Put operating system on C disk, and so do small software like MSN, ICQ, Registry Optimizer, Player and graphical software.
Change the writing entries of My Documents, Internet Cache, Internet History, and My Favorite to D disk to avoid other disks producing fragments which will impact hard disk performance.
Install all applications on E disk, games on F disk, movies and music G disk.
Defrag disks
Hard disk will produce a large number of file fragments after using computer for some time. It’s required that users periodically do the Disk Defragmenter to organize and clean up hard disk. Click My Computer, right-click the drive you want to defrag, click properties /tools / defragment now/ select disk /Analyze/ Defragment; the system began to organize, you will be notified when the defrag complete. By the way, whenever I can’t finish defragment by using built-in Disk Defragmenter tool of the system, I always use a disk cleaner.
Put shortcuts properly
Usually we run software by their shortcuts. Many of us like to put all shortcuts on the desktop, which will enable us dazzled, decline the system performance, and will make system unstable resulted in excessive system resources occupied.
Remove junk files
When use Windows XP, lots of junk files with an extension of TMP, BAK, OLD are producing. The way is to click “Start / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery,” empty “write an event to the system log”, select “No” option in the drop-down box of “Write debugging information”.
So, it useful for you hard disk.



