4 tips to prevent the hard drive life from being affected by the Vista system

I would like to share with you the factors and operating skills related to hard disk protection in Windows Vista today. I hope to help you.

Some features and services in Vista have a great impact on the hard drive life. We can use or disable them less.

　　1. Volume Shadow Copy Service

Volume Shadow CopyService (VSS). VSS supports fast data backup and recovery. It adds the snapshot function to the Volume management module, on this basis, you can create an Image based on Point-In-Time to quickly back up and restore data. From this, we can see that VSS is an operation that reads and writes data to the hard disk at a high throughput, which will undoubtedly increase the hard disk burden, and will affect the hard disk service life over time.

Disable: Press "Windows key R" and enter "services. msc, press enter, open the "service" dialog box, and find "Volume Shadow Copy" in the right window ". Double-click "VolumeShadow Copy" and change "Auto" to "disabled" by default in the subsequent window.

　　2. Compress and index files

Some may have questions: Will compressed files and index files hurt the hard disk? Yes, it does affect the service life of the hard disk. Don't worry about the reason. When you see the article, you will naturally understand it.

Disable: To cancel File compression and indexing, right-click the corresponding disc drive letter (or file) and confirm that the current tab is "regular" in the dialog box that appears ", then, deselect "compress this driver to save disk space" and "Create an index for this driver to search faster ". If you have installed a dual system (such as Windows Vista and Windows XP), because the partition where XP is located is a primary active partition, the Vista system does not have the two option on the shortcut menu.

　　3. System search

System search is actually associated with the File compression and index mentioned above. When the system compresses and indexes a large volume of files, it needs to read and write frequently and with a large amount of data to the hard disk. After these operations are completed, when the user performs a search operation, the system will find the matching target file from the compressed file and the indexed file again, which is about equal to the "inverse operation" of the hard disk ".

For the above analysis, we recommend that you cancel the system index file search to avoid "seemingly organized" searches on the hard disk each time.

Disable: Open the resource manager and click "Tools"> "Folder Options" (if you cannot see the "Tools" column, press the "Alt" key ), in the displayed dialog box, switch to the Search tab. In the default settings of Vista, the file name and content are searched only when an index exists ), vista only compares whether the file name contains search items. This will undoubtedly reduce the search efficiency and increase the hard disk burden.

　　4. Disk sorting and System Restoration

The damage caused by System Restoration and disk organization to the hard disk is not in Windows Vista. However, in Windows Vista, this problem still exists and cannot be ignored.

Frequent disk sorting is harmful to hard disks. Disk sorting requires underlying analysis of the hard disk to determine which data can be moved and which data cannot be moved, and then sort the files by category. Before the hard disk data structure is formally arranged, it keeps reading and writing data to other clusters at random and sorts the data back to the appropriate location, these operations are seriously affecting the service life of the hard disk.

The steps for disabling the automatic sorting of the disk fragment program are as follows:

Choose "start"> "All Programs"> "attachments"> "System Tools"> "disk fragment programs", and then click "Run as planned" in the window that appears.

Windows Vista disk fragment tools include two major updates. The first is the easy-to-use and clear display interface of the disk fragment status, and the second is the automatic disk sorting enabled by default, the specific time is one o'clock P.M. every Wednesday. If it is in the boot status, the system will automatically try to arrange files so that your system can run faster. This is a symbolic feature of Microsoft's operating system.

To disable System Restoration, follow these steps:

Right-click "computer"> "properties"> "system protection" on the system desktop, and then restore and close the system based on the information in the dialog box.

However, the use of other related software, such as BT downloading and downloading cache, will directly affect the service life of the hard disk. In addition, the ReadyBoost function in Windows Vista "said" also affects hard drive life.