If a computer is running for a long time, it is undoubted that its performance is being decreased day by day. If you want to keep your computer in a high level, you are supposed to maintain your computer properly in order to make it running fast and smoothly.

Well, in this article, I will tell you some methods to make computer maintenance. You can follow the steps below.

Firstly, you can delete the useless files in the system route.

Many users are not so familiar with such maintaining method, but it is one of the crucial factors that affect your system performance. As is known to all, when installing applications in the Windows, it may usually copy many files from system folder in the Windows installing route. And you uninstall such applications, some of these files are restored. As time goes by, such left files are accumulation day after day, it can hinder the running speed obviously.

However, for some users, it is very difficult to remove these disturbing files by hand. Since some of them belong to shared ones, once you delete them by accident, it will have impact on the other applications. Therefore, I think you should backup such files you want to delete. If the system is still running very well after removing those files, it means that they are really useless files and you can even delete the backup so as to free up the disk.

When running the system, it may apply some spaces in the hard disk to serve as virtual memory. Therefore, you can right-click "My Computer" to choose "Properties" / "Advanced" / "Performance". In this tab, you can click "Advanced", you can see how many spaces are being taken when running the system. This is the space where defragmenting program cannot cover. But, you can set your heart at rest, since this may not have too much influence on your system.