Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Add A Little Speed to Your PC

Here are a few easy tips (in addition to the periodic maintenance in a separate entry made earlier) that you can perform periodically to keep your computer humming along:

  1. Open "My Computer".
  2. Right-click on the C: drive.
  3. Left click on "Properties".
  4. Uncheck the box at the bottom of the screen to dis-allow the Indexing service.
  5. Click on the "Tools" tab.
  6. Click on the "Error Checking" button.
  7. There are two boxes for error checking. Click to place a check in both.
  8. Click "Start", then "Yes" to the prompt".
  9. Restart your computer.
  10. Your computer will run the two routines you checked in step #7 above.


Windows has a built-in disk degragmenter, but it's marginally effective. Below are links to two free utilities I've used that will defragment your disk much faster and oprimize your hard drive more effectively than Windows "Disk Defragmenter. I'm more partial to the first one listed, although both are good products in their own right, and free, to boot!

  1. Auslogics Disk Defrag http://www.auslogics.com/en/software (They also make a product called Auslogics Registry Defrag that is free and effective.
  2. PerfectDisk 2008 http://www.download.com/PerfectDisk/3000-2094_4-10349543.html
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    Thanks for the tip! Love to know these things so I can keep things moving on home and school computers. It helps us to accomplish goals that we have with our students because computers have issues that disconnect us from completing what we set out to accomplish.

    I need to get back to Google Docs that your recommened a while back so I can put some docs on line. My goal on this would be to link them to my portal if that is possible or maybe it would be better to have a website. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. I just have many docs that are related to our adopted text. Many of us teachers in the county have spoken about sharing these or sharing the work load because we cannot possibly all work up everything that would benefit our students. Any suggestions bkhaney@access.k12.wv.us
    THANKS
    Barb Haney

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  2. Charlie PitroloJanuary 28, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    Barb, there is a way to link from your portal to your online documents. Did you know that your Google Docs can be published as web pages? That would probably be the simplest solution. Here's a sample of one of my Google Docs that I published as a web page for this example. All you have to do is do the same, then publish the resulting URL in your portal.

    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9tpff7_47hkv6wqdf

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