Have you experience working on a computer and suddenly it freeze and the program you are working on have crashed and you have not save your works. This may sound very frustrating especially if you have done a lot in your work and forget to save it. And if this is constantly happening on your computer, initial action that you might think is to sell your computer and buy new one or have it repaired by computer experts.
For those who are not technically skilled or does not have an idea on how to do basic troubleshooting, they might need to do a research on the internet and learn simple ways on how to troubleshoot their computer. Basically, before you use your computer make sure you have antivirus software to block all virus threats that can be acquired from storage devices such as floppy disk drives, flash drives. You also need to have anti spyware and malware that usually came from surfing the net.
If you are experiencing slows down of your computer, try to end those programs that you are not using. Check these programs on Windows Task Manager by pressing CTL ALT DEL at the same time and click the Process tab and choose those programs that you are not using to free some space on your memory. You can also check some programs installed on your computer that you do not need, uninstall it from add and remove programs.
You can also use try defragging your computer to check on your disk, but if you are familiar with you computer registry you can easily locate those hidden programs running on your computer and remove or delete those programs. Scanning your computer with your anti virus and anti spyware program can also help in improving the speed of your computer. If all fails and still did not change anything to speed up your computer then you need to upgrade your computer hardware such as hard disk drive, RAM and your computer's processor.