5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Laptop

Written by Cody Kahl


Does your notebook seem slower than molasses these days? Do you often find yourself coming torepparttar point of heartache and even yelling a few choice words at your machine? If so, thenrepparttar 107147 simple steps listed in this article are for you.

In this article we will take a look at some ofrepparttar 107148 easiest things that you can do to automatically speed up your laptop. And as a bonus, all of these tips can be done for free!

1.) Defrag - How can defragging your hard drive speed up your notebook? Maybe by explaining how a defrag works, you will see how important it is.

When your hard drive is new and has no data on it, things get stored in blocks easily. When files and/or programs are stored in nice chunks, they can get accessed quickly – This is why your hard drive is blazing fast inrepparttar 107149 beginning. As time goes on things start to slow down. Files get deleted and this creates empty blocks inrepparttar 107150 hard drive.

New files and programs will get saved to these empty blocks, only they aren’t all together – They are spread out. When files/programs are spread out among different blocks of storage, they get accessed much slower. Defragmenting your hard drive brings related files and programs back into a nice big block. This is achieved because your computer knows which files and programs are related through their address.

2.) Empty Recycle Bin – This one is pretty self explanatory, and may even seem like a non issue. Maybe it is, but there are plenty of people that keep their recycle bins full, allrepparttar 107151 time. If something is inrepparttar 107152 recycle bin, you might as well empty it.

3.Erase Temporary Files – The internet as well as your operating system often store temporary files in special folders. These temporary files are just that, temporary, but they often stay on your computer for a number of days or even indefinitely. I don’t recommend going and deleting stuff in folders if you are unsure of what you are doing. Thankfully though, there are many programs out there that will go through and delete unnecessary files for you.

Why Build Your Own Gaming Computer?

Written by Nathan Holsing


The best way to getrepparttar gaming computer that you want, that will provide optimum performance is to build your own computer. If you think you do not haverepparttar 107146 technical knowledge or are not capable of building a computer you are wrong. I'm pretty certain that I could teach my mother (who has a hard time working a VCR) how to build a computer. If you can plug a sweeper into a wall outlet and use a screw driver, you too can build a computer.

What The Computer Manufacturers Don't Want You to Know!

Manufacturers don't want you to know how easy it is to build a computer because they make their living selling complete computers. The truth is that manufacturers focus on selling a computer with an overall low price tag to entice people to buy. They userepparttar 107147 processor and software asrepparttar 107148 primary selling point. In most cases other thanrepparttar 107149 processor and mayberepparttar 107150 graphics card you have no idea what components they actually use. Alienware is one ofrepparttar 107151 rare exceptions. They tell you forrepparttar 107152 most, part what components they are using. However, this doesn't mean that these arerepparttar 107153 best components onrepparttar 107154 market. Every manufacturer gets regular visits from sales people convincing them that they should use their products. Just because a company gives themrepparttar 107155 best deal on a power supply that allows them to increase their profit margin onrepparttar 107156 computers they sell doesn't make itrepparttar 107157 best power supply. This often leads torepparttar 107158 use of inferior products forrepparttar 107159 sake of profit.

The Advantages To Building Your Own Computer

By building your own computer you are assured of gettingrepparttar 107160 highest quality because you have painstakingly researched every component. If you've ever wondered why your store bought gaming computer withrepparttar 107161 top ofrepparttar 107162 line graphics card and ultra fast CPU is still having trouble running newer games, it is likely because they stuck you with an inferior power supply, cheap motherboard, inadequate RAM, andrepparttar 107163 list goes on. In my mind it makes sense to build your own computer.

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