Every time you use your computer, the operating system creates new files and moves other files around on your hard disk. As the number of files grow and become segmented (parts of a file stored in different spots) it takes longer to locate and work with these files. Since working with files is one of the primary tasks your system performs, the decrease in speed often becomes noticeable. Window includes two major utilities to help you alleviate these problems: Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter.
Disk fragmentation is one of the most common problems but ignored by most of the users. If Disk defragmentaion is not done, the system slows down drastically. There are lots of Disk Deframentation Software available which helps deframent the disk and speed up the disk.
SpeedUpMyPC combines a range of professional level tools that specifically target system performance optimization, privacy enhancement and hard disk cleanup. System settings, Internet usage, disk clutter, RAM and CPU are all automatically scanned, cleaned and optimized for peak performance. With SpeedUpMyPC you can also selectively disable or remove unnecessary background and auto-start processes, cutting valuable seconds off your startup time.
When you know that your computer hard disk is almost failing, the most intelligent thing is to take the backup of important data. After this, the second thing to do can be cloning your hard disk primary partition. This is a very useful way of preserving your Windows Installation and all other software installations when you are upgrading a hard disk drive with a new one.