3 Ways to Make Your Computer Working Like New

Windows systems are used to perform numerous tasks efficiently. It works exceptionally smooth when you buy it new but over time due to prolonged use, it starts creating certain performance related issues. These issues may cause due to various reasons. If you are dealing with certain PC problems as your system starts fading away, then you should try these steps to experience that smooth performance when you bought it new.

Manage Startup Items: Your startup process may include many unnecessary programs and apps which run for no good reason and makes boot process lengthy. These unnecessary programs and apps include bloatware, obsolete programs, and other unnecessary items. When these unnecessary programs run at boot time they prolong the boot process. To manage these programs and to speed up your boot process to improve your system performance you can perform some tweaks in system settings. To improve and manage startup process in Windows 7 and prior versions follow these steps.

• Go to Start menu and type “msconfig” in Run box and press enter to open System Configuration window.
• Select Startup tab here to view all startup items.
• Now uncheck any item in the list which you don’t want to run during startup time.
• Click on Apply and reboot the system.

To manage startup items in Windows 8 & 10, follow these steps.

• Right-click on the taskbar and select Task Manager.
• Now in the Task Manager window click on the “more details” to see a detailed view of the items.
• Click on the Startup tab to see programs that run at boot time.
• To disable any item from running at startup, right-click the program and select Disable option from the pop-up menu.
• Reboot your system to see the difference in boot time.

Update Drivers: Drivers are typically a piece of software that helps Windows to communicate with system’s hardware. For example, audio & graphics drivers help you to perform high-end music and video features efficiently. Outdated drivers hamper system performance considerably.  Your system automatically downloads and install most of the drivers for your various device like network adapters, monitor, video cards, printers etc. through Windows update. It is likely that your system hosts all latest drivers still if you want to update drivers manually you can perform these steps.

For Windows 7 and prior versions.

• Click Start menu and right-click on Computer.
• Select Manage and click on Device Manager in the left pane.
• In Device Manager window, select and expand categories to locate the device you want to update the driver for.
• Now right-click on the device name and select Update Driver Software.

For Windows 8 & 10.

• Go to Start menu and type Device Manager in the Run box and select it from of options.
• Expand the category and sift through the devices to find the device you want to update the driver for.
• Right-click on it and select “Update Driver”.

Here you will find two options.

• First, “Search automatically for updated driver software” to update drivers automatically.
• Second, “Browse my computer for driver software”. Here, click on the Browse button to find the location of the downloaded driver file. Else, copy and paste the location address of downloaded driver file to the box. Click Next to install the driver.

Defragment Disk: Your system disks get fragmented over time due to prolonged use and make your system hard disk work extra time. It usually slows down your computer speed and performance. To deal with it, you can defragment your disks using built-in Disk defragmenter tool. It will help fixing an issue related to disk on your system.

Follow these steps to defrag disk on Windows 7 & earlier versions.

• Go to Start menu and type disk defragmenter in the Run box and select it from the options.
• Select the disk you want to defragment under Current Status.
• Click on Defragment Disk to initiate the process.

Alternatively, you can click on Analyze Disk button to check whether your disk requires to be defragmented or not. It may take some time during defragmentation process. You can use your computer during the process.

To defrag disk in Windows 10, follow these steps.

• Go to Start menu and click File Explorer from the left pane.
• Click This PC option and right-click on the drive (on which Windows 10 is installed) which you want to defrag. From the context menu, select Properties and go to Tools tab.
• Click the Optimize button under Optimize and defragment drive section.
• Make sure OS drive (usually C: ) is selected.
• Click on Analyze button and wait until Windows completes the analysis and show the percentage of fragmented files.

Note: If Windows doesn’t find fragmented files then it will display a message stating disk doesn’t need to be defragmented.

• Once Windows completes the analysis, click on Optimize button to initiate the defragmentation process on the selected volume.
• Wait until Windows complete defragmentation process.
• Reboot the system and start using Windows 10 normally.

You can follow these simple steps to improve your system performance immediately. Following these steps, you can improve the performance of the individual device and a system as a whole. Improved speed and performance will save your time and efforts too.