Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: RTSDaddy2 on September 28, 2010, 06:18:28 pm
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I did a search on this, but apparently came up with the wrong search words....yet I'm almost sure I've asked about this before. Please forgive me if so, but we're trying to clean our desktop "business" PC again, make it run faster. Under Windows file, when I click on it, I get a string of KBD files...I think someone on here once told me all of those can be deleted safely with the exception of the last few newer ones. Is this correct?
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Don't think that will make it run faster...
You could always back up all your documents and do a fresh install.
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The only way deleting files will make a PC faster is if you are doing in preparation for a defrag, and do not have enough space to do it properly.
Really the only other 'deleting' that will make a difference in PC speed is disabling things that start up automatically that are unwanted/unneeded.
Another tip is 'upgrading' the harddrive to a newer one, cloning/ghosting the old one to the new one, and carrying on as before.
I've seen nice speed boost on older machines that only have an old IDE ATA adaptor by purchasing a new, faster SATA drive and using a SATA/ATA adaptor such as this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812240012 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812240012)
I've used probably 6-7 of those on older system for people planning on building a full new computer in the future but starting by only purchasing a new harddrive. On an old Dell P4 box the harddrive burst speeds went from 30-40 megs/sec up to around 120ish, almost the saturation point for an ATA133 controller.
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Turn off indexing, that things a killa
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Download Scanner (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/) and delete any files you don't need then run a defrag.