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Entries Tagged as 'Hard Drives'

Virtual Memory Part 1

September 2nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

Howdy and welcome back to another exciting and fun filled adventure of The Weekly Geek!
In this adventure I want to discuss a little about Virtual Memory. No, we are not talking about Dungeons and Dragons or how you remember your past, what we are speaking of is a section of your hard drive that is [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Defragmentation step by step guide

September 24th, 2004 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to this weeks fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek!
This week I am going to go more in-depth on how to run a basic cleanup of your hard drive, you can run these steps on a Zip or floppy drive too.
When cleaning up your computer to make it run more efficiently [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Manually running Windows Disk Clean

December 5th, 2003 · Comments Off

Hello, Howdy and Good Day! Welcome back to the ever fun and exciting world of The Weekly Geek!
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, I am thankful for you, the faithful readers of The Weekly Geek and even more so for the soldiers that are away from loved ones protecting the freedom of citizens of [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Auto Defragmentation of Window XP

November 21st, 2003 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to The Weekly Geek!
This week we are going to cover how to automatically have your system run the Defragmentation program that comes with Windows.
In previous versions of Windows, the task scheduler would open and run Disk Defragmenter. But in Windows XP, it simply opens Disk Defragmenter’s window. It does not actually [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Software · Speeding Up

Auto Drefragmenting your Hard Drive

November 14th, 2003 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to The Weekly Geek!
In this weeks exciting and fun-filled edition we are going to have the computer automatically defragment the hard drive. Over a month ago we went over how to manually defragment the hard drive and what defragmentation is. As a quick overview, defragmentation is putting all of the parts [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Software · Speeding Up