How to Make your Computer Faster
Part 3
Delete your Internet
browser history
Every time you browse or surf the Internet via your Internet browser like
Microsoft IE or Mozilla's Firefox your travel history is saved. Every website page with every image and
every bit of text is recorded and stored on your hard drive. It is kept in a temporary Internet files
folder refer to as your cache.
This does speed up your Internet browsing of websites
but only if you go to that website often. If you only go to that website once it does nothing to help speed
up your browsing. In fact it just eats up hard drive disk storage. It also allows spyware and
viruses to make a home on your PC.
Microsoft IE
Browser
Open IE| Tools| Delete Browsing
History| Delete All
Mozilla
Firefox
Open Firefox | Tools | Clear Private Data| Clear Private Data
Now
About once a month I suggest you delete your Internet browsing history for
improved computer performance.
Detect and repair
disk errors
As you use your hard drive, it can develop bad sectors on its disk platters where
data and files are stored. When you have bad sectors or spots on your hard drive your PC will slow
down. It is normal for hard drives to develop bad sectors or spots after short or long periods of
usage. Don't buy a new hard drive. Just run the free Windows Check Disk program.
To Run the Error Checking
utility
Close all open programs and files | Start | Run | and
type cmd in the Open line. Click OK
Than use one of the following procedures to
complete check disk:
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To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, at the command prompt,
type chkdsk, and then press
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To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, at the
command prompt, type chkdsk volume:/f , and then
press ENTER.
Note If one or
more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)
Type Y , and then press ENTER to
schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.
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To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable
information, at the command prompt, type chkdsk volume:/r , and then
press ENTER.
Note If one or
more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)
Type Y , and then press ENTER to
schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.
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You should run this utility once every few months to help prevent data loss and to
get faster computer start up and faster computer performance.
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