When Windows is installed on your computer, it places a portfolio named My Documents on the same drive as the Operating System, in most cases drive C:.
The My Documents portfolio is your own personal portfolio and there is a shortcut to My Documents in your start menu, on your desktop and it is also the default portfolio when you open Windows Explorer, thus manufacture it undoubtedly accessible and manageable. It also has subfolders in it where you can store your photos, music, videos and any other personal files.
Windows creates a My Documents portfolio for each user on the computer.
However, having the C:Documents portfolio and the Operating principles on the same hard drive is not such a good idea because the personal files in the C:Documents portfolio is growing in size constantly while the Windows Operating principles grows very exiguous in size over a long duration of time.
This has a progressively negative influence on Windows' performance. The C: Drive is going to get filled up with this personal data and you will have to start deleting files to make more space.
The second problem that arises is it complicates backup. Your personal data needs to be backed up frequently, while the Windows Operating principles only has to be backed up once and thereafter you only need to originate a restore point for it.
A third problem that surfaces is disk defragmenting. Having all this ever expanding data, the Operating principles and your user applications on one drive, results in a slower defrag and may also keep your principles from defragging at all.
It is, however, potential to move the whole My Documents portfolio if you have more than one hard drive or partition on your computer. But many Pc's have only a singular partition of their hard drive; that is, their only hard drive is their C: drive.
The My Documents portfolio can therefore not be moved, unless you are able to partition the existing drive. In some cases it is potential to partition the existing C: drive, if the accurate settings were used when the drive was originally formatted and the format used was Ntfs and not Fat32.
Another thing is that there must be more free space on the second drive or partition than the size of the C:Documents folder. To find out how much space there is, click on My Computer and plump Properties on the drives (usually C: and D: Not the Cd or Dvd drive). Make a note of the free space available on each drive. Now, while still in My Computer, right-click on My Documents and plump Properties. You should see the portfolio sizes shown after a while. The largest frame is the estimate of disk space you will need.
Now do the following:
Click Start, and then right-click on My Documents, click Properties, click the Target tab.
In the Target box, type the path to the portfolio location that you want, and then click Ok. For example, D:My Documents.
If the portfolio does not exist, the originate Message dialog box is displayed. Click Yes to originate the folder, and then click Ok or click Move, click the portfolio in which to store your documents, and then click Ok twice. If you need to originate a new folder, click Make New Folder. Type a name for the folder, and then click Ok twice. In the Move Documents box, click Yes to move your documents to the new location.
If , for any guess you would wish to restore the C:Documents portfolio to its default location, ensue these steps:
Click Start, and then point to My Documents. Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties. Click Restore Default, and then click Ok. In the Move Documents box, click Yes to move your documents to the new location, or click No to leave your documents in the primary location.
Also, if you would wish to take off the My Documents portfolio from the Start menu, ensue these steps:
Right-click Start, and then click Properties. Click Customize. Click the developed tab. In the Start menu items list, under My Documents, click Don't display this item, and then click Ok twice. The next time you click Start, the My Documents portfolio is no longer displayed on the Start menu. This does not take off the files stored in the target location of the My Documents folder.
Except for moving the My Documents portfolio to an additional one drive there are any other things you must keep in mind when you would like to speed up your slow computer. You cannot thoroughly speed up a slow computer by fixing only one of the problems on it
Computers become slower for any reasons:
- viruses and malware can damage your data and slow down your computer.
- too many programs are installed but not used anymore which consume resources,
- files on the hard drive become fragmented and disorganized,
- the Windows registry has too many unused entries,
- unused network connections slow startup,
- too many programs automatically run at startup
I have researched and tested any products over a duration of any months and in order for me to get our slow computer 's operation up to speed again, I made use of not less than 17 distinct products, each of which is designed to do a certain task on the Pc. ultimately we ended up using 11 of these apps (all freeware) on a regular basis which keeps our Pc's performing clean and error free.
In forthcoming articles I'll by comparison to you in detail, how to clear out forgotten programs, unused, unnecessary and junk files and how to clean and streamline the Windows registry.
Slow Computer? Move the My Documents folder to Help Speed Up Your Slow Computer