subject: How to increase a PC's overall performance [print this page] How to increase a PC's overall performance
PC's performance is one of the most burring issues today with almost all the PC are being used. Reasons may be vary but the outcome comes out the performance is poor or PC infected. I have experienced that in most cases infection plays a vital role to slower down any PC's performance and infection mainly comes from the Internet. In the Internet there are plenty of infections are spreading like Viruses, spyware, Trojan horses. I have mentioned few very essential steps that can change the performance of your Internet connection and overall PC's performance in a radical ways and you can become PC Doctor for your own computer.
1. Clear cookies- If you are ad infinitum using your Internet browser it gathers cookies. Nonetheless a great amount of cookies can cause slow PC or slow Internet connection problems. So once in a while you need to clear them to keep your browser fit and load free.
2. Use any good antivirus and anti Spyware program to remove any infection from your PC- This is one of the most prominent reasons behind all PC's performance and speed and causes may problems in PCs, that is a Virus, Malware or Adware entry in your computer. Any infection in your PC such as Virus, Malware or Adware entries present in the system affect entire PC's speed and it causes a Slow PC, poor performing and of course slow browsing as well.
3. Clear history-: If you use your Internet browser for a long while or sometime even for a month. These files may also cause slow PC and in result you may experience slow PC and poor Internet connection issue.
4. Check settings for your firewall-: Firewalls are first-rate to protect your PC and data and very helpful from system's security standpoint. It unquestionably resists and do not let any doubtful or unsafe entry into your computer. On the other hand sometime few firewalls may convert your computer into a Slow PC. It hinders many system processes as well and takes a long while to check all the processes are going on even in the background.
5. Remove unnecessary programs from your PC-: Although this position counts up in slow PC issue but it has equal relation with slow internet browsing speed.
6. An alternate to Perform a System Restore if needed- If it is necessary and you are experiencing slow PC or slow browsing issue newly and it was fine before I would suggest you go straightway to perform System Restore so that any changes made to the PC can be reverted and system will come in the previous state where it was working well.
7. Get your Internet connection speed tested with any speed tester website-: Always Test your Internet connection with the help of any good speed testing website because it is probable that your browser or there is no slow PC issue in your computer but it is the speed from your ISP end that is not good enough.
8. Change your existing browser in case it does freeze or does not work-: Changing browser is also one of the options if slow Internet persists. Personally I would suggest for Google's new browser Google Chrome; it is faster than any other browser currently available in the market.
9. Always clear temporary Internet files in a regular interval-: Temporary Internet files not only can cause slow browsing issue but it may also create slow PC issue as we. Removing them is advisable after a certain interval.
