How to fix Speed Up PC

As your computer is growing older, you may become envious of those people with those shiny new computers that have crazy processors and incredibly large hard disks and tons upon tons of RAM. But, your sad computer is now running more slowly than ever, and it seems to get slower as time passes by (this is normal, as computers do age too, and they become more cluttered with files and data). So how do you speed up your computer so that it doesn’t take 10 minutes to start up and 5 minutes to open a program? Here goes!

There are several ways in which you can speed up your computer. The first is to prevent it from slowing down in the first place, and one of the biggest factors that slow down computers is spyware. Spyware runs covertly whenever you start up your computer and then collects your personal information and actions on your computer without letting you know. This could be potentially dangerous to both your safety and your computer’s health, as the spyware can have access to the passwords you type in and other information in your personal life. Thus, because of this huge risk to your confidentiality, spyware can be a big problem. Moreover, it slows down your computer because so much of it runs at one time and takes up a lot of memory and CPU. To remove spyware, you can use programs such as Windows Defender, SpyBot Search & Destroy, and Adaware.

Another way to speed up your computer is to free up some disk space. You can use the Disk Cleanup tool that comes with your computer to safely delete temporary internet files, remove downloaded ActiveX controls and Java applets, clean out your recycle bin, get rid of windows temporary files, remove windows programs or components that you don’t need, and clean up programs that you haven’t used for a long time. In order to access Disk Cleanup, you can go to Start, All Programs, then Accessories, System Tools, and click on Disk Cleanup. You will usually want to clean up the C drive. Scroll through what files you’d like to delete and put a checkmark next to the ones you don’t mind deleting; then, clear the check boxes for the files you don’t want to delete (this is important-you don’t want to lose files that you can use), and hit okay. This should free up some space and improve the performance of your computer.

You can also defragment the disk so that you can speed up your computer’s access to various data. Often, files become fragmented so that the hard disk must be searched once you open a file in order to put the file together and run a program. After defragmentation, reading and writing to the disk will be much faster. In order to make use of the disk defragmenter, go to Start, All Programs, and then Accessories, System Tools, and click on the Disk Defragmenter. You want to hit Analyze, and that will tell you which drives you want to defragment. Then, select a drive, click on defragment, and everything else will be done for you.

These methods will not guarantee a faster computer but will organize and clean up your computer so that it can be faster. It’s not harmful, and it’s better than doing nothing!