Because you’re reading this I am guessing the thought you might need some expert help on your side has already occurred to you so I’ll take things from square 1. Broadly speaking optimizing a PC requires some heavy duty diagnostic software and possibly investment in some hardware upgrades, but as a first step the obvious, low-cost solution lies with you.
Modern processors are smart and operating systems come with tools that allow you to query their status and help them back to equilibrium and equilibrium, believe it or not, is where a perfectly tuned system should be at.
The ail of every attempt at optimization is to create a system that hums in harmony, allocating system resources as needed, never hanging or slowing down and never, ever crashing.
So let’s begin with step one and use the integrated Task Manager (present in every Windows NT/98SE/XP/Vista) as out query buddy who will translate our questions for the system we are optimizing and give the system’s answers back to us.
Ctrl-Alt-Del pressed at the same time bring up the tool we’ll use to show how our system’s heart performs under strain. More than that, because the Task Manager shows CPU load, used and free allocated memory, the number of processes that are running and the file page demands they make it can become an excellent diagnostic tool for those times when our system noticeably slows down. Used correctly it can even show where hardware problems are occurring and allow us to see where we need to start thinking about replacing computer components.
