Wednesday, April 15, 2009

PC TOOLS


Know What Are PC Tools And How Are They Useful In PC System

The hardware and software along with a number of peripheral devices constitute a PC System. More specifically a PC system can be divided into four major elements. These elements are: the hardware, the application programs, the operating system and the users. The hardware like, hard disk drives, optical drives (CD or DVD drives), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, monitor, sound devices, keyboard, system bus; application software like word processors, spreadsheets, compilers, web browsers; operating system like windows or linux etc all work together to make a PC system function efficiently.


The hardware - the central processing unit (CPU), the memory, and the input / output devices, provides the basic computing resources for the computer system.


The application programs - such as word processors, spreadsheets, compilers and web browsers- define the way in which these resources are used to solve users' computing problems.


The Operating System (OS) is a program that manages the computer hardware as well as other resources of the PC System. The operating system also provides a basis for application programs and act as an intermediary between the computer user and the computer hardware (i.e. the PC System). Although the operating system, by itself does no useful function but it provides an environment within which other programs can do useful work. Thus the operating system is an integral part of the PC System. User programs are executed by the PC system. In a PC system, the hardware and the software work in a synchronized manner. It gives a stable performance and reliability to the system. A PC system processes many modules at a same time. So, it is no idiosyncratic, that a PC system gets crashed. PC systems are always prone to vulnerable errors and faults, which, many a times jeopardize some valuable data and also the performance of the PC system can get affected.


Numerous PC Tools are available which are bundled into the operating system, to cope up with these kinds of problems. These PC Tools are programs, which are designed to help the user to rectify the problems, by them. PC tools can give a lot of valuable information about the state of PC System. This information can be in the form of graph, histogram or report. With the help of this information, problems if any exist, can be found and fixed. Over time when a user adds or removes software, devices and drives, the system will be left with extraneous system registry entries, which can lead to slower performance. A user can use PC Tools that can help to clean the registry entries and make the operating system work faster.


Disk Defragmenter is a PC tool which explores local volumes and merges fragmented files and folders. A PC runs better with regular disk defragmentation. Defragging the hard drive organizes the hard drive so that access to files and programs is more efficient. Other PC tools like Event Viewer, Shared Folders, Local Users and Groups, Performance Logs and Alerts, and Device Manager also help in managing the PC system performance.


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