Windows Performance: Cleaning Out your PC

At least 2 times a week do cleaning in the house (you or your partners: P). Aspirate, delete the dust, throw the empty cigarette packs and order the DVDs. But just as important as cleaning your houses is to do curatenie si in computere. Temporary files, Hibernation files, Memory Dump files. All this occupy the space of pomana in computers, in addition The perfomant decreases to them. Next we will tell you how you can escape (for free: D) of these headaches.

1. Delete Temporary Files

You have two options at hand:

Disk Cleanup Wizard (it will delete all files older than one week)

– Create a file batch (delete all files, including the newest of a week)

  • open Notepad And write the following lines:
cd C:Users%username%AppDataLocal 
rmdir /S /Q Temp
  • Name the file cleantemp.bat you save-L
  • Double-click on the file to delete temporary files

If instead of deleting unwanted files you will give error, change %username% with the user with whom you log in on Windows. For temporary files to be erased automatically every time you turn on the windows, click-right on Cleantemp.bat and create a shortcut its in the folder StartUp FROM Start Menu (ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup).

2. Disable and Delete the Hibernation Files

When the PC enters into hibernation, Windows Save the data in files located on the hard disk, so after "waking up" its PC reopen all applications that run before hibernation. The respective files occupy an space equivalent to RAM-ul. That is, if you have 512MB RAM, the files will have 512MB; If you have 2GB RAM, the files will also have 2GB.

If you do not use hibernation, you can delete these files, thus saving a space that you can occupy with more interesting things. :)

If hibernation is activated, before deleting those files, you need to disable her. Open one Command Prompt (Start Menu->Search->taste cmd->Enter) and Tut the following command

powercfg –h off

Give Enter and close CMD. Hibernation will be disabled.

cmd

To delete hibernation files, open Disk Cleanup (Using the whole search from Start Menu), select the partition on which the windows is installed and give ok. From the list displayed after scan, tick Hibernation File Cleaner And give ok again.

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3. Disable Memory Dump Files

When the PCs "crack" (they restart alone or put up to the long-to-be-known Blue Screen-uri), they create so-called dump files. Of these files you can find out which are CAUSES For which computers clarify, but usually no one checks these files. Or those who do it are very few. And the more often the computers crack, the more occupied space on the hard. : P

To disable Memory Dump files, entered Control Panel, taste Advanced In the Search Bar in the right corner and select View advanced system settings. Click on Settings from below Startup and Recovery, dispense Write debugging information drop down And press ok.

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If you want to ENABLE Memory Dump files din nou, Follow the same steps and tick the option in place Write debugging information drop down.

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