How To Make Your Computer Run Faster - Part One
There are 3 facts of life
There are 3 facts of life. You will die, you will have to pay taxes and your computer will run more slowly as it gets older. As time goes by computers get cluttered. Old files that are not deleted. Old programs that have been installed, that are no longer used. Redundant software that still runs in the background and even starts on boot up. Even programs that you didnt mean to install in the first place! They are all taking up valuable space, tying up your resources and inevitably causing your computer to run more slowly than it is capable of.
A few ideas to make your computer run faster
Uninstall unwanted programs
Think about what you would want to keep from your computer if you were buying a new one. This concentrates the mind wonderfully. You will find that youll probably only want to keep a few programs and the rest is photos and music files. So, most of the other stuff on your computer is junk. So start here. Go to Start > Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a Program. Have a look through the programs and right click Uninstall any of those you dont need any more. Youll find a lot of programs in there that you never knew you had. Apple is a company I find installs all sorts of extra junk with their downloads. If youve installed iTunes youll probably have 5 others that came with it. The same for Adobe always installing some nonsense on your PC they only have one good program and they bought that from someone else.
Anyway, uninstall what you dont need and youve saved a whole heap of resources.
Clean up your start up folder
When you switch your computer on, it loads the BIOS and then Windows. Windows looks in the Startup folder to see what programs to boot up first. These are programs that you want to have access to as soon as possible. Except thats not always the case.
Full of their own self importance and the importance of the software they have created, programmers instruct their software to write themselves into the Startup folder and boot up as soon as the Operating System is loaded.
Every program in that startup folder is going to take time to open. If youve got 10 in there, its no surprise you have time for a wash a change from when you switched your computer on until the time its ready to do any work.
Most of them do not need to be opened straight away. iTunes for instance. Other culprits are printing software like Epson, Google, the dreaded Adobe, mobile phone software such as Nokia, and web cam software. They can all start when you want to use them. They dont need to be open by default.
So, go to Start > Run and type 'msconfig' then clickOK. This will open the System Configuration Utilitywindow. Click theStartuptab then un-check the boxes next to any programs that you don't want to run automatically whenWindowsstarts. I suggest being fairly ruthless. As a rule of thumb, look in the Command column. If it starts with c:Windows leave it alone. Leave anything from Intel, your computer manufacturer like Dell, or generally Microsoft. Everything else is fair game. Just untick it.
The consequences of getting it wrong arent that drastic if youre half competent with a computer. Critical system processes arent usually accessible from the startup folder, anyway. If you do get any problems open Windows in Safe mode and tick all the boxes in the startup folder again.
This will certainly speed up your computer from boot up.
These 2 suggestions alone should speed up your computer. Go and do them today and then look out for part 2 tomorrow.
by: Stephen Drummonsy
How To Avoid Typical Smell From Memory Foam? Why You Need To Protect Your Computer From These 3 Nasty Threats Should You Use Uprinting? The Origin Of Memory Foam Resolving Error- disk I/o Error During Read In Ms Access How To Speed Up Your Computer? Review Of Wondershare Usb Drive Encryption: Portable Encryption Tool Cleansing Programs for IBS Sufferers Ramsey 3 days supports text messages received 50,000 pupils, said after he recovered more What's a Duplicate File Finder? Mac Laptops Need One Different Forms of Wholesale Memory Cards FREE Daniusoft DVD To MP4 Converter Serial Key And License Code Wholesale Memory Cards for Playstation Portable - Selecting The Right 1
www.yloan.com
guest:
register
|
login
|
search
IP(216.73.216.163) California / Anaheim
Processed in 0.023247 second(s), 7 queries
,
Gzip enabled
, discuz 5.5 through PHP 8.3.9 ,
debug code: 28 , 3688, 55,