Operating System Maintenance:
This next subject is self explanatory. It involves basic maintenance to the computer like cleaning the registry, defragmenting a hard drive, creating backups and restore points, and deleting startup entries. Also if you like these videos, please subscribe to my Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/mast3rduckyduck
How to Clean Registry:
The registry is like a database that stores all the information about your computer. It stores information that you have created, like changing your desktop background. It also stores information of the new programs that you install. When you delete these programs, the registry still keeps some of that information. This causes your computer to take longer to start up. To fix this, please watch this video:
To fix registry problems, please click here.
How to Defragment a Hard Drive:
When you use your computer and open and close files, your hard drive experiences something called fragmentation. The way I learned is that it's like a book shelf that is in some type of order (alphabetical, by genre, etc...). When you take out a book and put it back in the wrong place, it takes longer for the next person to find the book they are looking for. This is the same concept for a hard drive. When you open a file (program, Word document, movie, etc...) it used to be in the perfect order, but now some of the files got moved in the wrong area, so it takes longer to find the next time. This causes your computer to perform slower. Please note that this is only for mechanical hard drives. Solid State Drives (SSD) have a different way of storing all their files and are way faster than mechanical hard drives so they don't need defragmenting.
*Never defragment a Solid State Drive*
To learn how to defragment a hard drive, please watch this video:
To download Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, go to this site:
http://filehippo.com/download_auslogics_disk_defrag/
How to Delete Temporary Files in Windows 7
When you download stuff from the internet or run programs, your computer will save them to a file called "Temp". It's not a big deal, but over time the files inside that folder get big, and cause a slight slowdown with your computer. Deleting these files will not harm your computer. It actually tells you that you can't delete certain files because they are currently in use.
Please watch the video to learn how to delete temporary files.
How to Uninstall a Program
When you have programs that you will never use again, you are just wasting hard drive space. The reason you'd want to delete them is because it'll make your computer run a little faster because there is less stuff on your hard drive. This means that it won't take as long for your computer to find the files that it is looking for when you are using a computer. Also, when your disk becomes fragmented, the slow effect will be less on a hard drive with less files in it than one with a lot of files.
Please watch the video to learn how to uninstall a program:
How to Delete Files That Are in Your Recycle Bin
When you delete a file you don't want anymore, you don't actually delete it. What your computer does is that it saves it in the recycle bin just in case you accidentally deleted it. I believe that the recycle bin holds the file for a certain time period and then deletes it, but don't quote me on that. When it's saved to the recycle bin, this means that your hard drive didn't free up space because the file is still in your hard drive.
To delete these files, please watch this video:
How to Restore Deleted Files From Recycle Bin
As stated in the above paragraph, your files that you delete aren't actually deleted until you delete them from the recycle bin. If you accidentally deleted them, please view this video to learn how to restore those files:
P.S. If you are wanting to recover files that have already been deleted from recycle bin, do a search for "Recuva" from Piriform. You can find it at filehippo.com or the piriform website. It's free and it works really well to recover your files. I'll be posting a video on that in the near future.
How to Overclock Your Processor
I will be explaining more on this soon, but for now I am just showing this video on how to do it. Please be careful when overclocking because you can damage your processor or motherboard if you do not have proper cooling. Also if you have a newer processor like a Core i3,5, or 7, or the AMD FX processors, you probably don't even need to overclock anyways because those processors are fast to begin with. I have a Pentium 4 (super slow) processor so I overclock mine. Eventually I will be upgrading to a Core 2 Quad :).
How to Change Power Options
The purpose of changing power options will mostly benefit laptop users, but it still has some benefit for desktop users. The main reason for changing the power options for laptops is to make your battery life last a little bit longer. On a side note, if you want to make your laptop last longer on a single charge, turn off your wireless switch when you are not using the internet. Keeping it on uses more battery because it's constantly connecting to the internet or constantly trying to find a wireless connection. Now back to the power options. There are 3 different power options that come with Windows 7: Power Saver, Balanced, and High Performance. Power Saver is the good one for laptop users that aren't plugged into the charger. Power Saver increases battery life because it lowers your computer's performance wherever it can. Balanced pretty much means that it balances between saving power and high performance. It will give you more performance than Power Saver, but you will get less battery life. You will also get more battery life, but less performance than High Performance. That's the best way I can explain Balanced mode. Now high Performance is what will benefit desktop users who are in to gaming. Now if you're just a casual internet surfer, you can keep your desktop on Power Saver if you want, but High Performance is perfect for desktop users. You get the most performance out of your computer, but you don't have to worry about battery life because it's constantly being powered by your outlet. For laptop users, it's only recommended to use High Performance when you are plugged in to your charger, but you can still use it unplugged if you want. You just need to remember that your laptop will run out of battery way sooner than on Power Saver. Now to learn how to change your power options, please view my video:
Notice that I have 4 options, the different one is called Gaming Mode Power Plan. That is from Gamebooster. It is used to make your games run faster. To learn more about gamebooster, look it up online or leave a comment for more information.
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