I was amused by Bill “Technobuddy” Husted’s recent article in the Columbus Dispatch – PC maintenance worth a few yawns. Because we get it – defrag program and tools that help optimize PC aren’t the most exciting stuff to talk about. But hey, when you’ve got faster PC performance and faster PC speed, you end up with more time to talk about and do fascinating stuff!
Personally, I don’t think Bill’s a boring guy at all. But as he writes, he loves boredom!
“Preventive maintenance for a computer is a boring task. Unlike the panic you might feel when fixing a computer, it’s routine drudgery not much different from regularly mowing the grass. Luckily, I’m a guy who loves boredom. I spent a lifetime at pressure filled advertising agencies, corporations and then newspapers. So a little boredom seems pleasant to me. Come with me today as I teach you how to embrace boredom and – in the process – save yourself the unwelcome excitement of a computer emergency down the line.”
Providing the best disk defrag software and PC optimization software, we know all about this boring talk. Thankfully, we don’t let it bother us – we just want to help optimize PC performance and give people faster PC performance.
Back to Technobuddy’s article, Bill informs his readers an unpleasant fact of life: ‘hard disks will fail.’
And he then goes on to further explain that “it’s just a fact of life: At some point, your hard disk will fail, even if you do everything right. But that’s not a good reason to skimp on maintenance. Use a defragmenting program – a good one comes free with Windows, or you can buy the even better PerfectDisk at http://perfectdisk.raxco.com.”
Bill has several other tips as well, including one on some housecleaning, writing that “computers are like closets. If there is plenty of space available, we tend to use it. Unused programs pile up, and photos and music files that you don’t need add to the clutter. It is smart to clean out the junk occasionally. But there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.” PerfectDisk and PerfectSpeed both contain duplicate file removal components to help declutter.
So while talk of a defragmenter program, faster PC performance and faster PC speed might be boring stuff, what you can do with a faster PC performance can be as exciting as you make it.
Joe Abusamra is VP of marketing/operations for Raxco Software, developer of award-winning automatic disk defrag software. He oversees technical and pre-sales support, marketing, public relations, production, and IT. Abusamra studied business at Rhode Island and The George Washington University.