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Posted: February 4, 2009 03:21 am  | |||
      IRC Nickname: Sithofwookie Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2842 Member No.: 815 Joined: June 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 48    | I know I did not write this myself but I thought it would be good for everyone to read and to help those people that lag during wars and such. Got it from this website. Computers tend to bog down over time. Some simple maintenance every 2-4 weeks (depending on computer use and programs installed) will only take 10-30 minutes, can be performed at any knowledge level and will keep your computer running smoothly. With this guide, and two downloads, you will see a noticeable improvement. This is fairly basic and something all computer users should do. Remove programs you no longer use or knew about: Over time, you may have installed games or utilities that you forgot about or no longer use. Why waste the space? Go to your control panel, Add\Remove programs and uninstall anything you no longer use. Occasionally you will find a toolbar or other item you were unaware was there! Cleaning your hard drive of unneeded files: One of the biggest problems is hard drive usage. Your hard drive has more moving parts then any other in your computer and is constantly adding, deleting and reorganizing files. Because of this, you want to clean your computers hard drive. A great tool for this is CCleaner: http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_...ish_d4191.html Simply open CCleaner, and the cleaner section should be open. Click run cleaner and wait. Thats it, your done. It is a very safe tool and has never damaged any of the hundreds of computers I have run it on. Remove invalid registry entries: Next up is the registry. Frankly, the registry is overrated as a speed tweak, in general, but it does get large and can contain many invalid references. The registry is not an area for even the average computer user to be playing around in. The good news is CCleaner has a safe registry cleaner built in, so why not clean out old, invalid entries? Click the issues button. Click scan for issues. Click fix selected issues. Thats it, your done, a safe, fast registry clean. Startup items: Here is a HUGE culprit on the average PC. See all those icons in the lower right corner of your screen? Those are all being loaded on startup, and those are not all of them either! If your wondering why you have to wait a minute to use your computer after startup, it is because all of those items are loading after Windows has started. They also use up memory just sitting there. Removal takes a bit more knowledge, or research, then the previous two, but you can do it! First off, if you know what these items in the tray are and do not need them running, you can either right click an icon and look for options or a "run with Windows" option. Otherwise, you can double click any icon to open the program and look for options from there. Some are easy and common. Quicktime, AOL and RealPlayer are good examples of items that do not need to be there. CCleaner also has a startup manager. Click tools, then startup. You can delete any unneeded items from there. Be careful, there is no backup, so either look up the program on Google or ask on our forums if you want to know what an item is for. Because the startup loads drivers and some programs you may need, be careful removing items you are unsure of. Defragment your hard drive Now that you have removed all of this garbage, you have defragmented files all over your hard drive. Reading and writing data on a heavily fragmented hard drive is slowed down because the time for the heads to move between fragments on the disk surface can be substantial. The files on your hard drive now probably look like a box of tacks after I open them and toss them on the ground. Defragmenting your hard drive would be like the box of tacks still sealed. All neat and tidy and easy to get at. Microsoft includes a disk defragmentor, but it is widely known that it is not very good. Luckily, quite a few free alternatives are available: IObit SmartDefrag is a newer, free program that works great: http://majorgeeks.com/IObit_SmartDefrag_d5318.html JKDefrag does simple one click defragmention: http://www.majorgeeks.com/JkDefrag_d5542.html Auslogics is an easy to use free program: http://www.majorgeeks.com/Auslogics_...rag_d5266.html Lexun DrvCareXP is popular, though abandoned and unsupported: http://majorgeeks.com/Lexun_DrvCareXP_d2715.html Diskeeper Lite is good for a heavily used computer: http://majorgeeks.com/Diskeeper_Lite_d1207.html --------------------  | ||
Posted: February 4, 2009 09:08 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Dnovelta Group: Emeritus Posts: 2750 Member No.: 130 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 137 | Since you didn't write it, at least give the person who did some credit. --------------------   | ||
Posted: February 4, 2009 09:15 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Hyperion Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1636 Member No.: 978 Joined: June 23, 2008 Total Events Attended: 141 | If you did write that then your right on a few parts but wrong on a few also. CC cleaners are very dangerous if used wrong. It is pretty much not needed ever. It dangerousness overweights its usefulness. However startup items are a big deal. --------------------    Dragon boots:29 Whips:2 | ||
Posted: February 5, 2009 01:08 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Sithofwookie Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2842 Member No.: 815 Joined: June 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 48 |
Good idea, I'll do that now -------------------- | ||
Posted: February 8, 2009 06:14 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: spanthrax Group: Ex-Member Posts: 813 Member No.: 29 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 37 | WOW i did all this and my comp is now a little bit better. not much but every little bit counts --------------------  | ||
Posted: August 17, 2009 05:13 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: slayer_oli16 Group: Guest Posts: 75 Member No.: 2013 Joined: August 14, 2009 Total Events Attended: 2 | Usually there are some tools built into the pc usually found in control panel that help out when it comes to making your pc run faster --------------------  If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Proud owner of the fire cape | ||
Posted: August 17, 2009 05:44 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Edanias Group: Ex-Member Posts: 127 Member No.: 1918 Joined: June 23, 2009 Total Events Attended: 31 | Thanks for the information my computer is running better with Ccleaner! -------------------- | ||
Posted: August 17, 2009 09:32 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Plano|Adam Group: Emeritus Posts: 1449 Member No.: 228 Joined: February 13, 2008 Total Events Attended: 107 | reported for viruses. --------------------  "If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0" | ||
Basic computer maintenance, everyone should do