Basic PC Troubleshooting

• Slow PC – Too many Files ?!?!?

  22Mar
  Categories: Hardware, Information, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips, PC Troubleshooting Tips, Windows XP Comments: 0

  Hard drivesare quite reliable, so reliable today that they have gotten cheaper and better, lasting longer than their predecessors. Along with the many innovations, they have also grown in terms of data density or the amount of data that can be stored within the same footprint. Having a Pentium 4 that you bought a couple of years back might still be working right but as you may have noticed, it may have gotten a tad bit too slow.
  Previously smoothly running applications have started to bog down enough for you to down a cup of tea or coffee plus a doughnut or two before it loads might be the result of too much information in your hard drive.
  Adding a second hard drive and relocating all the MP3′s and video you have crammed into your older drive can boost speeds but if you love new software and other applications, you might just be out of luck and have a need fro a new PC rather than a drive. You might also consider using the new drive as your boot drive for the older one would surely be prone to fail sometime soon. Re-install all applications and transfer vital files and documents to the old drive(which is now your secondary drive) so you have a clean slate to work with.