Both the software easy to use, fast, remove completely. They can check and application to remember the location of disk storage, and related connection files, copy files, when the file is no longer used, you can choose to delete some or all of the documents, but also allows to delete the entire program, or complete the application into other systems. When you upgrade your computer, this feature is very useful.
Check
After cleaning up the drive, the next step is to check. By regularly scanning the hard disk, and continuously upgrade the software, always check the computer status, can be avoided. Specifically, the following:
First, to hard to maintain in good condition. Although not the heart of the computer hard drive, but if something is damaged, the loss to you is difficult to calculate. BOOT particular area on the hard drive, slightly damaged, the system may be paralyzed. Thus, the hard drive is not the lack of routine maintenance, these maintenance primarily using disk scanning tools to carry out. ScanDisk tool can scan the physical surface of the disk, check the file system directory structure, and to test the reliability of the hard disk. Typically, if a non-normal shutdown, the files on the hard disk most likely cross-connections or cluster loss. If not repaired at this time, Windows will become unstable, program execution mistakes.
Second, we must constantly update the software. Software version upgrades frequently is necessary, in general, a software upgrade to fix the old version of the BUG, but also can reduce the application or operating system error rate. Upgrading the hardware drivers can give full play to the performance of the hardware, so that better communication with the operating system. Through the vendor's Web site, can generally be timely access to the latest patch or driver upgrade. In addition, some well-known personal home page also provides software and driver downloads. If you frequently upgrade the software, you can use the automatic upgrade of specialized tools, such as CyberMedia's Oil Change, it can check the entire hard drive to record the application's version number (but not be hundred percent accurate), then with the server database to compare and judge, and automatically download updates. Oil Change records in its database of more than 1,000 versions of the software changes and a large number of hardware vendors to change the situation, such as Adobe, Diamond, HP and Microsoft and so on. Other software, such as Catch-Up (www.manageable.com), Versions (www.versions.com) also provides similar functionality with Oil Change.
Third, in-depth understanding of PC's internal structure. On the Start menu, select "Settings / Control Panel / System", open the "Device Manager" tab. Here you can view the details of the various parts of the hardware. For example, you want to view MODEM situation, if there is no question mark in front of MODEM, said the device normal circumstances, double-click on it will display more detailed information, including configuration is appropriate. Configure the device or simple way to eliminate the conflict device is a hardware conflict with Win 9x diagnostic device to complete. In addition, special software can also be used to solve the hardware problems, such as CyberMedia's First Aid 97, is a pretty good software, hardware, conflict resolution, it can increase the speed and quality of Windows, the program will be frozen unstable to prevent the collapse of the entire system.
Fourth, to improve Internet access speed. Internet access was slow, not the computer itself, the main reasons many people are online narrow, unless the selection of faster high-speed ISDN MODEM or some of the connections. If the connection can not be a change on system optimization, or can be limited to improve the access speed. VitalSigns Software Corporation Net.Medic is a special software to improve Internet performance, it can diagnose network connectivity, server, MODEM and other network-related equipment, all states, the speed potential of the network devices into full play.
