Make Your Computer Run Faster

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Make Your Computer Run Faster

• With Michael Shepard

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The Basics

• Defragment your drive to make it faster
• Use ScanDisk to check for errors
• Use Disk Cleanup to get rid of unneeded files

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Defragmenting

• Defragmenting rearranges files so they load
  faster.
• Its like reorganizing your office.
• If a file that you need is on the other side of
  the office it takes you a long time to get your
  work done.
• If files on the computer are closer together, it
  takes less time to load them.

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How to Defragment
3. Wait for it to finish!

• 1. Hit Start gtgt Programs gtgt Accessories gtgt System
  Tools gtgt Disk Defragmenter
• 2. Select your hard drive and press OK or
  Defragment.

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ScanDisk

• ScanDisk scans your drive for errors and fixes
  them.
• ScanDisk will NOT fix
• Bad programming.
• If the programmer messed something up, theres
  nothing you can do to fix it.
• Hard drive failure.
• If your hard drive fails, then you cant access
  the program anyway!

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How to Use Scandisk

• 1. Open My Computer, right-click your hard drive,
  and hit Properties.
• 2. Go to the Tools tab and hit the Check Now
  button for error-checking.

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How to Use Scandisk
3. Hit Standard. If you have serious errors, use
Thorough. Press Start and wait for it to finish.

• 3 (XP). Check both boxes and answer Yes when it
  asks you to scan at restart. Restart your
  computer.

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Disk Cleanup

• Disk Cleanup automatically searches for
  unnecessary files and eliminates them from your
  computer.
• If youre running out of space, this is the place
  to go.

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Cleaning Up

• 1. Hit Start gtgt Programs gtgt Accessories gtgt System
  Tools gtgt Disk Cleanup.
• 2. After it finishes scanning for files, it will
  give you a list of what you can eliminate. I
  recommend you check everything except Compress
  Old Files

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Remember!

• Do these things once a month to keep your
  computer fast and healthy.

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Turn Off Sound Channels

• Sound channels carry different types of sounds to
  your sound card. The more you turn off, the
  faster your system gets.

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Turn Off Sound Channels

• Hit Start gtgt Programs gtgt Accessories gtgt
  Entertainment gtgt Volume Control.
• Uncheck anything you dont need.
• MIDI is for musical sound files.
• WAVE OUT is for normal sounds.

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Turn off System Sounds

• System sounds are the irritating noises that go
  off whenever you do something wrong or the
  computer is starting up. You can turn these off
  if you want.

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Turn Off System Sounds

• Open Control Panel.
• Double-click Sounds.
• Go to the Sounds tab.
• Hit No Sounds in the theme list.

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Now your System is QUIET
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Disabling Visuals (XP)

• Windows XPs visuals are nice to look at, but
  they use a lot of memory.

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Disabling Visuals (XP)

• Right-click my computer.
• Hit properties.
• On the Advanced tab, hit the first properties
  button.
• On the visual effects tab uncheck any visual
  effects you do not notice or need.

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Turn Off Indexing

• Indexing takes your files and makes a search
  encyclopedia for your computer to use when you
  are looking for a file. Its supposed to make
  searches faster, but it does not seem like it.

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Turn off Indexing

• Open Control Panel.
• Go to Add/Remove Programs.
• Click Windows Setup or Add/Remove Windows
  Components.
• Uncheck Indexing Service in the list.
• Hit Next or OK.

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Disable Startup Programs

• You probably start your computer and wait for a
  million icons to load into your taskbar. You can
  eliminate these by going into each program. If
  you cant find the setting in the program follow
  these steps...

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Disable Startup Programs

• Hit Start gtgt Run
• Type msconfig and press ENTER.
• Go to the Startup tab.
• Uncheck programs you know you dont need.
• You can also uncheck items on the Services tab,
  but be very careful.

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Clear Page File at Shut Down (XP)

• There is a file on the hard drive called the
  paging file (PF). If Windows runs out of
  temporary memory (RAM), some data goes to this
  file until Windows needs it. If you clear this
  file, you can increase speed and security.

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Clear Page File at Shut Down (XP)

• Start gtgt Run
• Type regedit and press ENTER
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
  Session Manager\Control\Memory Management
• On the right panel, right-click a blank spot and
  hit New gtgt DWORD
• Name it ClearPageFileAtShutdown
• Double-click it
• Type a one in the value box
• Hit OK

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User Profile Hive Cleaner (UPHClean) (XP)

• Windows stores settings in a database called the
  registry. Sometimes information goes in the wrong
  places, so it takes Windows a longer time to log
  off. This program moves the information back into
  the right place.

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UPHClean (XP)

• Type in UPHClean on Google and hit Im Feeling
  Lucky.
• Download and install the file. It will start
  working after you restart your computer.
• You will never see this program, because it runs
  in the background.

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Fun Stuff

• Merlin
• Maze Game

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Thank You