Enhance Hard Disk And PC Performance By Disk Defragmentation

You might be saving data over and over again in the hard disk. After a certain period of time you notice that the speed and efficiency is not as good as it was initially. This might happen due to several reasons. One of them is the fragmentation of the files. The problem can be easily resolved with freeware software Puran Defrag.

Puran Defrag is a software of 2.4 MB only. It is a very good tool which can defragment your drives and enhance the performance of your computer. It provides you a variety of options to carry out the process the way you want to. You can apply the settings to automatically defragment or in a defined way.

The tool is user friendly and can be used easily. As you can see the above snapshot, it shows the all the drives. You can select any one of them and then analyze or defrag it. It will show the result in two formats:

• Cluster Map: represents which part is actually fragmented.
• Last Report: shows the complete details of the last process.

The results are shown as shown in the snapshot below.

Based on the analysis, you can select to defrag the drive or some particular folders as per the requirement. There is the option for Boot Time Defrag also. And you can choose to shutdown your system after the defragmentation. The Low Priority option will set the defragmentation of the files later on if they are presently in use. This is manage the on-going tasks.

There are some additional operations also which helpful in improving the efficiency and speed of the hard disk. It also serve the purpose of excluding some files while defrag of the whole drive. You can select them manually, browse them or define a particular size range within which defragmentation is not required.

You can also carry this process with the help of UltraDefrag Tool. There are large number of options which will make the tasks easy, simple and as per requirement. They are as shown in the snapshot below.

You can select the drives you want to automatic defragment. Use the check box for various options. Mention the way, you want to carry out and choose the defragmentation. It can be based upon the screensavers, if system is idle, based upon day and date. Now, you do not have to check the drive again and again.

It is compatible with Windows XP/2003/ Vista/ 2008/7. You can download the free version which is free for personal use.

Completely Remove All Data From Hard Disk Before Discarding or Recycling

Are you considering an upgrader to your computer’s Hard disk? Are you giving away your old hard disk for recycling? If yes, you might be accidentally giving away a lot of private information, confidential data and financial information in the hands of strangers. The information might be misused or leaked, even worse, you may fall prey to identity theft because someone can steal information on your discarded hard disk drive !

Before you give away your hard disk in exchange of an upgrade, or for recycling, make sure you are not doing anything to risk your. In this post, I share a tool with you which will help remove every bit of Data off your hard disk before you abandon it.

Darik’s Boot and Nuke or DBAN tool is a bootable image which you can download and use it to boot your PC. This tool can securely wipe the hard disks of most computers. It can automatically and completely delete all the content of the hard disk that it can detect. This tool is apt for emergency data destruction.

This tool is completely free for personal and business use. Before you use this tool, you much understand that all the data on the hard disk will be permanently removed by this tool. You must take any backup of your important data to come external disk or storage before you use the tool. Also, when using this tool, make sure that only that hard disk is connected to the computer which you intend to wipe. If there are more than one hard disks connected to the computer, you may accidentally select the wrong drive which may mean a disaster for your hard drive data !

The official website offers you an ISO file which you can burn to a CD or DVD and use the same disk to boot your computer. When you boot the PC using this disk, it will take you forward using a text based menu on a blue screen as seen above. Choose the options you like to use.

So First u download "DBAN Download" software

Free Hard Disk Space Effectively With DiskMax

Most of the new Operating Systems like Windows Vista And Windows 7 consume good amount of hard disk space. To add to it, heavy installation programs like games and photo-editing tools, multimedia players etc which many of us have also consume disk space. Not only this, Internet browser’s cache, temporary files, temporary installation files, restore data, recycle bin data etc. all add up to the space consumed on the hard disk.

Although there is an inbuilt Windows Disk Cleanup feature which can free most of the space occupied by the unused and unusable stuff that computer can live without, yet it does not provide a comprehensive cleaning which can clean a lot more space than what it does.

In this article I am going to review a free and highly effective disk space cleaning utility called DiskMax which provides powerful and advanced options to free up several GB of disk space in some cases. It cleaned up around 4GB space of my hard disk.

DiskMax is a powerful Disk Cleanup tool which works in several modes, which are – Quick , Standard , Detailed And Complete. Each of these mode has different level of disk cleaning. I tested the standard one.

When you launch it, it gives you a start screen like the one above, select the type of cleanup you want. Depending on which type you select and how much stuff it clean, it may take several minutes to do the job. It took about 15 minutes on my desktop machine.

The standard scan is very comprehensive and will ask you your preferences related to cleaning and will remember them so that you don’t have to set them again and again. Below are a few screenshots of many steps it goes through to ask your preferences.

It asked me option to clean Microsoft Office Install Files

It asked me option to clean Recycle Bin Files

It asked me option to clean Firefox Cache, Firefox History, Crash reports etc.

It took a while to report crash reports.

It asked me option to scan the user accounts for any unused files.

DiskMax cleans up Windows Crash reposts, Health Stat Data sets, unused installer files, repair information, windows logs, reinstall backups, tem folders etc.

Below is the report which you can see cleaned about 4GB disk space on ,my hard disk by cleaning about 5400 unused files.

The tool is compatible with all version of Windows 32bit and 64bit OS up to Windows 7. You can install it and use it once a month or few weeks to reclaim the disk space which otherwise remains occupied with useless stuff.

Why Computer Hangs?

1 Overheating of processor / Motherboard. If the cooling fan is faulty, the processor gets heated up and ceases to work beyond a particular temperature.

2 Faulty hard disk drive.Hard disc problems also hangs the computers in case the important Operating System files needed to keep the computer running, become in-accessible.

3 May it be virus

4 OS or software Problem

Solutions : To Fix the PC hangs (computer hang problem),you need to follow two steps:

Step1: Check that the cooling fans on the processor is working properly or not. So ensure that the fan is working fine and is clean. If not, then get the fan replaced. Also check for the additional fans on your computer casing/cabinet(if any).

Step2: To Fix this, run a disk scan which checks for disc errors and fixes the bad sectors (some examples are scandisk and check disk utilities in windows). If there are bad sectors which can not be repaired, then you need to replace your hard disc.

step 3: Check ur Antivirus Update and scanning

Step 4: If, still ur problem continuously Format and reinstall ur OS and software

Tip for enhanced performance: Once there are no bad sectors and the disc scan is complete, do a de-fragmentation of your hard disc partition(this may take long time), it will help the computer to access files easily and computer runs better(also fast in some cases).
These three steps will fix your computer hangs considerably.

Computer Restarting Trouble

In this post we will look into those reasons and the possible solutions to fix computer restart problem

• Computer restart due to overheating
• Computer restart due to faulty RAM
• Computer restart due to faulty Hard-disk
• Computer restart due to overheating up of hard-disk
• Computer restart on attaching some external USB device
• Computer restart due to other hardware problem
• Some software causing operating system crash causes computer restart