Windows hard drive tips

Windows is not only further enhanced in terms of Internet access, software usage, and resource optimization, but also greatly improved hard disk management. Hard Disk performance is the key to system performance. Therefore, Windows 2000 has made full considerations in this regard and provided sufficient optimization support. Hard Disk Management in Windows 2000 is much better than Windows 9x, so you can achieve the best effect if you use it properly.

1. correctly analyze the hard disk

When the computer is used for a long time, it will inevitably slow down. One of the reasons is that the disk needs to be sorted out, but it is hard to determine when it needs to be sorted out. Windows2000 provides you with an analysis tool, let you know at a glance. In "start" * "program" * "attachment" * "System Tools", you can find "disk sorting tool ", however, this disk sorting tool from Win98 is already quite different from its predecessors. The display is simple but external. It can intelligently determine whether your disk needs to be organized: select a disk and click "analyze". After a burst of drive sound, the disk sorting tool will pop up a window showing you whether the disk needs to be organized.

2. Increase Hard Drive Speed

Nowadays, computer enthusiasts use much larger hard disks than in the past, with 10 GB and 20 GB of hard disks. As far as I know, large hard disks generally support the DMA working mode. If you are sure that your hard disk supports the DMA mode, you can replace the traditional PIO mode with the DMA mode, this will increase the transmission speed of the hard disk and reduce your CPU usage to improve your system performance. Follow these steps: right-click "my computer" * "manage" * "Device Manager" * "ide ata/ATAPI controller" * "Primary IDE Channel" * "attribute" * "Advanced Settings ", in transmission mode, select "DMA.

3. Hard Drive Weight Loss

During the running of your Windows 2000 operating system, such *. tmp ,*. bak ,*. log ,*. old ,*. txt files. These files can be deleted safely. If you do not like the wallpaper that comes with Windows 2000, you can also put * under the WINNT directory *. the bmp file is permanently deleted.

Files in the WINNTtemp directory of your Windows 2000 operating system can also be deleted, which are all redundant files left by the application software installation process. Another point is the small files in your hard disk. Please concentrate them as much as possible, and then combine them into a large file with a compression software such as WINZIP to reduce disk space waste.

4. Use Quick compression to lose weight

You can save disk space by compressing content that does not require high loading speeds. For example, some files or folders that are not frequently used, programs that are not frequently used, and data that you do not prepare for full archiving. In resource manager, right-click a file or folder and select "properties" to open the file Properties dialog box. On the "General" tab, click "advanced, in the open "Advanced properties" dialog box, select the "compress content to save disk space" check box.

5. Set hard disk write Cache

Windows 2000 can provide the write Cache for hard disks to solve the "bottleneck" problem of Hard Disk Writing Performance and speed up hard disk access. You can set the write cache by right-clicking the "my computer" icon on the desktop, selecting "properties", and then selecting "Device Manager" on the "hardware" tab in the pop-up window ", select "Sort devices by type" in the "View" menu, expand "Disk Drivers", find the hard Disk you want to set, and double-click it to go to its attribute setting interface, select the Enable write cache option in the disk Properties tab. Set all hard disks in the system according to this method, and then restart the system to make it take effect. This setting is simple, but the effect is obvious, which can effectively enhance the disk and system performance.

6. Fully Manage computers

A single desktop tool can be used to manage local and remote computers. The tree on the left provides three categories of control: System Tools, storage, server applications, and services. Each category is further divided into multiple sub-classes, provides interfaces for almost all aspects of computer control. Therefore, you can view and modify most of the computer's attributes.

For example, with "Storage" * "disk management", you can learn about attributes and CD-ROM operating conditions such as the primary partition, logical partition, and active state of the hard disk, go to the "System Tools" * "system information" option and have a detailed understanding of the hardware configuration and usage in the local machine.

Now you no longer need to search for a piece of information or use a system function and navigate through layers of menus and various icons. Through this integrated management tool, you can easily find what you need.

7. Fixed hard disk errors

By using the Windows 2000 Error Check tool, you can find the file system errors and bad sectors on the hard disk. Open "my computer" and select the local disk to be checked. Click properties on the File menu, and then click the Tools tab. Click "Start Check" under "error check", and select the "scan and try to recover bad sectors" check box under "disk check options.

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