by Alex

My computer is slow, much slower than when I first bought it.

This is the number one complaint from most users. There are several reason why this happens. Most can be attributed to lack of maintenance. Fragmented data, corrupted registry, spyware, and load of unnecessary programs and services can all eat away at your PC speed and performance. Manage your programs and cleaning your registry would easily award you a large boost gain in performance speed.

1. Use a Registry Cleaner.

Registy cleaners free up resources and boost performance with just a few clicks. These easy point and click programs also defrag your hard drive and remove spyware. All that with the push of a button weekly will keep your computer running at it’s original PC speed specs. There are dozens of different registry cleaners software and registry cleaner tools available for use with the registry.

2. Defrag your hard drive

Over time, the data on your hard drive gets scattered. De-fragmenting your hard drive puts your data back into sequential order, making it easier for Windows to access it. As a result, the performance of your computer will improve. Remember that the hard drive is the cornerstone of your system. If it is in trouble your system can collapse.

3. Remove viruses and spyware

Possibly the most devastating nuisance to a computer, spyware and viruses can drag your computer to a crawl if you let them. They wreak havoc on it’s central nervous system by duplicating themselves so they cannot be deleted and steal personal information such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, etc. This can be combated by scanning with reputable virus and spyware scanners such as ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Malwarebytes Antimalware.

4. Adjust your computer’s Visual effects

Windows provides a number of resource hogging and interesting visual effects like animated windows and fading menus. These effects, however, can slow down your computer and kill your PC speed. By altering your preferences and performance needs you can increase processing speed in seconds.

Right click desktop, click Properties.

5. Use a Window’s Optimization Tool

Using a Windows Optimization tool can give you a big boost in the the performance department. This takes the work out of your regular maintenance of organizing files, defragging your hard drive and other optimization task.

6. Manage Your Startups

By managing your Windows startup programs and services you can free of vital CPU resources that can re-allocated your PC performance. This is a quick and easy tweak learn how to speed up PC CPU access time.

Start > Run

Type “msconfig”.
Click startup tab.
Uncheck unwanted programs. Remember to do your research before deciding which programs are unnecessary.

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