PC Maintenance Tip 2: Keep your PC clean

Many times, people complains that their computer runs slower than it has been running before. And here are a few common reasons:

1. Disk fragmentation
2. Bloated registry database

So, today I would like to introduce a few tools which I personally are quite useful in fixing these problems. No guarantee though :P

• Auslogics Disk Defrag
  A defragmentation tool which is better than the default one that comes with Windows.
• Auslogics Registry Defrag
  Yes, it is right. Registry can be defragmentationed, too :D
• CCleaner
  This helps you clean temporary files and also the registry.
  WARNING: Backup before you clean your registry.

By the way, I think the best sequence to run these software is: CCleaner -> Registry Defrag -> Disk Defrag.

Enjoy.

PC Maintenance Tip 1: Connection Boosting

If you are interested in the technological terms, check out Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), Time To Live (TTL) and TCP Receive Window (RWIN). Of course you can tweak these settings in Windows registry, but it is not recommended to edit the registry unnecessarily. Therefore, download a tool like TZ Connection Booster and let it do the tweaking for you.

It is generally believed that good connection can be achieved by setting MTU to 1500, TTL to 64 and have a reasonably large RWIN value. However, you should experiment with various different values, for example, I think I get the best performance at MTU:576, TTL:64 and RWIN:130000+.

The above settings would affect the overall network performance of your system. But some firefox tweaking might help in improving your web browsing experience, too.