feeling when you clicked on something and your PC reacted immediately?
Most clients I speak to think they just need a new computer. It must be
time, they sigh. Well, not really. Here is an example of a heavily
fragmented drive:
This poor drive is bleeding to death!! The red indicates fragmented files.
These are files that have been split and separated on the disk. When your
system wants to use these files, it must reassemble them first, which is
time consuming work for your processor AND hard disk. Thus, your computer
runs sloooowly.
Notice something else with this drive---the white space is the FREE space
left on the drive. Not much there, I'd say. Windows needs a lot of breathing
room. In fact, Microsoft recommends that you leave 20% of your disk free of
data. This gives the drive and the operating system plenty of room to run
efficiently.
So before you drop a large chuck of change on a new system, do a little
house cleaning first:
- remove programs you no longer use
- archive files that no longer need
- defrag your drive
If you haven't installed any new software, that PC should run just like you
purchased it.
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