By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly. This article discusses how to use the tools available in Perfect Optimizer to more efficiently maintain your computer and safeguard your privacy when you're online.

1). Free up disk space

By freeing disk space, you can improve the performance of your computer. The Junk File Cleaner tool helps you free up space on your hard disk. The utility identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.

Use Junk File Cleaner to:
Remove temporary Internet files.
Remove downloaded program files (such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets).
Empty the Recycle Bin.
Remove Windows temporary files.
Remove optional Windows components that you don't use.
Remove installed programs that you no longer use.
Tip: Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space because the browser caches each page you visit for faster access later.

To use Junk File Cleaner
1.    Click Clean, point to Junk File Cleaner, and then click Start Scan after launching Perfect Optimizer. If several drives are available, you might be prompted to specify which drive you want to clean.

2.    When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the specified files, click Yes. After a few minutes, the process completes and the Junk File Cleaner dialog box closes, leaving your computer cleaner and performing better.

2). Speed up access to data

Disk fragmentation slows the overall performance of your system. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. The response time can be significantly longer.

Disk Defragger is a Perfect Optimizer utility that consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer's hard disk so that each occupies a single space on the disk. With your files stored neatly end-to-end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk speeds up.

To use Disk Defragger:

1.    Click Optimizer, point to Disk Defragger after launching Perfect Optimizer.

2.    In the Disk Defragger dialog box, click the drives that you want to defragment, and then click the DEFRAGMENT button.

3). Add more Memory to your computer

Perhaps you're more than familiar with this scenario: You're working on your PC and notice performance getting gradually slower and slower. Programs become harder to open and close. You wait forever for Web pages to be displayed. And then, you get some serious-sounding "virtual memory is too low" message.

Don't worry: This message isn't as scary as it sounds.

Viewing a virtual memory low message

Virtual memory is the space your computer uses when it's short of RAM (Random Access Memory), which is the memory used when running programs like Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

So what can you do to correct this problem and prevent this message from coming up in the future? The following are some solutions to keep your computer from displaying the "virtual memory minimum is too low" message.

Bump up the virtual memory size on your computer by the following steps:

1.    Download and install Perfect Optimizer
2.    Double-click the icon to run Perfect Optimizer
3.    Click SpeedUp->Memory Optimizer->OPTIMIZE