If you have somehow stumble across this article please be advised it is part 2 of the series. If you have not read part 1 you may want to go do a search for it before delving into this one. With that said we left off at number 4 in part 1 of the last article so we will continue with number 5.
5 ) Air Flow: Many people try and hide their computer tower away under a desk or in a cabinet, etc. Although the tower may not be the most visually appealing item in the room, you should try and provide room for good air flow space around it. Heat is a major contributor to many computer problems. Hiding it away under a desk or in a closed space just compounds the problem. If you must keep it tucked away somewhere consider putting a small fan by the tower to help the air circulation.
6 ) Reboot: Memory problems can slow your computer down drastically. As programs are opened on your computer they request a portion of your installed RAM, (random access memory). Now ideally wh en you shut a program down it should release that RAM to be available for other programs. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen. As a result over the course of the day as you open and close various programs your available RAM dwindles. By doing a reboot or restart periodically throughout the day you will force the computer to release RAM that was still being held for programs that were no longer open. If you use many programs over a few hours time frame it's a good idea to go grab a coffee or coke and tell your computer to reboot while you are doing that. You should notice a change in speed and accessing programs and Internet surfing when you reboot.
7 ) Disk Defragmenter: This is another program available in your accessories/system tools folder. Imagine your hard drive is like a file cabinet. As you create and edit files you just toss them in the file cabinet. Then when you go back to your file cabinet to find a particular file you have to sort through all the file s piled up in the file cabinet. So you take everything out of the fil e cabinet and sort and organize it in an easy to find system and put it all back in. This is basically of what happens when you run Disk Defragmenter. There are also many free and pay programs out there that work quite well. I use a program from a company called AusLogic which is a free disk defragmenter program that works quite well. You can download AusLogic Disk Defragmenter here: AusLogic Disk Defrag: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download By following the above maintenance suggestions your computer should remain in tip top shape for a long time. Remember that it's up to you to implement these suggestions and keep up with updates and actually using the programs for them to keep your computer, ( and you), happy and healthy!
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Author: Mike Hagerty
I have been working and playing on the web since back in 1995 with my first computer, a Compaq 386, with the "lightning fast" 56k modem, that new fangled windows 95 OS, and my massive 40MB hard drive and omg 16MB of RAM! .....my how times have changed.
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