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5 ways in which you can speed up your computer

Topic: SoftwarePublished March 22, 2012

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When you bought your personal computer, you must have been totally amazed at the speed at which it accomplished tasks. However, over a period of time, your pc appears to be slowing down in overall performance and you end up being clueless as to what is causing it to slow down. The slowing down in speed of the computer may be due to a wide variety of conflicts. If you are looking for ways to make your computer faster then the following 5 tips will certainly help you. 1) Defragment your hard disc drive - Defragment the hard disk frequently (every two weeks is ideal) to make sure that your hard drive has sufficient space for storage and that files are accessed more quickly. This could make the computer or laptop even faster. 2)Spyware/adware and Virus scan - Scanning your computer regularly is often beneficial and will certainly boost the performance of your pc. Spyware may possibly store a person's information and utilise it for their very own uses. Loof for a software program in the market which can help to detect and remove the infection such as Webroots Spy Sweeper or Avast Antivirus. 3)Clean up your system registry - If your laptop or desktop is cluttered with documents then most definitely it could make your machine slow. Clean your registry every so often. Resolve the errors inside registry while you are at it. The things you do on your pc gets recorded in your registry; every photo you accessed along with their paths and each bit of data you may have sent is registered. Windows Vista and windows XP is not very good at repairing the registry by itself. It's best if to help your pc by doing this work yourself. 4)Free hard drive space - To boost the over-all performance of your laptop or desktop you should free storage space. Which means emptying the recycle bin, cleaning out temporary internet files, downloading all of your required files and documents on to a portable drive and uninstalling whatever applications that you do not use anymore and are just sitting there eating up precious hard disk space. rn5)Unnecessary start up programs and services - Many unnecessary applications and services switch themselves on when you're getting your computer to boot up. This will not only decrease the speed of the boot up process, but it might also make slower all of the other functions. There are applications and serivces that sometimes enter into the boot-up software without you recognising it and removing them might not be possible without the help of a third party software. So these are the 5 tips that you can try on your home or office PC to get your computer running as smoother and faster as when you first bought it. If you're looking for more tips on how to speed up your computer, check out my website here.

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Orpheus Da Silva is a computer enthusiast and writes about topics related to computers and mobile phones for a local tech magazine. He is also the editor of howtospeedupyourcomputer.net, a website dedicated to providing information on making computers faster.

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