 What's up internet? Back to school na tayo finally and it's exciting na mga face-to-face na tayo. Pero baka kinakaban ka that you or yung anak mo, kailanan ng bagong computer kasi iban yung expectation sayo. High school ka na, first-year college ka na, or kakapasag mo pa lang sa trabaho. We did do a guide video before on how to build a new computer for work or for school. Pero wag naman tayo, bili lang nang bili ng bago. So video na to, this will be tips on how to optimize your old war horse for your new work. Usually, you don't need to buy. Even old hardware will be sufficient for most school or work tasks. Yung unang tip, alam mo na is to activate windows. Lika dito, may sponsor kami na mahahamura ka talaga kasi may discount code kami and trusted yung sponsor namin. Kami personally for the shop, we've ordered more than 100 keys from them. Walang problema. So if you're familiar with yung mga e-commerce sites, sobrang simple lang nito. You just need to sign up, create an account, the last for your email, password, the usual things. Pro tip, mag ka na mag-subscribe but you do need to agree to the terms. Pag may account ka na, yung windows 10 pro link na sa text description naman or mas a search mo naman dito sa search field nila. Pwede rin siya sa mobile. So nandito ako sa mobile phone ko with the windows 10 pro key. Yung unang price niya is $22.21. Nakad-discount na yun. Pero panggita ako sa inyong para mahahu hapanong additional 25% discount. So yung promotion code, yung halaga, put in our code HS20 tapos 22.21 pa rin yung price. Pero pag apply mo, be sure to click the apply. Yung price from $22.21 naging $16.66 nalang. Pansinin mo, $22 yung initial price. Pag apply mo nung discount code magiging $16 nalang. So nabawasan nung $5.55. And you submit order. Madami sa nang payment options. Megalink, PayPal, Alipay. Yung usual namin, PayPal. And then you click pay now. And then tuloy-tuloy na siya. Pag atapos nung, lalabas yung CD key dun sa dashboard nila. Copy and paste mo lang yun. Puntang sa windows mo. Pasok mo yung key. Yun. Activated na yung windows. No mask, no fuss. Hindi lang software si CD key. Meron nyo nyo nyan silang hardware products. Nagtimap sila with various brands for a back-to-school pro mo. Yung ibang brands, aminin ko, di ganun ka sikkat. Dare You, Autoful, Mouse Speed, Motor Speed, Life Smart. Odo may isang brand dito na sikkat sa atin yung edifier. A lot of people have requested that over the years. So at least isa dito, medyo sikkat na brand sa atin. Odo personally nagamit ko na rin nung Dare You mouse and so far so good quality naman siya. And at least useful yung promo kasi yung mga items, yung mga pangkaraniwan, yung kailangan mo talaga. You have mice, you have chairs, you have headsets, you have keyboards, may earphones. So parang yung software codes din nila. Yung basic na kailangan mo to get started for work or for school. You'll need activated windows and you'll need basic peripherals. And of course may discount code rin tayo para dito. Use discount code F-E-R for a 15% discount. All right, basic tips on how to optimize an old computer. Number one is to reformat windows or even better, wipe everything and then install it again. Yung windows kasi parang tao yan. Overtime, tumatanda tayo, nagihing ulyanin, bumabagal yung performance. And this is a non-technical description but it's basically what happens to windows also. Yung accretion ng programs overtime, yung links between programs, yung mga sinasurf mo. All of that eventually bogs down windows. Hindi na siya kasing optimize as the day it was first installed. But unlike yung months, sobrang deli lang to reset windows. That's what we call a reformat or you're basically removing your old windows installation and putting in a new one. And that's one option. But what I like to personally do is to wipe everything. Hindi lang reformat ng windows, wipe all of the data from your drives. Back up the documents or the pictures or the videos or whatever data files you need and then just nuke that drive. Wipe everything, reinstall windows. Bonus tip, after you've reinstalled windows, you're going to need to reinstall all of your old programs. There's a very simple program called Ninite which has all of the usual programs na gusto mo ng i-install dun. So, imbis na manually ka po punta to different sites to get the XFiles for download, you can compile already a list from Ninite tapos isang file na lang siya. Isang file na yun, may install mo lahat ng mga usual programs na ginagamit mo. You'd be amazed at how fast your computer becomes after a simple reinstall. If you're tech savvy, you can do this on your own. We do do this in hardware sugar for a small fee if you want to do regular maintenance with us. Tip number two, if you don't want to reinstall windows for whatever reason, actually to be honest gano din ako na sestres ako na hasal na pag reinstall na windows, napapalitan ka sa lahat ng customization features. So, I tend to let that slide. But at the very least, consider uninstalling old programs na di mo ginagamit. Uninstalling old programs gives you more space on your drives. But again, it's also just about clearing the cobwebs. Parang spring cleaning in for windows. So, mas lean na yung windows mo. Perhaps there's an old program there that somehow kind of tinkered with windows. Pag na-ininstall mayon, hopefully mawawala yung issue. So, if a reformat, if nooking your drives is not an option, at least consider going through the add-remove programs madali lang naman sa windows and uninstalling those that you don't use anymore. Third tip is to have different user accounts if a lot of people in the house are using the same computer. Pakita ako sayo. Yung makanda kasi dun, ma-cocustomize mo talaga yung computer like the basic things, what desktop icons appear and what other settings you have. And if you have a lot of users na kakalito yun na, oh, dinigay ko to kong file na to dito pero na wala na, parang ganun. So, windows actually allows you to have multiple users, magsasign in ka sa user account mo. And your settings will be saved there. It's super easy to get there. You just go to the windows, start menu, start, and then dito sa icon na to. So, ito yung shop computer namin, currently si Hardware Sugar, pero may separate user account ako dito with my own personal settings and that's mine. Si 214, di ko alam kong sinayan to be honest. But it's super easy to add somebody. So, nandito tayo, just go to change account settings. And then nandito siya sa family and other users. And nandito, add a family member. So, yung maganda dito sa create your own user accounts. Yun yan, sa save yung customization of each user. Personally, kasi when I get to my computer, I like knowing things are in the proper place na dito yung files ko, ito yung wallpaper ko. Mas, nakakainyan yung magtrabaho kasi orderly na yung mind mo. Yung order na inay expect mo, nakastructure na din yung computer mo. And to be honest, I find it very difficult to work on somebody else's computer. Kasi yung yun, the settings are supposed to help you become productive right away. Pero kung wala yung settings na yun, parang naano ako, parang nag-ajar yung mental processes ko. And it takes me a little while to adapt again. So, for a lot of users on one computer, the UAC or user account control is super useful in Windows. Fourth tip, have a folder structure in place for major projects. Uso kasi ngayon sa kabataan kung sansan na lang nagda download, kung sansan ineewan yung files. Since they trust na mas a search naman nila yun, mahahanap naman yung computer yung files. Yung problema, sobrang pangit ng search function ni Windows. For your peace of mind and productivity, mas maganda talaga kung ikaw nagsiset sa nagsisave yung files. And this also helps you organize your thoughts. And it makes the work go faster because you're better able to integrate your sources and your data. So kanikanya yun on depending on the project, depending on how you work. But just as an example for myself, I do have a dedicated YouTube folder dito sa storage code where I dump all of my YouTube data. Tapos may branching out folders from there. It's not rocket science. Everything here is related to YouTube. One important folder is clips. These are clips that I commonly use in a lot of the videos or parang magandang go-to sila. So we have the role of monitors, we have some cuts from our previous videos, recordings of file transfers, yung mga madalas gamitin or footage that I like using often. For example, itong three monitors set up namin for one build. I also keep an archive of some of our posted videos tapos naka code yun by number. Also, the thumbnails that we've used also coded by number. So madaling hanapin yung information. When I want to go back to a particular video kasi because I need footage from there, madali lang hanapin. And yung folder na projects, each individual video that I make has its own folder. Kasi dun kulina lagay yung specific files aside from the raw footage. It might also be graphics, might be animation, might be some clips that I'll only use for that video. Each video that I edit may sariling folder. Tapos hiwalay pa yung dun sa shorts which recently, ginagawan ko na nang sariling folder. And temp is where I download most of the footage na di ko pa na sort. And audio has two further folders, yung music na ginagamit namin pa ting sound effects. So your folder structure may vary depending on the project and how OCU are. Ito sobrang simplistic lang for me. But really a dedicated folder structure will help you become a lot more productive. Wag umasa dun sa search function y windows. Yung hiling tip, baka naman gusto mo talaga mag upgrade may budget naman. And there are specific parts that you can buy na bang for your buck talaga, sobrang value for money if you get a new part. And the one part that we recommend kahit anong build, kahit anong budget para kaming sirang plaka dito is to get yourself an SSD. Especially if you're coming from the old hard drives, sobrang bilis nung SSD in comparison. We have multiple videos talking about ano ba yung pangkaiba nung different versions of the SSD? Bakit siya masabilis compared to a hard drive? But for this video, all you need to know is that an SSD is very, very fast. And we really recommend it para sa quality of life mo. Ibang iba talaga siya, if you're used to an old hard drive compared to the speed of an SSD. So if your computer doesn't have one yet, you might really want to consider getting an SSD. It doesn't need to be the very fast one like your NVMe, kahit yung SATA SSD, laka na nung improvement sa speed over an old hard drive. The second type of bang for your buck upgrade is RAM. Actually for gaming, may threshold, usually 16GB is good enough for gaming, but if for yung mga productivity applications, the more RAM the better, kasi andami mo yung usually ginagawa naka bukas yung Excel mo, naka bukas yung Windows, naka bukas yung browser. Within that browser, you have 30, 50 tabs, naka bukas yung email mo. When your computer is multitasking like that, a lot of RAM will make everything smoother. So if you only have 8GB of RAM, you might want to consider upgrading to 16GB. Or if you have 16GB, talon ka sa 32GB. It doesn't need to be fancy RAM. May RAM ngayon na may RGB or may ilaw, but walang kinalaman yung ilaw sa performance. You can get relatively affordable RAM na walang ilaw. And you don't even need the fastest. Mas mahalaga yung size nung RAM. So if you're coming from 4GB of RAM, talon ka to 8GB, 8GB to 16GB, 16GB to 32GB. Again, we have previous videos talking about different RAM sizes, pwede mo ipaghalo yung RAM size yung RAM speed and all of those things. But bottom line is that bang for your bug upgrade talagay yung RAM, especially for productivity purposes. And finally, yung last upgrade na may re-recommend ko if you have the budget is to get yourself a monitor. Siguro kung may computer ka na may monitor ka na. But having a secondary monitor or having a larger monitor makes work so much easier to do. So this is a G7 Odyssey, Samsung 32-inch curved. Medyo o itong monitor na to. Samsung medyo mahal talaga siya. You don't need to buy expensive for a secondary monitor. For secondary monitors, you can get whatever is available. Make sure your computer supports a secondary monitor. So barang laking quality of life improvement din yung for work. Imagine typing up your thesis on your primary monitor tapos lilingon ka lang sa kanan mo na doon yung secondary monitor mo tas lahat nung research mo na doon na. So it's easier to input it into your thesis. Or a content ka, you're preparing a report with your primary screen, tapos on your secondary screen na doon yung actual figures na sinasamurais mo, tinatabulate mo. Or you just want to go large. A larger monitor is a lot easier for productivity because you can have multiple windows on the screen. Medyo prisi lang talaga yung monitor kahit yung mga pinakamura. But if you're looking for a quality of life upgrade, aside from the SSD, aside from the RAM, getting yourself a larger primary monitor or getting yourself a secondary monitor is really recommended. Yon, hope na katulong kong tips na to optimizing your old war horse for your new work or your new school. And congrats! It's nice that after two years finally, makakabalik tayo sa campus, makakabalik tayo sa office building. Yung makakamis na rin yung classmates mo, yung office mates mo. But you know, with that new excitement, we need to come the excitement of getting a new computer. Usually, kaya-kaya pa nung old PC yung new work. Thanks for watching. We also clean and repace GPUs. Nasamakati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site, www.hwsugar.ph, na 100% palaging up-to-date yung inventory dun. Kung instock yung item sa amin, available yung sa site. We also ship nationwide. Thanks for watching and maybe one of these days, makita tayo sa shop.