If your computer performance feels very slow, this is clearly hindering productivity at work, completing tasks, and surfing the internet. In welcoming the new year, it seems that old computers must also return as new in their performance. To get this performance, there are several steps you must take to re-boost computer performance. Computers at this time may be regarded as a primary need, especially for students and office workers. So it needs sufficient care to keep its performance from decreasing which results in less comfortable using the computer in helping to complete our work. Here are some tips to make computer performance feel like new:
Perform Disk Cleanup Periodically
The first step you have to do is to do a Disk Cleanup regularly. The goal is that Disk Cleanup can delete data that is not needed by the PC system, and empty the Recycle Bin. The trick, on My Computer, right-click select Properties, then click the Disk Cleanup menu on the General tab. Select the drive you want to clean, then run Disk Cleanup.
Delete Unused Apps
You need to evaluate what you need and what is not on your computer. For that, it’s time to clean up the PC storage. Choose a program that you never use and uninstall it to save storage capacity. To do this, open the Control Panel, select Uninstall Programs. Check the Last Used On option to find out which applications are used the least, then right-click, select Uninstall.
Move Large Files to External Hard Drive
So that the default hard drive on your computer is not too crowded by existing files, it’s a good idea to move it to an external hard drive. In addition to making the default hard disk able to ‘breathe’ with relief, in terms of security it will also be more useful if one day your computer experiences unwanted things.