How To Speed Up Your Computer
If your PC has slowed down you need to find out what is causing it and
fix it quickly before the problem becomes worse. If you do not fix it,
what starts off as minor problem can quickly prevent Windows from running at all.
One of the first indication anyone gets that there is a problem with their
computer is when they try to do the following.
- Open a web browser.
- Open a program.
- Open a document.
These are all memory intensive and if there is a lack of memory or errors
within windows you will notice any of these actions take a very long time to
complete. This means you could be sitting there repeatedly clicking on your
documents browser or program and then suddenly multiple copies open.
If you are experiencing this problem here is what you need to do. You firstly
need to find out if it is a memory problem or Windows related, or both, by
doing the following: 1) Press the ctrl-alt-del keys on your keyboard at the
same time. Then on the box that appears in the middle of your screen click on
task manager. You then want to click on the performance tab. You will then see
a where it says physical memory. Ignore everything else you see and just look
at free memory. 2) If this figure is less than 250000 you need to free up
some memory. This is how you do it:
- Remove any programs you are not using or do not use. What happens is many
of them are loaded into memory when windows starts and even if they are not,
some of the files required to run them are and this eats away at the memory,
slowing your PC to a crawl.
- The second problem is related to the
Windows Registry.
This is where all the
settings for Windows and all your hardware are stored and problems in the
registry, even if you cannot see them, are displayed in Windows as error
messages, crashing and freezing and other strange behaviour.
Manually editing these entries is not a good idea as you can make things worse. The
best thing to do is to run a free registry scan, which will find all these errors
quickly and let you fix them automatically. This will make your PC run faster and
error free in a matter of minutes.
If you have a slow computer here is the #1 solution
to speed up your computer;
this is guaranteed
to make your computer faster.
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