If you checked your hard drive may have contained hundreds of thousands of files. And if you ask about the contents of the disk, the answer is, of course, contains a file system and some programs are installed on the computer. As we know there are many documents and spreadsheets, thousands of audio files, images, and so on.

But most of the hundreds of thousands of these files may be temporary files and back-ups, and some cookies files from the Internet. One also resulted in a decreased performance of hard disk itself.

Clearing the browser cache is the first step you should do. After doing so, you can see a reduced number of files could reach thousands. Then you can open a command prompt and run the command del *. bak / s, del *. bk! / S, del *. tmp / s, and so on. This method could eliminate thousands of unnecessary files and regain disk space that has been empty.
However, this is not the best for you to do. Why? First, you may not know any temporary file extension. Second, you can just delete the files that were still needed. Third, if you are not careful then file damage could happen. To overcome this, you are advised to use a special utility to remove temporary files. Microsoft includes a utility to do so. The utility is Windows Disk Cleanup. This utility can delete temporary files in a relatively short time. After deleting unnecessary files, it is time to run a disk defragger. However, fragmentation has a negative impact, because the disk heads have to keep moving when read and write files, so that hard disk performance may decrease.
To overcome the problem of fragmentation can be done by running regularly defragging utilities. Defragging utility can read every file and make each part arranged on a regular basis, so that files can be more quickly accessed. Defragmenter utility is limited in terms of existing features, and if you want to try more complete features, you can use a utility defragging “Vopt” or defragging system cleanup “Diskeeper”. But the most important to overcome the damage to your hard drive is how we use these devices and perform regular maintenance; hard disk performance is not so rapid decline.

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