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Christian InTech Articles - Computers
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Email Management
If you utilize a computer at home or work it is likely that you use email. Email is an electronic message that is sent from one computer to another following a specific protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or SMTP). As email's popularity has...
Get Started in Game Creation
I’ve always loved video games, ever since I first played them on a friend’s computer in the afternoon after elementary school. There’s something almost magical about the fact that we can move images around and interact with virtual worlds, a living...
Postal Service Wants 5 Cents an Email
You may have received an email about how the US Postal Service is trying to push through a bill that would allow them to charge 5 cents per email. I can understand why people would think that it's true. The Postal Service had nothing to do...
Protect your Computer and Internet Privacy
Is a known fact that every time you open a browser to view a web page, order something online, or read your email in a web based viewer that information is stored on your computer for later use. Whether you are viewing the weather online, reading...
Sci-Fi Communications at Home
Computers and web cams are taking communication to levels only imagined in sci-fi novels. One of the most incredible inventions I’ve ever come across is the web cam and its process of video conferencing. This is just so futuristic I can’t believe...
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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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