PC HEALTH CHECK -IMPROVE YOUR PC PERFORMANCE - OPTIMIZE YOUR PC EFFICIENCY

Improving your pc health revolves around key issues like defragging the hard drive,cache clean up,managing the memory and there are the obuous pc security threats such as spyware, malicious programs, viruses.Improving the pc's performance also is attributed to limitting the various background processes that may slow down your pc considerably.All operating systems work best when at least 20% of the drive is kept free. You can make room by deleting unwanted photos, music and documents or by archiving your data on to removable storage like writable CDs.Alternatively, with the cost of hard drives falling all the time, try buying a second drive to store your documents separately to the operating system. Lets have a look at an indepth analysis for fine tuning ypur pc.

Clean up your Cache

Caching helps us to load a particular web page much quicker when compared to the very first time.What basically happens is the web site data like pictures, scripts etc., are stored on your hard drive thus occupying valuable hard disk space.These cached data are stored in the form of temporary internet files and can be emoved by clearing the private data.for example, in case of firefox it is, tools->clear private date ->ok.Delete the cookies and offline web data too.In addition to these junks of data, pieces of registy keys sometime stick around in your system even after uninstalling a software. You can easily remove them using software like registry cleaner or ccleaner.

Memory Management

With the price of RAMs dwindling day by day, its not too bad if you have atleast 2gb of RAM to boost up your pc speed .But this finite memory can be overloaded due to a large number of processes running in the background .Also some applications run at startup, so its advisable to reduce the number of applications that run at startup as small as possible.In Microsoft Windows this is set in the System Configuration Utility.On an Apple Mac, right-click an icon in the dock and un-tick Open at Login.

Driver Updates

Always an updated driver is sure to boost up the speed especially if you have not done it since your machine left the shop.

Malicious Software

Malicious software like spyware and and viruses that come along with software, also hijacks some of your processing power besides putting your personal data at serious risk.A number of spyware detectors and antivirus software are available for both the Apple Mac and PC.They all work in the same way by searching your system and removing any offending data.For my personal use, i like using Norton Internet Security 2009, but Bitdefender is also not a bad option.A number of spyware busters such as windows defender, norton total security.. are available.Check on our security suite ratings to choose the beat of the lot.

Hard Drive Defragment

Hard disks inherently become clumsy and disorganized over time as data become split up and are stored as junks and pieces, shuffled around the avalable space in different sectors of your hard drive.This significantly slows down the access times of data .A better solution would be to organize data such that data are arranged logically, thus improving the access times dramatically.Windows has built-in defrag tool while Apple's Mac needs commercial programmes to do the job.Windows or Mac,brace yourself for some time as it is somewhat long process.

Shutdown Power

Sometimes, the button in the front your machine sends your pc into sleep rather than actually turning off your pc.The power has to be down for your pc to recover from hours of working time and recouperate .Especially power down option helps to cool off your pc.All you have to do this is go to control panel->power options where you can configure what a thumb to the off button actually does: sleep or shutdown.