This is the third and final chapter in the Farm Ville Speed Up Series. Here we will talk about your computers optimization Itself.
For people who missed out on the previous chapters, Following are the links for the same.
PC related Optimization:
These steps are for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.
These steps will bring very minimal improvement however will certainly bring a lot of improvement in your pc’s overall performance.
Update Flash Player and JAVA to the latest versions
Remove temporary files
Run once a week
Your computer can pick up and store temporary files when you're looking at webpages and even when you're working on files in programs, such as Microsoft Word. Over time, these files will slow your computer's performance. You can use the Windows Disk Cleanup screen to rid your computer of these deadbeat files.
To run Disk Cleanup:
Windows 7 users:
1. In the Start menu, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup. Disk Cleanup will automatically begin to scan your disk for files you can delete.
Note:
If the Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection dialog box appears, select the hard disk drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
2. Click the Disk Cleanup tab, and then select the check boxes for the files you want to delete.
3. When you finish selecting the files you want to delete, click OK, and then, to confirm the operation, click Delete files. Disk Cleanup then removes all unnecessary files from your computer.
The More Options tab is available when you choose to clean files from all users on the computer.
Windows Vista users:
1. In the Start menu, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup.
2. In the Disk Cleanup Options dialog box, choose whether you want to clean up your own files only or all of the files on the computer.
3. If the Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection dialog box appears, select the hard disk drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
4. Click the Disk Cleanup tab, and then select the check boxes for the files you want to delete.
5. When you finish selecting the files you want to delete, click OK, and then, to confirm the operation, click Delete files. Disk Cleanup then removes all unnecessary files from your computer. This may take awhile.
The More Options tab is available when you choose to clean files from all users on the computer.
Windows XP users:
1. In the Start menu, click My Computer.
2. In the My Computer dialog box, right-click the drive you wish to check for errors (for most of us, this is the C: drive, unless you have multiple drives on your computer), and then click Properties.
3. In the Properties dialog box, click Disk Cleanup.
The Disk Cleanup button in the Local Disk Properties dialog box
4. Disk Cleanup will calculate how much space you can free up on your hard drive. After its scan, the Disk Cleanup dialog box reports a list of files that you can remove from your computer, as shown. This scan can take a while depending on how many files you have lying around on your computer.
Choose files to delete in Disk Cleanup
5. After the scan is complete, in the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click View Filesto see what Disk Cleanup will discard (if you accept the suggestions). You can select and deselect check boxes to define what you wish to keep or discard. When you're ready, click OK.
6. You can also select the More Options tab within the Disk Cleanup screen to look for software programs you don't use much anymore. You then have the choice to remove these unused programs.
Rearrange your data
Run once a month
Don't be shocked, but your computer can get sloppy. It often breaks files side by side to increase the speed of access and retrieval. However, as files are updated, your computer saves these updates on the largest space available on the hard drive, often found far away from the other adjacent sectors of the file.
The result: a fragmented file. Fragmented files cause slower performance. This is because your computer must now search for all of the file's parts. In other words, your computer knows where all the pieces are, but putting them back together in the correct order—when you need them—can slow your computer down.
Windows includes a Disk Defragmenter program to piece all your files back together again (if only Humpty Dumpty had been so lucky) and make them available to open more quickly.
To run the Disk Defragmenter:
1. In the Start menu, click My Computer.
2. In the My Computer dialog box, right-click the drive you wish to check for errors (for most of us this is the C: drive, unless you have multiple drives on your computer), and then click Properties.
3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Tools tab, and then in the Defragmentation section, click Defragment Now….
The Defragment Now button in the Tools tab
4. In the Disk Defragmenter dialog box, select the Volume (most likely your Local Disk C:) at the top of the screen, and then click Analyze (disk).
5. After analyzing your computer, the Disk Defragmenter displays a message stating whether you should defragment your computer. Press Defragment (disk) to clean up your computer if necessary. The Disk Defragmenter will reorganize files by placing them together and sorting them by program and size, as shown here.
Disk defragmentation in progress
Make Internet Explorer run faster
Advanced system settings
The next tab Advanced offers the possibility to change the Virtual memory with the Change button:
To prevent frequent changes to the size of the virtual memory, you probably better fix the custom size and the maximum at the same level. Mostly, there is no need to set the virtual memory higher then 1 GB.
If you are already have a lot of RAM-memory, it can be more optimal to disable the virtual memory. You can change the virtual memory (or change it to another partition) with the button Change. Don't forget to press Set to make changes permanent.
In this case, the location of the virtual memory is moved to the F:-partition.
