When your computer gets slow, it’s often because the hard disk is fragmented; you can often improve Windows 7’s performance by defragmenting it. Defragmentation goes through your hard drive and reorganizes all the bits and pieces of data scattered throughout, sorting them and putting them in order. You might visualize it as your kitchen cabinets if you never cleaned them out; it takes you forever to find that can of peaches you know you have somewhere. When you sort and clean things, however, your peaches are with the rest of the fruit, right where they belong.
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Author: Jamie K Wilson
Tips On How To Protect Your Computer From Viruses
It’s critical that you protect your computer from viruses. The sophisticated bugs hackers use today can do much more than break your computer or steal your online time; they can also steal your credit card information, bank information, and track everything you do online. Although viruses are difficult to eradicate, they are also relatively easy to prevent if you’re careful.
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How To Speed Up Your Slow Computer
If you’ve used a computer for a while with no effective maintenance on it, you may be begging for information on how to speed up your slow computer. There are three major problems that cause your computer’s speed to drop: fragmentation, front-loaded software, and temporary files draining memory. Because most slow computers have all these problems, you need to address them simultaneously as well as you can. By repairing problems in your slow computer and eliminating things you don’t use, you can optimize the speed of your computer, potentially making it faster than when it was new.
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How Windows Firewall Protects Your Computer
You’ve heard that you need virus protection and spyware protection for your computer, but the Windows Firewall may seem like overkill. It’s not. Because of the way computers work, you can never have too many protections on your system, provided they do not slow it down too much. While viruses and spyware help clean things from your computer that you have accidentally invited in, the firewall acts to keep things out, period.
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