Hard Drive Cleaning

One often overlooked and neglected chore most people would prefer not to be bothered with is sorting out the massive amount of data on their hard drives. The tendency over time as applications are installed and then later removed is for hard drives to quickly become fragmented and loaded down with extraneous files and folders.

This can have many deleterious effects: First and foremost it slows down access to your good files, It can make navigating your hard drive more complicated and tedious. Defragmenting, backups and antivirus scans will take longer to complete. You will find yourself spending more time waiting for applications to load and for new files to save to the hard disk. These are all sure signs of an over-burdened hard drive.

The solutions can very from simple cleaning and defragging up to replacement with a larger faster drive. We can inspect your hard drive and make recommendations on how best to proceed.

In extreme cases we might recommend first backing up your good data, reformatting the hard drive, reinstalling the operating system and then restoring only your necessary data and applications. This can quickly return that newly purchased PC performance we all desire.

Please call User Friendly Computers of Royal Oak at 248-585-9132 and ask for the owner Bill Woelk. Together we can discuss your backup needs and come up with a solution.

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