3 tips to improve your computer/hard drive's health

• Introduction: After a while your PC which is fast and responsive might become sluggish. While this may seem normal, we all want to get it back on track. While reinstalling the OS will no doubt solve the problem, why reinstall when there are easy ways? From my experience any PC can be fixed provided you have the time and patience.
• The 3 tips:
1. Clean up junk files: Refer this link.
2. De-fragment your drives: Defragmenting your drives regularly will improve your hard drive's health and make you PC faster. Refer this link.
3. Check and repair Disk errors: Refer this link.
• What I do: I usually remove temp files once a week, defrag once in 15 days and do a complete disk error check once a month.
• When to do: It depends on how much you use the PC and you will know when your PC needs tuning by experience. If your PC is taking awfully long to retrieve files/open documents and is busy churning have no doubt that the disk needs to be defragmented. If your PC shuts down randomly or freezes, a bad sector could be the problem. So check for errors and give it a shot. Who knows these simple steps might just save you a few bucks!!