Showing posts with label Optimize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Optimize. Show all posts

5.1.12

Computer Optimization - How to Optimize Your Computer in a Few Easy Steps

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A slow and sluggish computer can be highly frustrating and time consuming, which is why applying effective computer optimization techniques is essential. Slow performance of your computer can result in low productivity, which can even lead to financial loss in some circumstances. Apart from increasing RAM size and maintaining a good security ecosystem for your computer, there are a few simple techniques that a user can apply to keep the performance of a computer at an optimal level.

Listed below are few such quick but effective steps that one can perform for computer optimization:

Cleaning the PC Registry - The registry of a computer is a huge database with important information and data about the configuration and functionality of your PC system. Presence of unwanted or invalid entries in the registry can lead to bugs or errors, which will subsequently make the system slow and also start giving errors often. There are some good registry cleaning tools available in computer stores as well as online, that one may purchase or sometimes download for free. These programs are usually very effective in fixing bugs or errors, ensuring that the registry is healthy and free from corrupted or redundant entries. This is one of the most effective computer optimization methods.
Disk Defragmenter - Fragmented files slow down the performance of the computer because the computer has to search for all of the file's parts in the entire hard disk drive. When programs and files are added to the computer, they are often broken into chunks of data files that are placed side by side for faster access and retrieval. However, as the number of files and programs in the PC keep increasing with usage, the computer saves the updates on the largest space available on the hard disk. This results in fragmented files which are stored in dispersed places, leading to slow performance of the PC. The Disk Defragmenter tool places all related files together in correct order, which means that the system will now take less amount of time to find and locate the searched file.
Disk Cleanup - Cleaning up the disk is like cleaning up the clutter in a room or a cabinet. It removes all the temporary files that are created and stored when the user looks at web pages or works on files in various programs. These programs can include software like Microsoft Word and Excel. Over time, the number of temporary files increases, reducing the computer's performance significantly. The Disk Cleanup program helps to get the computer rid of these unnecessary files, thus helping in overall computer optimization.
Webpage history size reduction - Internet Explorer or other browsers store visited web pages and other Internet browsing information (such as pictures, videos etc) to the PC. Although it might be beneficial to keep the web history for few days within the computer, keeping more than a week's history is not required and thus should be removed from the computer. Too much data collected and stored from web pages can slow down the computer's performance. Reducing the size of web page history helps in computer optimization.

Overall, managing the performance of your computer is not a tough task. With good use of the above tools and techniques computer optimization can be simple and hassle free.

For effective computer optimization you need a software package that includes both PC optimizer utilities and maintenance tools as well. My best recommendation for an effective PC maintenance and optimization software which can perform all the tasks above is powersuite golden product from Spotmau. If you want more information about this program you can check out this powersuite golden review here.


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22.12.11

Four Tips to Optimize Your Server to Get More Performance

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That old server is starting to act up and dipping in performance. What do you do? Invest in new server? Continue to baby it till it dies (hopefully you have a good backup and the software available to recover) and then purchase a new one? Do you invest in a tech to come out and resolve the issues putting band aids on? These of course are some options and I hope that you do not take the chance and wait for the serer to crash to get a new risking loss of data and extensive down times. Before you decide to invest in another server are you sure that you are utilizing that server to its full hardware capabilities? Here are some tips to help you decide.

1. Performance Indicators

Is your server running at least 70-80% capacity during the busy hours of your business and at least 40% on the slowest times? You can check this through Microsoft's performance monitors and other third party monitors. Most businesses are under utilizing their servers and waisting valuable resources and instead of using what they still have available they are purchasing new servers.

2. Invest In Monitoring Software

This is a necessity and highly recommended! Monitoring will tell you in advance if something is going down hill and ready to fail. It will also give details of performance in hardware and will give you the ability to see what is going on with server performance in a more detailed scale. There are lots of monitoring products out on the net that range from free to expensive. Products such as Ground Works Opens Source which has a free community edition to products such as N-Able which you pay a fee on. Whatever you go with chose the one that will benefit you and your network and provide you with the best possible reports on your network performance and will help you tweak to squeeze more performance out of your server.

3. What Applications are Running

Knowing what is running on your server and turning off unneeded services and applications can greatly reduce the amount of resources you use, freeing up those resources for the applications you need to function properly. Virtualizing can significantly increase the performance of your applications! Look through your server and make sure you need what is running on the server. I have seen old software running on servers that is no longer in use and can be removed. Even some of the server services that are running can be safely disabled releasing those resources to more important things.

4. Do You Know For Sure if Its Time to Upgrade

If you have taken the time to look at the above steps and your server is still running at 80% capacity then it is time to invest in a new server. Decide whether or not to upgrade between software upgrades. Check the minimum requirements if you are deciding to upgrade to the newest software. Some software upgrades can significantly be different between versions so keep an keen eye on them.

Avoiding massive upgrades of servers can be prevented by making sure that a defrag has been ran on the system. Cleaning out old documents and data and archiving them to CD /DVD or and external hard drive. Weekly maintenance will significantly increase the life of your servers and reduce the downtimes. One final tip. Hardware failures are always on the horizon no product is perfect and not all hardware lasts forever. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GOOD BACKUPS! Ensure that you make regular test restores to ensure your disaster recovery is a success.

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