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Free Spyware Removal - It's Not as Easy as it Sounds
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You really enjoy those dvd movies and games and the last thing you need or want is to experience problems with your dvd drive.
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How To Stop The #1 Cause Of Computer Slow Downs And Crashes!
Wouldn't it be nice if your computer still ran like it did back when you first got it? Before you go and buy a new computer try this key maintenance step you can use to put life back into the computer you've already got.
Imagine that you start up your pc just to find yourself staring at a blue screen with white writing, termed "the blue screen of death" by those at Microsoft.
So you push the power button to shut it down, and when you bring it back up it just crawls. Within a few minutes it goes back to the blue screen of death.
This happened to a friend of mine. When she asked me what she could do, I asked her if she had ever defragmented her pc.
She got that "deer in the headlight" look, so I knew she hadn't. Defragmenting her pc, after 3 years of never doing so, took about 14 hours to complete.
One of the main reasons that computers slow down is poor maintenance practices.
Unfortunately, when you buy a new computer you don't usually get much instruction on how to maintain it. Poor or no maintenance allows your hard drive to become more and more fragmented which will slow it down over time.
To best explain hard drive fragmentation think of your hard drive as a file cabinet. In this cabinet there are folders with documents (files) in them.
When you need to work on something you open the folder containing the necessary file, pull out what you need and put the folder back. The files go on your desk so you can work on them.
Over time certain files don't get put back, or they get
put back in the wrong places.
When this happens on the hard drive it leads to fragmentation. Think of defragmenting as going through all of the files on your desk, and in the cabinet, and putting them all back in order in the correct folders.
Just as staying in this state of disorganization would lead to a significant loss in your own productivity, the same thing happens to your computer.
Eventually this even causes crashes because of how scattered all of the information gets.
Disk fragmentation can even shorten the lifespan of your computer because your hard drive works so hard that it wears out faster.
So the one step solution for this part of computer maintenance, run the defragmenting tool that comes with windows at least once every couple of weeks.
Do this by clicking Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, then click Disk Defragmenter. Choose the disk you want to defragment and click the defragment button.
Alternatively you can get software that will automatically keep your disk defragmented, like Diskeeper by Executive Software.
Take care of your pc maintenance and you will continue to enjoy the speed you experienced when you first made that investment!
(c)Chuck Moorefield - All Rights Reserved
About the Author
Chuck Moorefield is a former corporate computer technician who is dedicated to helping non-technical people maintain and restore peak computer performance. How fast can your PC run? Click here to find out => http://www.restore-your-pc.com
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Tucows Downloads - Download Freeware and Shareware Software |
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www.tucows.com |
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Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com |
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www.download.com |
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www.computer.org |
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downloads.zdnet.com |
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Software products for your digital life. ... The perfect addition for professional review. QuickTime Broadcaster. Encoding software for live events. ... |
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dmoz.org |
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About: The Web browser is probably the most frequently used software today, ... Web professionals can use the software for functional testing and regression ... |
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Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
Listing of the GNU software packages. |
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Joel on Software |
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies. |
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Online shopping for computer & video games, business & office productivity software, software from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe & more; accounting, antivirus, ... |
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IBM Software - Home Page |
IBM home page for all of its software products, including Lotus and Tivoli, with keyword search, category browse and AZ product names. |
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Opera web browser: Homepage |
Copyright © 2006 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved. Skip navigation. Opera Software ... Copyright Opera Software ASA . All rights reserved. ... |
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Search only in Software Search the Web ... Software Categorized by Letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ... |
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