Common retailers sell off the shelf budget mini notes books and tablets to huge high priced laptops. Budget models tend to be exclusively general purpose Microsoft Personal Computer types. Apple Mack's tend to be none PC based computers tending to be very stable while Microsoft PCs have their fair share of some stability problems.

Budget PC's running smoothly depends on the habits of us users. Large file size is a drain their operating system speed and memory resources not so much effected by Apple operating systems. Any new off the shelf retailer computer are fast theses days, even budget mini note books and tablets as is any computer with virtually empty hard drives.

Hard drives up to three quarters full with file size beyond the speed and memory capacity cut down expensive and fast computers to the speeds of empty hard drive budget mini note books. Mini notebooks haven't  the capacity to process large file size file collections. There best stability for theses models is a 1/4 full hard drive small file size collection with small file names.

Today it's standard protocol all computers are internet oriented. Top of the range laptops are designed for large collections of file sizes as large as uncompressed multimedia photography, video and entertainment programs specially operating from the internet.

Budget mini note books, Mac minis. I pads and tablets are designed as the names says only as basic note books with a very limited capacity for anything else. They are ideal for collections of small size word documents and basic paint sketch collections.

One of the big problems for budget computers is a collection of no longer working short cut files neglected sitting around cluttering up users desk tops. Apple equivalent are called aliases. They are like HTML links a primary behind the scenes program folder name a slash and the secondary folder name a slash the file name and type locations in the users system.

If there is no match to any one of the folder or file name or file type the path is incomplete created when any one of the folders or the file is renamed or shifted to other locations. A solution is to delete the short cut and if wished recreate a new one liked to the new location.

Too many broken in Microsoft PC short cuts creates a disorganized collection hierarchy paths. The larger the collection the worse it gets. It can become quite a mess for operating systems to manage.

Often deceiving to Microsoft users if long missing or forgotten ( even thought deleted ) outdated and no longer used is marked as hidden so are hiding files from user's hogging speed and memory resources in the background the cause of slow down of computer performance and program freezing.

To restore Microsoft a hidden folder or file refer to the control panel and open folder options. The folder options dialogue appears. Clicking the view tab clicking "Show hidden files, folders and drives" clicking apply and OK displays greyed out hidden file or folders in their locations.

Right clicking them the properties dialogue box displays. Clicking out the tick in the "hidden" tick box clicking apply and OK restores the file or folder back the way it was. 

Uses will need to go back to folder options clicking "Hide folder files or drives". Apple operating systems don't work that way. There is no control panel. The Apple equivalent is called system preferences. This procedure is effective tool in checking where you personal files my have gone to in case accidentally marked of Roget as hidden.

A large file size collection accidentally clicked hidden or otherwise the folder or file program continues to draw a significant amount of memory reverse and speed. No amount of clean up can, ( unless the characteristic clean up program of the operating system does so in the clean up processes ), the hidden personal files will always still be there hogging computer resources in the background. 

Checking any personal files that may have gone hidden unlocking them is one of the steps in file cleaning up. Once hidden folders and files are shown users are free to unlock them and proceed in clean up deleting, resaving in any new location of choice or saved in back ups ect.

Apple operating systems have no registry system the way Microsoft operating systems do. Microsoft programs interact with each other the programming is under the control of the operating systems registry. When a file is deleted the operating system doesn't delete the information because it is needed by most of the other programs. Apple operating system manages the interactive programs differently. 

We know about filing files in alphabetical and numerical order. We look up phone books the first and second letters in alphabetical order of the person. It is the same with PC folder and file naming. The view menu in PC operating systems allows users to arrange any way liked except for the alphabetical order of the files names users have no control of.

No matter the view setting all folder and file names are arranged in numerical and alphabetical order. Even the speed of the ultra fast common new retailer Non PC will take hours to scan an address one at phone book list.

We don't do that do we. We go straight to the block the first letter of the persons name. Then narrowing down we look for the name the second letter of the spelling and so on. The same automatic protocol with PC operating system protocols on the folder and file names. Even new empty budget mini notes books, tablets and PCs will locate a phone number this way in seconds.

Using numbers as file names if we wish out of alphabetical order approach. They are ideal for multiple clone copies of the same file name. Computers don't file numerical order 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 and 6 order but 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 and 04 respectively. Numbers are seem 09, 1,0,  1,1,  1,2,  1,3,  1,4 through to.......1, 9,  2,0,  2.1,  2,2,  2,3, 2,4 though to.........2,9,  3,0,  3,1,  3,2,  3,3.  3.4 though to.........3,9, 4,0.........and so on.

They check the first number say 34 for example , as 3 then the second number 4 and so on. If more than two digit numbers the same principle. They check every number as a individual single digit. This is how typical new retailer computer manages 64-bit ( binary numbers ) as individual 64 single numbers.

A near full hard drive of fastest new off the shelf retailer PC are slowed down quite a lot searching though complex folder and file structures because of registry searches specially if a messy collection of errors. The slowest new budget mini lap tops and tablets available can bet them with empty hard drive content with simple one to two letter folder and tiny file names. The more empty a PC is the more tidy the registry the faster it is and vice versa principle the more crowed the hard drive the more slower the speed.

Retailer shops for the common models display the speed ratting as a part of advertising hypothetical for PCs empty hard drives. Wait till a hard drive is full. The slower the speed ratting the more basic file name structures are needed for PCs to keep them running smoothly. The largest speed ratings for the most part are the expensive models that can speed though more complex folder and file structures up to half full hard drives.

Long file names slow down any PC scanning. The longer the hierarchy pathway names the slower the processing even high processing speed because of a untidy registry. 

One of the tricks keeping budget models particularly mini note book and tablets running smoothly is keeping the hard about quarter full and keeping the registry tidy with minimal folder hierarchy structures minimal valid short cut files and tiny file names. Anther trick because PC also scan recycle bin or trash bins. If you can do with out it keeping it turned off can be beneficial in increase processing speed plus all personal hidden folder and file property menus switch adds to the speed.

When you save a file to the hard drive by default they save in the closest available space. This is because it takes time for any computer to shuffle the rest of the files making room for the new file position.

Think of the insertion of a new sentence in a paragraph of a word processor. Even with high processing speeds uses often experience a few seconds delay as it works at shifting the rest of the text to make room for the new insertion in this case the moving files in the hard drive round in finding room for the new file.

Apple operating systems are different from PCs they don't need a de frag program PC's have to. Users can observe this by observing the position the new file added to the list most of the time at the end. In PCs going out of the folder returning back resets the folder or file in the numerical order sequence.

The habit of doing that while uses work will find when the time comes to defrag their hard drive operating systems often report doesn't need deflagrating at this time. By manually resetting the file to the right location as a user works keeps the hard drive defrag mated and helping to keep users computer's running smoothly.

A slow down hazard for any computer is RAM. Random Access Memory is the instant access not from the hard drive but a temporary copy of every thing including the entire operating system from a mother board chip set. The hard drive is not in use. Including both PC and Non PC computers uses are operating straight from the mother bard. When shut down the whole lot including the not save work is discharged. Only the operating system is reloaded at restart.

Pressing the sleep mode in the shut down menu nothing is discharged. Both computers is still drawing power to maintain users unsaved work where they left off. Pressing the keyboard on off button activates the sleep mode characteristics of the computer. Pressing it again activates the sleep mode wake up system where users can continue were they left off.

Problems occur in PCs if the storage data is near the maximum of the RAM capability of the PC. Non PCs handle the overload differently. In the PC situation there is a minimal  memory margined. A PC hard drive about 90% full is a drain on RAM memory resources. PCs are forced to take time to scrounge up more memory from around the system from RAM to the hard drive.

If large file sizes are are marginal memory reserves computer programs start to run out of memory and start stopping working, in other words freezing problems. The PC has run out of memory resaves waiting for more to come that never comes.

For PCs about a 1/4 of the total hard drive capacity in RAM rule of thumb is safe bet keeping your computer RAM resources well bellow maximum keeping PC programs running smoothly. 

To determine the memory capacity of of both PC and and Apple computers refer to the computer window right clicking a blank space the properties menu displays.

Clicking properties uses have a fair specification guide of the computer details of it's RAM available. Clicking the operating system details gives how much hard drive is free.

The same principle applies when users right click any folder or file. Deducting what the operating says as the file size from, the total RAM specification available tells us what's left is the RAM memory reverse.