subject: 3 Sure-Fire Ways to Speed Up the Computer [print this page] 3 Sure-Fire Ways to Speed Up the Computer
How to increase the speed of a computer?There are many ways that you can do this, but the most effective and simple way to do is the one that most people neglected to do.I will give you 3 sure-fire ways to speed up computer.
1)Uninstalling Unwanted And Unused Applications
It seems to be easier than ever to download stuff of the internet. Applications such as freeware, shareware and free trials make it so easy for us to download it, install it, used it once and forgot about it the next day. Surely, all of these applications won't harm your computer just by letting it sit in your hard drive, right?
If you think that is so, you are wrong. These applications, same as unused files takes up disk space from your hard drive, and some applications even loads utilities at startup to make your Windows startup take longer to load. So remove all of these unnecessary applications as this will increase the speed of computer.
2)Defragmenting Your Hard Drive
Over time, your hard drive will store files differently, in order of last used. And this can make your files scattered across your hard drive, and making your Windows take longer to load.
So use the Disk Defragmenter tool to make your files in order again and it will surely increase the speed of computer. The defragmenting process can take up to 2 hours to 12 hours and more. If you have not defrag your drive recently, be prepared to let it run overnight, and make sure that there are no other programs running in the background.This can also make you PC fast.
3)Clear up your registry.
We may think we are Steve Jobs' next protg, but no one can comb through their entire gigabyte libraries and weed out all the loose temp files, all the bad program installs, all the trailing DLL's and system files no one is using. Build up of temporary internet files, image files, online cookies, active x controls all build up over time. Even the registry, after a few months, becomes a sand dune of bad values, orphaned embedded keys and a scratch surface of infiltrating worms and Trojans to corrupt its structure and cause an ultimate slowdown of your computer.It is a good way to speed your computer up.
If you have followed the methods mentioned above, it is able to speed up computer problems to a certainty.
