It's a hard fact to face, but it's true the Windows tuning utilities are not so effective. That means, they won't be able to speed up the performance of your PC, if your hard disk is creeping along at a snail's pace. This doesn't mean that regularly scanning the system for infections, deleting temporary files, and defragmenting the hard drive is useless, but the impact on the system's performance is greatly reduced it the underlying hardware has'some serious flaw or faults.

If you've had your PC or laptop for more than a couple of years, then it's high time you performed a thorough scan of your hard drive and bring the partition up to the mark. There are a quite a-few shareware applications in the marKet that do this, which you'll find on this month's CHIP DVD. Additionally, there are'plenw of tools available for monitoring, optimizing and recovering you'r hard disk.

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The first step in optimizing your hard drive is I to clean up the Windows partition thoroughly and get rid of any existing physical read errors in order to achieve maximum speed. Once the hard drive is all spruced up, create a backup image of it in its most optimal state, so that you can always revert back to it if anything goes wrong in the succeeding steps. After creating a backup, separate the Windows system files and folders from your personal data, and remove information that isn't essential including junk files. The last step describes how to automate this entire process, since creating a backup can be quite a nerve wracking task, but once set-up and initiated, your PC will automatically save the system partition information and will make sure that the hard disk is always in its most optimal condition.