Nine tricks to make the hard disk run faster under Windows (1)

How to make the hard disk run faster in the Windows operating system, let's talk about the nine tricks in Windows to achieve these goals, to help you use the computer efficiently.

First, use the hard disk

What is the reasonable use of the hard disk? First we need to understand the physical structure of the hard disk.

The partitioned and formatted hard disk is based on the sector, and a partition is composed of several sectors. So what is a sector? We all know that the disk is rotating at work. The information it stores is recorded on its surface in a series of concentric circles. Each concentric circle is called a track. We can see the distribution of tracks and sectors ( Of course, this is just a schematic diagram, the physical object is much more dense than the picture!), many friends think that the red "big head" is a sector, but the correct understanding should be that the yellow piece is a sector. A sector has a size of 512 bytes, a whole ring is a track, and there are several sectors on a track, so it is easy to see that the larger the sector on the outer track, the larger the volume. The words are the lower the density, because the hard disk is mechanical transmission, so the speed of the search, read and write speed of the magnetic head is faster, the distribution of the partition is also from the outer ring to the inner ring, so the C disk is relative to the D disk. In addition, this is why we feel that the C drive is faster than the D, E and other partitions.

Second, virtual memory settings

Setting virtual memory to a fixed value is already a common "truth", and this is very correct, but most people will Set to a non-system partition other than the C drive, and its value is 2 to 3 times the physical memory. Most people think that the larger the value, the better the performance of the system and the faster it runs! But this is not the case, because the system relies on virtual memory - if the virtual memory is large, the system will have a lot of free space in the physical memory. I started to use virtual memory, but those that I have not used are still stuck in physical memory, which will inevitably lead to a decline in memory performance!

Third, reasonable placement of "shortcuts"

In most cases, we run the software is usually a "shortcut" of the software to do, the hard drive is getting bigger and bigger, the installed software is more and more, many friends like to put shortcuts Put it on the desktop, this will not only dazzle you, but also the system performance will be degraded, and the system resources will be too large and the system will become unstable, so we should control the shortcut on the desktop to about 10, Other shortcuts can be placed in the Start menu and the Quick Launch bar, and all software "uninstall" shortcuts are removed to improve system performance. Also, try not to have duplicate shortcuts.