PC Speedup Tools

If you are do a lot of download large file like file movie, music and etc or copy and delete file on your windows system, that´s probably you need a time to defrag your disk. Windows save your file on disk by chunk of file; normally windows will be save your file by chunk/piece of file together and contiguously on the physical disk. Fragmentation will be happened when windows cannot allocate enough space for it, windows will same the file in others space which not continues or sequential, it´s a gap exist for one file. For the large file sometimes can happen in the many of place. A lot of fragmentation can cause slow performance for read and write. To arrange the file on the physical disk, you can use tools come from window, disk Defragment. Disk Defragment can provide arrange file on the physical disk, but you need some space for disk Defragment temporary move. Ideally, every month you need to run disk defragment or every time you are do delete or move large file on your computer disk or every time you are do clean up your windows temporary file.

Since Windows 95, Disk Defragmenter is free tools come from windows installer. You can use Disk defragment without any additional install or download. Disk defragment is safe to use without any windows technical experience, if you are ever using disk defragment provide by windows. Here the step by step to use the tool:

Thing to do before do disk defragment :

• Close any application running before do disk defragment, some of the application need temporary files which do write on the disk. Because disk defragment do re-arrange file on your disk, if not its can take a long time for disk defragment because a lot of activity write and delete file.
• Sometimes Disk Defragment can take long time for process re-arrange file on the disk especially if you are never doing disk defragment and have a lot of copy/delete/move/download files. Make sure you have time not using your computer.
• Don´t do any write disk activity like copy/download/delete files together with disk defragment.

Here how you are using disk defragment on windows 7.

Click Start->Control Panel->System and Security->Administrative Tools->Defragment your hard drive

For any windows version which included disk defragment.

You can click start->computer (Or My Computer) and right click any disk local disk (example C:\), click properties->tools->Defragment Now

Disk Defragment look and view in windows 7

You will see the disk which can do disk defragment by the tools. Disk Defragment provides two main functions for Analyze Disk and Defragment disk. You can do parallel for multi disk by hold shift key and click any disk you want do analyze or defragment.

By do analyze disk you can see how much total fragmented in % for your hard drive.

You can also using schedule to do automatically defragment by select configure schedule for windows 7.

Sometimes by period maintenance you can increase your windows performance dramatic.

If you just cleans your disk by deleting lot of file or big files, that´s good to do disk defragment also.

Did you ever ask “How come, I rare copy files to my disk suddenly my disk full”. You will be surprise even your rare copy or download big file but suddenly you get alert low disk space from windows operation system.

Temporary files.

One of that’s because temporary files using by windows operation system and windows applications. Which Temporary files using by windows for temporary used by windows because computer memory not enough to process by application request or windows system, temporary also can be used by windows when extract file for windows update which manual update (ex windows service pack) or windows automatically update. Temporary also can be used by browser as the cache and etc. Some of the temporary should be delete after application or windows system normal exist and some others will be remove but date (ex: cache). That’s all for normal situation which temporary files should be deleting when application exit or the temporary already out-dated. All of the temporary should be remove but still remain on your disk – usually call it “junk files”. There is many form of temporary files and used for. But it’s should be remove from the disk when application normal exist or the files already out-dated.

Duplicate Files.

Do you ever aware how many files duplicate on our disk? The files small or big still wasted disk space. Sometimes we are not aware when download duplicate files from internet or we are forgot where is the files reside. Unfortunately it’s not easy to find duplicate files on disk using windows operation system.

You can use Speedy PC Pro for clean all junk files and find all duplicate on your disk. You can download Speedy PC Pro by click on this.

Low Disk Effect to Windows Performance.

Nowadays, disk space is bigger and cheaper than 5 years ago. Sometimes make we are lazy to clean up our disk from un-used files. But anyway every disk still has capacity and can full! Low Disk space can effect to overall windows performance, because nowadays application running need more memory and more greedy every new versions. Memories computer are more limited compare to disk, there is why Windows Operations system used disk to accommodate. It’s one of the reasons why windows operation system alerts users when the disk space already low.

Disable Windows Notification for Low Disk Space

By default windows operation system has automatically alert users when disk space reaches some threshold. If you ever getting the alert you will know the message like the balloon with the message about low disk space, when you clicked, the clean up wizards will be lunch.

As from the Microsoft support website about the threshold for low disk space (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285107).


When free disk space reaches 200 megabytes (MB), you receive the following message for 10 seconds, once per session:

You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

When free disk space reaches 80 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every four hours, twice per session:

You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

When free disk reaches 50 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every five minutes, until free space is above 50 MB:

You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

To disable the alert you can modify windows registry using regedit.exe

• Simply navigate to KEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
• right click on the Explorer and click new DWORD(32-bit) value
• type NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
• modify the value to 1