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Entries Tagged as 'Hard Drives'

Disk Clean combined with the Scheduled Task feature

September 26th, 2003 · Comments Off

Welcome back to another fun filled adventure with The Weekly Geek! Several weeks ago we went over how to manually have Windows clean up your hard drive, and the last two weeks we have gone over how to have Windows automatically check you disk for errors. This week we are going to combine the Disk [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing

Running Automatic Disk Cleaning in Windows 2000 and XP

September 19th, 2003 · Comments Off

Welcome to this weeks fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek! Last week we went over how to schedule Disk Cleanup for Windows 9x computers. This week we are going to cover Windows 2000 and XP. Fasten your seatbelts, check your mirrors, start your engines and let’s get on to the road of knowledge. Oh, [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Defragmenting your Hard Drive

August 22nd, 2003 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome to this weeks fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek! This week we want to speed up the performance of your computer by defragmenting your hard drive(s). Performance is greatly reduced when programs and files become scattered on the hard drive inside your computer. To understand why files become fragmented think of [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Software · Speeding Up

Running Clean Disk on your Hard Drive

August 8th, 2003 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and a great big welcome back to another exciting edition of The Weekly Geek! With a new computer comes excitement and performance both from the user and the machine itself. As the days turn to months and the months to years the performance of the machine slows and as a result [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Optimizing · Speeding Up