Eenvoudige manieren om uw prestaties van de computer - sparen harde schijfruimte te verhogen!

Gepost op 11 April, 2007 in 8:56 p.m.

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Hebt u een computer die geen reusachtige harde aandrijving heeft, maar slaat u heel wat beelden, video's, of andere grote dossiers op die uw vrije ruimte laag krijgen? Zodra uw computer op harde schijfruimte laag wordt, beginnen de normale processen te vertragen en uw computer zal moeizaam langzaam in werking stellen. Er zijn natuurlijk veel andere redenen waarom uw computer langzaam zou kunnen lopen, maar deze post is specifiek voor zij die weten zij plotseling op schijfruimte lopen.

Zo in plaats van het moeten dossiers schrappen of dingen weg verplaatsen naar stokken USB of externe harde aandrijving, kunt u aan vrij wat ruimte op uw computer omhoog eerst proberen die door nutteloze tijdelijke dossiers of systeemprocessen kan worden opgenomen. Er zijn gewoonlijk drie grote ruimte „moordenaars“ in Vensters die door gebrek aan de ruimte van de varkensschijf worden geplaatst en zouden moeten worden beteugeld zodra u kunt!

1. Recycleer Bak - Waarom oogst op de KringloopBak eh?? Nooit-irriteert en soms reddingsafval kan zit enkel daar het wachten op ons om het te vertellen wat om net te doen? Goed, neemt het ook heel wat ruimte op geen die het vergt. De kringloopbak gebruikt een percentage van uw harde aandrijving om geschrapte dossiers op te slaan. Nochtans, wordt dit percentage geplaatst door gebrek bij een zeer hoog aantal en beëindigt omhoog verspillend heel wat ruimte.

Hier is hoe te ruimtemoordenaar #1 bevestigen. Eerste klikken op de KringloopBak op uw Desktop met de rechtermuisknop aan en klikken Eigenschappen.

Voor het Globale lusje, kunt u kiezen Gebruik één die voor alle aandrijving plaatst of Vorm onafhankelijk aandrijving . It’s usually better to configure the recycle bin for each drive independently since it’s based on the size of the drive, so 5% of a 50GB hard drive is much bigger than 5% of a 20GB hard drive. At the top you’ll see tabs for each partition you have on your computer.

By default, the slider bar is usually set at something like 12%, which is very high! Unless you are deleting huge files, there will never be a need for a recycle bin that size. A good size is from anywhere between 3 to 5% of your hard drive. Drag the slider bar and you just saved yourself a good amount of space, especially if you have large hard drives. My computer is set to 1% and I’ve never had a problem recovering a file from the bin!

2. Turn Off System Restore - Another handy little service that can get your computer back up and running sometimes, but again takes up a lot of extra space that is not needed. Also, System Restore only recovers Windows files, not any of your data. So having System Restore enabled on any other drive other than your C drive (where Windows is installed) is completely useless.

To fix this one, right click on My Computer and choose Properties.

Click on the System Restore tab.

As you can see from my computer, I have a C and a D drive of which system restore has been turned off on D. Again, this is because System Restore does not protect your data, it only protects Windows system files, so you don’t need it for any other drive other than the main system drive. If you click on the C drive and choose settings, you’ll get the dialog box to set the amount of space.

For system restore, a value between 2% to 4% will be fine. The default 12% wastes loads and loads of space! I have mine set to 2% and even with that, I still have over 10 restore points to recover from if I needed to.

3. Delete temporary Internet Explorer files - Ahhh…if you like to browse the Internet hardcore like I do, then you MUST clean out your temporary files every once in a while or else it will take up lots of space. And again, as with the Recycle Bin and System Restore, we can set the max size for the amount of storage for temporary Internet files. And again, it’s set really high by default!

Open IE and go to Tools, Internet Options.

On the options dialog, under Browsing History, click on Settings.

Now here you can type in a value for the amount of space to be used!! When I first did mine, it was set to 1GB!!! So I had 1 whole GB of storage being used by temporary files that were never going to be used again anyway! Change that value to something very small like 25MB or even less if you like. After doing this, you should click Delete under the Browsing History section and delete all of the current data there.

4. Actually, there is a 4th thing you can do to get some disk space back! If you’re like most people, you probably use StandBy mode on your computer by simply closing the cover or pressing the power button. No one really uses Hibernate mode because why use that when you can use StandBy, which is easier and a lot faster! I personally have never used it and don’t think I ever will, but it takes up a good amount of space on your computer.

Go to Start, Control Panel and choose Power Options. If you are in Category view, click Switch to Classic View at the top left. Then click on the Hibernate tab in the Power Options dialog:

Make sure it’s unchecked. The hibernate feature takes up the amount of space equal to your RAM, so in my case I was wasting another 1GB of space!!!

Now you hopefully just saved yourself a couple of GB’s worth of space! Now you can last a little bit longer before having to move stuff off. If your computer is still running slow, check out my other articles on how to increase your computer’s performance in the Table of Contents at the top of the post!

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One Response to “Simple ways to increase your computer’s performance - Save hard disk space!”

  1. Richard FDisk said on : August 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    Another way I’ve used to save space is to, “Squish” files
    (this can be done natively in XP & up, for the older OS’s you need WinZip or some file “compression” utility)

    1) find a folder with a ton of my files
    2) rt click or hit the “context menu” key on the keyboard
    3) select “new”
    4) “compressed zipped folder”
    5) name it to whatever the content will be ie BMP’s.zip, JPG’S.zip or just “ZippedUp.zip”
    6) double click it or click and hit enter
    7) a new “Explorer” window opens
    8) go back to the other window and select all the files in it
    9) rt click and hold while dragging the files to the other window
    10) a little context menu asking if you want to copy or move the files, select move.

    this creates a “single” file containing all those files within it thus saving wasted clusters for files that don’t use an exact cluster size ie
    4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, etc.
    if your files aren’t these sizes they waste space.

    the good thing about the native XP “compressed zipped folders” is that the files in it are availible to open just by opening the folder as you would any folder in explorer and opening the file or draging the file to your application, and for the others like WinZip etc. you need to open it first but hey if it saves space it’s still worth it.

    :Edit(add on)
    Also, defrag the drive after “creating” and moving the files into the “compressed zipped folder”

    Cheers
    ◄RfD►


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