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5 Steps to Cleanup Your Computer

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Bhavishya Kanjhan.

It doesn’t matter if you have the fastest processor on the market or RAM in excess of 4 gigs, you computer will slow down after a certain amount of use. Today, I’m going to run you through a 5 step process to clean your computer of the leftovers you may have from the various applications you installed then uninstalled to bring its performance as close as possible to when you first bought it.

Let’s get started!

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Schedule Hard Drives to Defragment Automatically

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by Brian.Ross.

Have you ever noticed that the more you add and subtract videos, documents, MP3s, pictures, games, and so on to your computer the slower it gets?  This is partly due to what known as fragmentation of your data.  Windows does a few funny things with your files when you uninstall and install programs all the time.

The easiest way to get your computer back up to speed is to defrag it.  Performing regular defragmentation of your hard drive will certainly improve your file and application load time.  However, in the hurry of our daily tasks we often forget about doing this, so here is a way to schedule your PC to do do it for you.

WARNING:  It is not recommend, nor is it necessary to defragment solid state drives, which includes flash drives.  Doing so may cause damage to the drive.

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4 Hard Disk Utilities You Should Have to Pay For

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by JP.Thompson.

Sometimes you to run into the case when you need a utility or two to keep your PC in tip-top shape.  Well, I ran into the case of needing four different utilities for fixing up my hard drive and for various reasons.

These utilities work so well that I’m surprised the authors and companies aren’t charging people for them!  Here are four great utilities for cleaning up, defragging, unlocking, and backing up your hard disk drive.

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