Optimization Tools
Optimization tools:
System optimization tools are useful to increase the performance of the computer. There are varieties of tools available over internet to optimize the system performance. But the optimizations are for various types of speed degradation. The reasons for speed degradation in a system are
- Boot time loading services and start-up,
- Unwanted entries in registry,
- Duplication of files,
- Temporary files,
- Fragmentation,
- Device driver incompatibility,
- Main memory fragmentation etc,
Let us now discuss each of these topic and the tools available in the market and the risk over the optimization.
Boot time loading services:
The services are basic daemon process in background and help the operating system to be user friendly. The start-up programs are the programs that load it when the system starts up. To see the programs in start-up and the boot time loading services Microsoft recommends
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx
This software gives the details of start-up and boot time services. The user must know well about the necessary and unwanted start-up in the list and disable the right choice. Disabling mandatory services may lead to system crash. So it is better to leave all the Microsoft corporation services and other application, database server services. Apart from these services the user may disable unwanted services and start-up programs from the system.
Registry cleaning:
Registry is the place where all software and other component registration are entered. So many invalid entries in the registry may slowdown the system performance. There are several tools available to clean the registry entries. Registry Mechanic is one of the best software tools to heal the registry. The other software such as clean my registry, registry defrag, registry wizard are available as freeware.
Duplication of files:
Duplicate files may fill up the disk space that leads to the degradation of system performance. This can be overcome by searching the duplication of files by manual search or by using special software which will search for duplication of files and ask us for action to do on it. Some of the software are Duplicate Finder, NoClone search for duplicate files in the system and ask for action.
Temporary files:
Temporary files are the scratch files which are used by the system during some process like installation, and other operations. Sometimes these files are left in the system as junk files. These files can be easily found with its extension *.tmp and some other extension. These files also occupy the disk space unnecessarily and slow down the system performance. Some of the tools used to cure this type of file replication are system cleaner, Cclean, 4Diskclean, and Advanced System Optimizer.
Defragmentation:
Defragmentation is the process of reorganizing the file clusters scattered in the disk. These file fragmentation causes the disk head to move track to track and between platters for single file access which increase the seek time of the file access. So reorganizing the file clusters reduces the file seek time increases the system performance. Windows has its own build-in defragment utility which gives best result. Diskeeper is the commercial version of defragment utility which gives good performance.
Device driver incompatibility:
The system response depends on the compatibility of the device driver we use. This compatibility is verified by some software which will guide us which driver causing problem. The best way to increase the system performance is by updating the device driver regularly.
Memory utility:
Like file fragmentation the memory is also fragmented due to frequent loading and unloading of programs into memory. This also reduces the performance of the system. The recovery of memory from such fragmentation is called memory compaction. There are varieties of tools available for memory optimization. They are memory optimizer, RAM booster, RAM optimizer etc, compacts the memory and increases the system performance.
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