Cognoscis

Many people are really irritated with their PC’s performance. But it’s not the PC’s fault. It’s their fault. Had they maintained there PC from the start or even in the middle… they would have their PCs running great…sometimes even better than ones which are only a few months old. Don’t worry though. Here are some simple yet effective steps you can optimize your PC to it’s maximum.

1. Softwares: First things first. Don’t install everything you find on the net into your PC. If you don’t like it, you remove it. And when you remove it, files get fragmented. When files get fragmented, your PC runs slow. You know how hard it is to find things at the right time in a cluttered place (like your room)? So choose your softwares with careful research. And AVOID BETA VERSIONS. They really have a tendency to fragment.
2. Defragment your PC atleast once a month. To do this, go to Start Menu> Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Defragmenter.
3. Themes: Never use heavy themes (like Vista theme in XP) unless you have ATLEAST 1 GB RAM.
4. Devices: Make sure only those devices are connected which you are using.
5. Don’t run any program after your computer starts until your Hard Drive comes to a complete stop.
6. Virus scans are very important. Don’t wait for the Virus or Worm to crawl in your PC and get access to your system files, ruin your PC and then you start the scan…. NO! Scan ATLEAST once in 2 weeks. It is tiresome but rewarding. Keep your Antivirus up-to-date. Use Avira Antivir (Free Version available). It’s fast and effective.
7. Disk Checkup: Check your Drives for error regularly. To do this, go to your My Computer> Right click on the drive> Properties>Tools. Check Now. Use Disk Cleanup to clean unneccessary files.
8. Format (reboot) your PC when it gets really slow. it is healthy in the long run too and really boosts up your PC. Don’t do it yourself if you have no experience with it. Call a proffessional or experienced person.
9. Startup Trick: To make your WINDOWS XP startup faster, there are 2 things you can do. One, Remove your Welcome screen. To do this, follow these steps. Go to Start> Control Panel> User Accounts> Change the way users log in or log out> Uncheck “Use the welcome screen”>Apply Options. But you cannot have your programs running in your user account while the other user is working with this setting (Fast User Switiching).
10. Startup Trick 2: Remove all icons (that we can) to make startup faster. Run “msconfig” (without quotes)> Startup Tab> Disable All> Apply.

There is a really great software that I found for PC maintainance. And don’t worry. They didn’t pay me for this.

Glary Utilities: This is a simple software which you can use to really help your PC. It’s features are:-

• It’s Free of cost.
• It fixes and cleans invalid registeries.
• Removes Spyware and Adware.
• Cleans up dangerous Startup Entries
• Monitors andempties free RAM in PC.
• Comes with inbuilt Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Program Uninstaller, File Shredder and File Undelete too.

Problem: When you switch on the computer, your system starts the boot process normally. You will also get the logon screen and when you do log into your account, you get your beautiful background picture and… thats it. Nothing else loads.

Solution: Lots of sites gave a lot of solution of scanning with antivirus and all. I did all that and realised that there is no virus in my system at all. Then finally I thought of this one.

• When you log into your system, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to start the task manager
• Then in the Application tab, press new task..
• In the new window that opens up type “msconfig” without the quotes and press enter
• In the new window that opens up, in the General tab under the startup selection select the option that says Normal startup.
• Press Apply >> OK. It will ask if it may reboot. Say yes to that.

This is what solved my problem. Hope this helps you as well

Error detail :

During start up a error message flashes that due to some error like ‘Auto NTFS not found’, AutoCheck is being skipped. This is due to uninstalling programs that change the registry value and dont restore them while being uninstalled.

Solution :

Go to start >> run , type regedit and press enter

In the registry editor navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Click on Session Manager and remove the string BootExecute value.

Thats done now