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Optimization Tools
System optimization tools are useful
to increase the performance of the computer. There are varieties
of tools available over internet to optimize the system
performance. But the optimizations are for various types of speed
degradation. The reasons for speed degradation in a system are
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Boot time loading services and
start-up,
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Unwanted entries in registry,
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Duplication of files,
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Temporary files,
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Fragmentation,
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Device driver incompatibility,
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Main memory fragmentation etc,
Let us now discuss each of these
topic and the tools available in the market and the risk over the
optimization.
Boot time loading services:
The services are basic daemon process
in background and help the operating system to be user friendly.
The start-up programs are the programs that load it when the
system starts up. To see the programs in start-up and the boot
time loading services Microsoft recommends
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx
This software gives the details of
start-up and boot time services. The user must know well about the
necessary and unwanted start-up in the list and disable the right
choice. Disabling mandatory services may lead to system crash. So
it is better to leave all the Microsoft corporation services and
other application, database server services. Apart from these
services the user may disable unwanted services and start-up
programs from the system.
Registry cleaning:
Registry is the place where all
software and other component registration are entered. So many
invalid entries in the registry may slowdown the system
performance. There are several tools available to clean the
registry entries. Registry Mechanic is one of the best software
tools to heal the registry. The other software such as clean my
registry, registry defrag, registry wizard are available as
freeware.
Duplication of files:
Duplicate files may fill up the disk
space that leads to the degradation of system performance. This
can be overcome by searching the duplication of files by manual
search or by using special software which will search for
duplication of files and ask us for action to do on it. Some of
the software are Duplicate Finder, NoClone search for duplicate
files in the system and ask for action.
Temporary files:
Temporary files are the scratch files
which are used by the system during some process like
installation, and other operations. Sometimes these files are left
in the system as junk files. These files can be easily found with
its extension *.tmp and some other extension. These files also
occupy the disk space unnecessarily and slow down the system
performance. Some of the tools used to cure this type of file
replication are system cleaner, Cclean, 4Diskclean, and Advanced
System Optimizer.
Defragmentation:
Defragmentation is the process of
reorganizing the file clusters scattered in the disk. These file
fragmentation causes the disk head to move track to track and
between platters for single file access which increase the seek
time of the file access. So reorganizing the file clusters reduces
the file seek time increases the system performance. Windows has
its own build-in defragment utility which gives best result.
Diskeeper is the commercial version of defragment utility which
gives good performance.
Device driver incompatibility:
The system response depends on the
compatibility of the device driver we use. This compatibility is
verified by some software which will guide us which driver causing
problem. The best way to increase the system performance is by
updating the device driver regularly.
Memory utility:
Like file fragmentation the memory is
also fragmented due to frequent loading and unloading of programs
into memory. This also reduces the performance of the system. The
recovery of memory from such fragmentation is called memory
compaction. There are varieties of tools available for memory
optimization. They are memory optimizer, RAM booster, RAM
optimizer etc, compacts the memory and increases the system
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