With spring finally upon us, many use this time to clean their house, get the lawn mower ready, and head to the lake or beach. While you are doing your spring cleaning and getting into the spring and summer spirit, don’t forget to do a spring cleaning on your PC as well. Below are five easy actions that you can perform on your PC to keep it running fast and in working order. Free Up Hard D...
I previously wrote how to use Speedfan to check your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T information, but checking the health of your hard drive is actually a secondary feature of the Speedfan software. Its main purpose is to provide you the real-time statuses of your hardware. Speedfan is free software for Windows that allows users to access real-time hardware information that would otherwise be unava...
As your hard drive begins to age, the chance for failure and resulting data loss increases. Today’s hard drives feature a monitoring system called Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology or S.M.A.R.T. for short. With S.M.A.R.T. and the appropriate software, it is possible to keep updated on the status of your hard drive and the important data that resides on it. To check the ...