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It's a question that I hear from folks all the time. Why is my computer so slow? I tell them the same thing. Our computers are like any other machine. It needs constant maintenance in order to perform at a high level. Auto experts recommend having your car tuned up three months. Yet when our computer runs slow we simply buy a new one.
Whether your PC is a dinosaur or the newest piece of wizardry on the market, if you go on the Internet (and obviously you do if you're reading this), your computer will get slower with time for one reason: Spyware. It's impossible to figure out how many companies out there are tracking you, but it is easy to shut them down (and keep your PC running faster) by installing a anti-spyware program. PC Magazine's #1 Editor's Choice for bumping off the thugs who track you is Spyware Doctor (pctools.com/spyware-doctor.com). It's free, as is Spybot (safer-networking.org/index2.html), another highly rated program. And don't forget to install or update your anti-virus programs, which are more malicious to your computer. AVG Free (free.avg.com) is an easy-to-use program to keep things running.
Get rid of Windows eye candy, the visual settings that don't do much except slow your work down. The best way to accelerate your PC is to let Windows know you'd like the best performance possible please. You do this by accessing the Control Panel, clicking on System, click on the "Advanced" tab, then click the "Performance" option. Under "Visual Effects," select "Adjust For Best Performance." Click the OKs necessary, and you should see a speedier (and maybe cleaner-looking) computer the next time you boot up.
To truly optimize your computer, the Internet is chock-full of free clean-up utilities -- to do all the tasks you might not know about or be able to find without a 500-page reference book at your side. One of the best all-around utilities for speeding up your hardware is Glary Utilities, a program that finds all the junk files, invalid registry entries and pieces of information that do nothing but slow your PC down. It's free, and after a first run-through, your computer will be (almost) clean as a whistle.
These simple tips to speed up computer system could go a long way. Somehow, it must be learn by the user because of the following reason. First, it is cheaper to buy a new PC unit. Then, it is something that you can be proud of, that you yourself have done something to speed up computer system.
