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Anyone remember the good days, when computers were new and programs fit on floppy disks? I’m talking about real floppy disks, not the predecessor to the zip disk.
640K of memory should be enough for anybody.
The quote above is commonly attributed to Bill Gates, although while loooking up the specific quote I found several articles (including one from Wired) denying that Mr. Gates ever said anything along those lines. Popular mythology becomes fact, I guess.
At any rate, we’re far away from the days when computers could survive with so little memory. My laptop possesses a measly 100GB of space… not much when you’re constantly working with image files.
Now, I try to clean up my hard drives every week or so… but this past month has been crazy. By the time I got around to re-optimizing my PC’s performance, my hard drive was 87% full.
Let me share my typical computer clean-up process with you. It’s pretty simple, just needs to be done in the right order.
- Full Virus Scan
- Disk Cleanup
- Scan Disk
- Disk Defragmentation
Apparently, in order to perform the defragramentation, your computer must have 15% of the disk drive available. My 13% free space wasn’t quite good enough. Never ran into that problem before! After culling out some files, and opening up the necessary disk space, I was finally able to run disk defragmentation.
Moral of the story: keep clutter to a minimum in your computer, and run your PC optimization process on a regular basis.
