Is Windows 7 Slow? Make your Windows 7 Computer Run Fast Again
Is Windows 7 Slow? Make your Windows 7 Computer Run Fast Again
If Windows 7 is running slow you will no doubt be looking to find a few ways of speeding it up. Before installing windows 7 check out the computer requirements. Your computer should have the following.
1 GHz or faster 32 bit or 64 bit processor.
1 GB RAM (32bit) or 2 GB RAM (64bit).
16 GB space available (32bit) or 20GB (64bit).
DirectX 9 graphics with at least WDDM 1.0.
If you do not have these basic specifications you may not be able to run Windows 7. There is a tool available free from microsoft which will test your machine and let you know if it will be able to run the Windows 7 software.
As long as your computer meets these requirements you should be able to install and run Windows 7 without problems.
Many users have said that Windows 7 is slow and there are a few ways in which you can speed it up and you do not need technical knowledge to do this.
First of all you need to find out if there are programs running at start up that you don't need. If Windows 7 is loading things that you will not use often as it starts up then it is adding valuable seconds to the time it takes to start.
Click on the start button, and select run and type msconfig into the box that appears. Read the list that appears and take out those programs that you do not want to run at start-up. The obvious ones to remove are those that you will not be using often.
If you download and install the Process explorer from microsoft you will be able to see exactly what is running on your computer and you will be able to get rid of what you do not want by pressing the kill button. This works like task manager but you get more details and it is easier to use.
If you are going to upgrade from a previous version of windows to windows 7 You should run a registry scan before you upgrade. This will find any corrupt entries hiding in your computer and any registry problems which can be carried across to your upgrade. These are the problems you need to avoid that will cause windows 7 to be slow.
The other reason you may find windows 7 slow is because of malware on your computer. This can corrupt files and slow your computer right down and generate error after error. Running a system scan can detect this. Click here to run a full scan on your PC now and find out if it is infected with spyware or has a corrupt registry.