How To Speed Up My Computer: Add An External Hard Drive

Top Ten Ways On How To Speed Up My Computer

How To speed Up Your Computer

#8- Get An External Hard Drive

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dding an External Hard Drive to your computer will allow you to clear out a lot of the things you don’t need to be storing on your normal hard drive.

A great example would be your music or pictures. All those songs and pictures are sitting on your computer making it go slower. You will see a decline in your computers performance as soon as you use over half of your hard drive space.

Moving all your songs or pictures to your external hard drive will free up a lot of space on your main hard drive. You can even move applications such as photoshop or games.

An external hard drive is also handy because it is portable. You can unplug it from your computer and take it to a friends house and plug it in there, sharing photos and pictures very easily.

Most external hard drives connect using USB, so its very easy and practical and doesn’t require any installation or technical knowledge. I have listed some very dependable and affordable hard drives that you can purchase from Amazon below.

I will now show you how to check how big your hard drive is and how much you have used of it.

1. Click your start button and click my computer.

2. Right click your hard drive and select properties.

3. Select the General Tab. This page will give you a pie chart of your hard drive. It will show you how much you have used and how much you still have available. If you are anywhere over half you may want to consider an external hard drive. This will do wonders for your computer. This is one of the best ways to speed up your computer.

As you can see I am actually in need of a new external hard drive myself. I will be picking one up tomorrow! This is a very important technique to speed up computer.

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