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
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
power button to shut it down, and when you bring it back up it just crawls. Within a few minutes it goes back to
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
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
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
folder containing
necessary file, pull out what you need and put
folder back. The files go on your desk so you can work on them.