Software Utilities
Security
Security is needed to stop malicious malware/viruses from harming your computer. An example of security software is Norton-Antivirus. The security programs stops the virus from executing a malicious file/code to steal personal information and deleting personal files. Most operating systems also have a firewall built in. Security will never improve the performance of the users computer suystem as it is very process heavy. It will slow it down unless the user has a virus. In that case it will improve the perfomance without the virus.
Defragmentation:
Files are written as blocks on the hard-drive, after writing and deleting files the files on the hard drive become scattered through the grid blocks on the hard drive. This will save the user time when opening files because the hard drive will not have to search the blocks to find the files as they are next to each other. When saving any file onto a Hard Drive it can be spread out on the Hard Drive to find space, because of this access time is slower, but you can defragment your Hard Drive to put all files into sections where the whole files are saved together in one place on the Hard Drive, doing this can increase the speed in which files are opened from the Hard Drive, because they are all together rather than searching the whole Hard Drive for the rest of the file.
Defragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation, this is done by organising the contents of a mass storage device into small pieces.
Defragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation, this is done by organising the contents of a mass storage device into small pieces.
Clean-up tools
Clean up tools can increase the performance on the user’s computer. The clean-up tools delete temporary files which are stored by websites. . Depending on the size of the registry, the time taken to delete all of the unused files and links, things like (jpeg files after deleting pictures) would be faster or slower. All of this can improve the performance and speed of a computer as it is making sure there is no data or programmes that are taking up memory on the Hard Drive or the RAM that would have to be processed. Without all this excess data there would be less for the processor to go through This in turn means that there are less files on the system which will speed up the scanning process on the hard-drive.
Disk Formatting
Drive formatting can improve the performance of your computer hugely mostly because your wiping everything off and starting clean again. This means that all the space on the Hard Drive can be used again, but the old data that was on there before has not been deleted it has just been moved to a separate part of the Drive, so therefore there can a way of restoring the Hard Drive so the table of contents can be changed back and therefore bringing back the data saved on the Drive before formatting. Windows also has its own built in way of letting a user format their Hard Drive. This in turn could speed up the restart process of the users computer system.