All Posts Tagged With: "Hard drive"
Give Your Hard Drive A Spring Clean With CCleaner
If you’re a lazy user and don’t fancy spending a lot of time giving your PC a spring clean, then one utility that will be right down your alleyway is CCleaner. This amazing piece of freeware will in a flash spruce up your hard drive by removing files you no longer use, that are taking [...]
11Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
20 No-Cost PC Upgrade Tips
Techlogg.com is my site discovery of the week. One of the reasons I love blogs is that they allow normal people to share their knowledge and expertise with a large audience. One great post on Techlogg.com gives 20 no-cost PC upgrade tips.
Techlogg is correct in their assertion that many PCs are not running [...]
Speedup External USB Hard Drives In Vista
Lots of useful Windows Vista tips are now starting to materialize. A new one that I’ve just implemented on my external Lacie USB Hard Drive is to enable Write Caching, which is turned off by default. By enabling Write Caching you can significantly speedup external Hard Drives in Windows Vista.
30Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Duplicate File Finder
One of the best ways to free up space on a Hard Drive is to remove duplicate files. It’s amazing sometimes how easy it is to save the same file in two places without realising it.
Sometimes the problem is applications that make duplicate copies of files, which in some instances can cause that app [...]
Disk Fragmentation: The Monster in Your Drive Bay
Lets face it, Hard Drives are dull. They are one of the most forgotten about computer components and hence most people don’t show their drives a lot of love. However, if you don’t put together a regular routine to keep your drive optimized then the rest of your system will suffer.
29Mar2007 | Tony Williams | 4 comments | Continued
How To Recover Deleted Files
Every now and then you will delete a file by accident and normally by the time you release, it’s too late.
Luckily the team that brought you the amazing CCleaner have also released Recuva. This cool free program scans your hard driver and will display all the deleted files in a list. This includes files emptied from the [...]
Make Your Hard Drive Run Faster
We spend so much time worrying about the speed of Graphics Cards and Memory, we tend to forget about optimizing one important component of all PCS - the Hard Drive.
These 10 tips will help to speedup your Hard Drives and your file access times. The ten tips are:
1. Disable Short Filenames
2. Name Your Files [...]
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