There was a woodsman who had a new axe.
The first day he was able to chop down 20 trees.
With each passing day, he worked longer and harder, while chopping down fewer trees.
A friend wandered by and suggested, "why don't you sharpen your axe?"
The woodsman replied, "I am too busy. I have got to chop down more trees!"
Let stop for a moment, collect our thoughts and sharpen our axes.
First Question: Are you going to reformat or just want to speed up your PC?
If you want to reformat your PC. Follow the step below.
1. Format your PC into 2/3 Partition. 1st for OS (10 gb), 2nd for Programs, 3rd for Data.
2. Install your OS - Windows XP Professional SP3
3. Install NOD32 AntiVirus to protect your PC from Internet Intruder/Virus.
4. Go online and update all the critical Windows updates.
5. Install your drivers.
Now basically your PC is a basic clean OS.
The following steps is to teach you how to speed up your PC.
1. Go http://www.liutilities.com/ , download SpeedUpMyPC 2009 & RegistryBooster 2009.
2. Install them.
3. Learn how to use them.
4. After running the 2 programs, it will ask you to restart your PC.
5. Now your PC should work much faster,as in your PC startup/shutdown time got cut short, yr OS response faster to your request.
The following step below is to teach you how to maintain your PC so your PC will run as fast as new even after few years time.
1. Install CCleaner 2.16.830 & Defraggler 1.07.124.
2. Run CCleaner is for Disk Cleanup which will increase your PC disk space by deleting useless stuffs. It is also for fixing issues in Registry Editor. You can use CCleaner to uninstall programs too.
3. Run Defraggler is for defragmentation which is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. If you have too much fragmentation in your file systems, your PC will slow down.
4. Run SpeedUpMyPC 2009 & RegistryBooster 2009 once in awhile also.
The following programs below is freeware that I highly recommended for friends to use.
You can download all programs below at http://www.filehippo.com/
1. Orbit Downloader - This downloader help to download all the setup file on internet, real fast.
2. Web Browsers - Firefox 3.0.6 & Internet Explorer 8.0 RC1 & Flash Player 10.0.12.36
3. File Sharing - uTorrent 1.8.2 Build 14458 (I only promote copyright free and legal file sharing)
4. CD & DVD Tools - ImgBurn 2.4.20 is a very easy to use CD/DVD Burner & DAEMON Tools Lite 4.30.3 - For mounting ISO image
5. Office - Adobe Reader 9.0 & OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Final
6. Compression - WinZip 12.0.8252 & WinRAR 3.80
7. Windows Live Messenger 2009 (14.0.8064)
8. Drivers - Directx 9.0c (Nov 08) , Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0.12 , .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP 1
9. Audio & Video - iTunes 8.0.2.20 , Windows Media Player 11 , VLC Media Player 0.9.8a , K-Lite Codec Pack 4.62(Full) , DivX Codec , Real Alternative 1.90 , QuickTime Alternative 2.8.0
10. Cleaning and Tweaking - CCleaner 2.16.830 , Recuva 1.23.389 (for data recovery), Defraggler 1.07.124 , Autoruns 9.39 , Process Explorer 11.33 , Tweak UI 2.1
11. Imaging - Adobe Photoshop CS3 , The Gimp 2.6.5 , Google Earth 5.0.11337 Beta , Google SketchUp 7.0.8657
Thank for spending your time reading.
Currently I am providing free servicing of laptop/PC (mainly softwares, but I know hardware troubleshooting too) to friends & relative only. To perfect my skills in IT solving and put what I have learn into good use. If you feel paiseh..you can always treat me lunch or dinner.
In future, I might learn to do harddisk recovering.
If you have any problems in your laptop & PC...feel free to contact me.
