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Top 7 Tips to Optimize Windows 10 for Better Performance

Microsoft had reinvented speed and performance in the form of Windows 10 operating system some time back. Despite the fact, they are efficient systems still they are not immune to regular system performance related issues. Let’s discuss few tips to optimize Windows 10 for better performance.
tips for better windows 10 performance

Manage Startup Programs: 
By managing startup items well you can boost up your system’s speed significantly. To manage your system’s startup items, right click on Taskbar and select Task Manager. It will open a compact Task Manager, go to “More Details” at the bottom left of your screen. Here you will find all the options associated with Task Manager, go to Startup tab to see the list of programs that launch at the startup process. Now select the unnecessary program and right-click on it to “disable” it. It will prevent the program from running at startup process.

Install Solid State Drive (SSD): 
SSD or Solid State Drive works efficiently than your regular Hard disk drive (HDD) to speed up your system performance. Traditional HDD uses a mechanical arm with a read & write head to perform its tasks whether SSD uses microchips to store information on it. It generally relies on an embedded processor tool called “Controller” which helps perform tasks smoothly and fast.

Remove duplicate files: 
Duplicate files on your system accumulate on your system due to various reasons like file transfer, file downloading, data backup etc. These files occupy a lot of disk space on your system and affect your system speed and performance negatively. To remove these chunks of duplicate files you can use certain duplicate file finder for windows 10 for instant results. These tools help you remove all duplicate files effortlessly to recover some precious disk space on your system.

Disable Animations & Visual Effects: 
Animations and visual effects make your system look good but at the same time these effects make your system slow. To disable unnecessary effects on your system, go to Start button and type “sysdm.cpl” in the search box and press Enter. It will launch the System Properties dialog box. Now click on the Advanced tab and click on “Settings” in the Performance section. Here in the Performance Options dialog box you’ll be able to see the varied list of animations and visual effects. Uncheck the effects that you don’t want on your system or click on “Adjust for best performance” to turn off all such unnecessary effects at once.

Launch the Windows troubleshooter: 
You can use this lesser known tool to sniff out performance problems and solve them. To launch this tool, go to Start button and type “troubleshooting” in the search box and select “Troubleshooting Control Panel” option. Now click on “Run maintenance tasks” under System and Security section. Here a screen titled “troubleshoot and help prevent computer problems” will appear. Now click Next to allow the system to show find files and shortcuts you don’t use often. It will also display other performance related issues on your system. Here you can fix all such files and performance related issues instantly.

Remove temporary files: 
Temporary files on your system accumulates due to various activities on your system including browsing, apps installations, use of various programs etc. To remove these temporary files, go to Start menu & Settings & System & Storage & This PC (or any hard drive) & select Temporary files and recycle bin. Now click on “Delete temporary files” and delete all temporary files from your system.

Use reliable security suite: 
In the world of extended online activities, systems are more prone to malware attacks than ever. These malware attacks not only cause you data loss and security breach but they affect your system speed negatively. To deal with these threats use reliable security suite including firewall to safeguard your system against any security threat. There are various free anti-malware programs available use them or go for paid versions for better protection.

Summary: 
Windows 10 is an efficient operating system which offers better speed and performance. Though these systems also face certain performance related issues. Let’s discuss few tips to optimize
Windows 10 for better performance.

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How to Recover Temporary And Permanently Deleted Files From Computer

This article explains the reasons that lead to sudden deletion of files and data loss from a Windows based system. It also identifies the ways to recover lost files manually and automatically using third-party data recovery tool. 

For deleting the files and folders from systems, we usually use the Shift+Delete key and sometimes empty the Recycle bin on a regular basis to clear the junk files. The files we download from the Internet initially gets downloaded in the Downloads folder from where we can copy and paste them to the desired location. At times, files are only deleted from their source location and not from the Recycle Bin or the Downloads folder.
Both the ways to keep the system clean is undoubtedly helpful, but, at times when a file or a folder is deleted accidentally, this may lead to despair. As soon as you realized that you have deleted a wrong folder by mistake, you start searching for data recovery methods to retrieve your files. If this is the case, then let's look at the following recovery solutions.

How to Recover Temporarily or Permanently Deleted Files or Folders?

i. Manual Approach
When a file or a folder is permanently deleted, you can create a new folder with the same name on the desktop. The name has to be the same as that of the deleted folder. After the folder is created, select it, then right-click and then select ‘Properties’. Next, select ‘Previous versions’. Windows will perform a thorough search and display all the previous versions of the respective folder. From the enlisted items, you can select the latest version and can select to ‘Restore’ the file on system.

It is not guaranteed if you would be able to recover files and folders using the above stated data recovery method. To retrieve deleted data from the Windows machine, it is effective to employ a third-party data restore solution. When the objective is to prevent the security and integrity of data, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery serves the purpose.

ii. Third-Party Approach

For getting started, you need to download and install the tool on machine. After the tool is installed, select the Data Recovery tab and then select the volume from which data has to be recovered. The tool will scan the selected volume and enlist all the files existing on it. You can select the file deleted accidently and clicked on the recover button. Next, provide the destination storage for saving the resultant file and the procedure to recover deleted files is done.

You can recover temporarily deleted as well as permanently deleted data using the tool. Severely corrupted files can also be recovered using the hard disk recovery software. Even if the data is erased from any of the default folders such as Downloads or Desktop, it can be recovered following the same procedure.

Supported File Formats
Apart from recovering deleted data, the tool provides the option to recover deleted partitions and restore them on the system. The application supports more than 300 file types. Various file formats that can be recovered using hard drive recovery software are:

Office Documents: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, RTF, PPT, PPTX, PPS, DOT, DOTX, XLT, XLTX, XLW, XLT, POT, POTX, XLW, XLB

Miscellaneous files: TEXT, JAVA, XML, CGI, FRM, DEF, TXT, CC, JS, HPP, CPP, BAT, DSP, PRG, HH, PHP, INI, JSP, CXX, INF, LOG, REG, ASM, ASP, FRM, LIC, VCPROJ, DSW, CSPROJ, H, SLN, PRG

Internet files: HTML, XHTML, HTM, XHT, PLG, SHTM, SHTML, MHTML

Backup files: BKF

Archive files: ZIP, TAR, LZH, ALZ, CAB, ARJ, RAR

Acrobat files: PDF

What Causes Sudden Data Deletion?
Sometimes, data from the system gets deleted or turns inaccessible automatically due to several reasons that include:

1. Operating System crash and sudden close down of any internal application or program

2. Sudden corruption in the file or any program leads to data loss

3. Virus attacks, malicious malware intrusions can be a reason behind data loss

4. Downloading applications from unreliable resource(s) or corrupted media

5. Hardware failure can cause data loss and inaccessibility of data



Factors that Reduce Possibilities of Data Recovery
Sometimes, it is quite difficult to recover a file as there are some factors that reduce the possibilities of recovering data:

· Hard drive incorporates number of bad sectors

· Hard disk has been fragmented recently

· The file or folder was deleted long ago

· Deleted files are overwritten by new data

· Hard drive is quite older and shows signs of corruption

Factors that Decrease Possibilities of Data Recovery
Likewise, there are other factors that decrease the possibilities of data recovery to quite a considerable extent:

· When a file is deleted, and you realized it the very next moment

· The device is not defragmented after data loss occurs

· Hard disk is not much interrupted in the due course of time

· Hard drive recovery tool is reliable and efficient enough

· Hard drive is in good condition, and no bad sectors exist on it

How to Select Data Recovery Solution?
If you have decided to employ data recovery tool to recover and reinstate the lost data, deleted file or folder or erased partition, there are few points that must be considered while employing Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software:

· The data recovery tool must be able to handle all types of corruption issues

· It must integrate different options to scan data to enable user to save time

· The tool must incorporate feature that allows the user to scan a particular volume of data for faster recovery

· The tool must be available in the trial version so that the user must test its capabilities before investing on it

· It must recover data with internal attributes while keeping the original data intact

Whether it is about recovering deleted data from the hard drive or recovery of data from a corrupted storage medium, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery works efficiently. The tool is capable enough to retrieve every possible data.

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Author: Aruna Attri
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How To Create A Non deletable And Non Editable Folder In Windows PC

There are many tweaks and tricks on android mobile devices and the same is applicable to Windows OS on your PC. There are lots of folders on our computers, each containing different files and documents. Some of the files are too important that you won't like an intruder to spy what is inside it so because of that reason, you have searched all over to see how to lock protect those files inside the folder.

Although there are software that can lock your private folders but you find out that those software can't protect the folder from being deleted or renamed that's why am here to show you this simple trick to protect any folder of your choice from been deleted without your consent.

At the end of this tutorial, you can now manually create an undeletable, unmarkable, and unrenamable folders 📁 (if there are words like that) without any application or software.

Advantages Of Creating A Non Deletable Folder On Windows PC
=> It will protect your secret folders even if you leave your computer with another person
=> You will become the boss of your PC
=> You don't need an extra application to do it
=> You can make money doing it for novices and those working in a bank or similar environment

NOTE 📝
For optimal protection of your folders, you can utilize both this method and app lock method. This will protect the folder both from being accessed and from being deleted or renamed without your consent.

Now that you are aware of what we are going to achieve with this tweak, let me work you through the lane and show you how to achieve this with the help of simple command prompt trick. Let's go there.

How Can I Create an Undeletable and Unrenamable folders in Windows OS?

Step 1 Go to start and search for "Run" on your windows PC

Step 2 Type cmd and hit enter.

Step 3 Now you have to create the folder in your PC root directory for this to work. To do this, just type input D: or E: and click the enter button.

Step 4 After doing that, type this command md con\ and click enter to make directory.

Step 5 You can also replace the word “con” with words like aux, lpt1, lpt2 up to lpt9, as it’s the name given to the folder

Step 6 Viam!!! You have successfully created your secret folder. You can now go to the created folder and try deleting or renaming it. You will see that it won't work rather, you will get an error message.


But Wizy, What If I Decide To Delete The Folder Myself Later?
I know this question is currently running inside you as you are reading this and i will give you the answer by showing you how to delete it using the same command prompt tweak.

How Can I delete the Undeletable Folder?

Step 1 Open the command prompt program from your PC

Step 2 Type the letter D: ( this is if the foler was created in D: drive but use E or nay other letter if otherwise) and click enter

Step 3 Input this code rd con\ (rd - remove directory)

Step 4 Having done this, the folder is now open and can be deleted or renamed like other normal folders.

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So now your folders are protected and safer. Another advantage of this method is that, it doesn't affect PC in any negative way as long as the command is entered correctly. I hope this tutorial help you and make your PC more secured. If you have any difficulties or questions, kindly ask at the comments section on this blog and you will get solutions asap