This is a typical problem with most of the computers which make them slow because in order to access one single file, the computer needs to read all the small chunks of the hard-disk.

There are may tool to defrag your hard-disk drive. In fact Windows also has in-build Hard disk defragment tools to fix this problem.

In this article I am going to review a specialized hard disk defragment tool which is a freeware tool and works effectively to defrag the files, folders, boot time defragmentation and also scheduled defrags.

UltraDefrag is a freeware tool with following features :

• system files defragmentation (registry, pagefiles…)
• ultra fast NTFS analysis
• fast defragmentation algorithm
• effective volume optimization algorithm
• safety, it can never damage processed files
• simplicity, it can be used without reading the documentation
• ability to defragment single file/directory from the context menu in Explorer
• ability to defragment additional streams attached to NTFS files
• ability to exclude any unimportant fiiles based on flexible filters
• ability to defragment files which have number of fragments above specified threshold
• ability to automatically break defragmentation when the specified time interval elapses
• well readable HTML reports
• powerful command line interface
• ability to automatically hibernate/shutdown PC after a job
• small handy scheduler
• multilingual graphical interface
• little binaries (less than 500 kb)
• portable version available which requires no installation
• native 64-bit support
• open source code licensed under GPL / Free for personal use

Ultradefrag is very light weight and effective tool, I tested it on my computer and it works like a charm.

I recommend that you use this tool to optimize your PC. It will not make it extremely fast, but will make some considerable improvements in disk access.

I also strongly recommend to optimize some startup tasks for a considerable difference in speed of your old windows computer, See this tutorial for the same – Computer is slow at start up, takes too long to boot up

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Every time you install a tool or software on your computer, it makes several entries in program files, windows registry and in Windows Startup. Not all softwares add a startup entry, but many of them do.

With time the number of startup tasks becomes large and this slows down your Windows Computer booting time. In this article I will review a tool called Startup Discoverer which can display each of the startup tasks classified by the type of startup tasks.

Fix:

You can simply download and run this portable tool called Startup Discoverer. On running this tool it will show you a set of icons, each will filter the startup programs based on the type of startup programs.

You can also print the list if you want. After analyzing the startup processes, if you feel like removing any of these tasks from startup to make your computer boot up faster, you can follow out tutorial – Computer Is Slow At Startup, Takes Too Long To Boot

Beware – Do Not Remove Any System task like Winlogon.exe etc else windows may not boot again.

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Many of my friends complain that their computer worked faster when it was new, but with time the computer has become slow. There are few reasons behind this, first is that when you compare your old computer to some new computers, you may find old one slow because of old technology hardware. The second and main reason behind the computers getting slow is because of lots of applications added to Startup or AutoStart list.

The solutions to this problem is to prevent the un-necessary applications from starting automatically each time the computer is started.

Fix:

Start up applications keep consuming precious memory and CPU even when these applications are not in use. So its better you know what applications are running and remove them from startup.

Autostart Explorer To Check Startup Applications

Autostart Explorer is a free software for personal use. Download Autostart Explorer here and simply run this software tool to test which applications are there in Startup list. It will list all the applications that are started automatically, including the most common registry entries.

You can check all the softwares in by running the tool as shown above. If you feel there are many entries which are useless or such softwares which can be removed from startup, you can remove the. By removing these applications these will still be there in your computer, but will use memory and CPU resources when you run them. To remove the un-necessary applications from startup list, see this tutorial on Removing Un-necessary Applications using Autoruns tool.

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