How can I speed up my computer? I hear this question all the time. You might be defragging your computer, deleting your temporary internet files and running a spyware removal program and it is still slow. All of those things are important to keeping your computer running well, and fast. Sometimes it is just not enough.
What else can you do? One thing is check your storage space. If you harddrive it approaching full it will seriously slow your system down. Your computer needs some space on your drive for file paging, a swap file and various other functions it performs. If it doesn’t have enough space it will be very, very slow. So clear away the files and programs you can do without and it would go a long way to speeding things up. So what if you harddrive has plenty of space and you are still slow?
You could be running a ton of extra programs on your system and not know it. As time goes by people install programs that start when windows starts and stay resident in the memory. Things like instant messengers, software updating programs from Kodak, Compaq, and HP. Perhaps that instant weather reporting program. These things accumulate and have a huge effect on how fast your computer performs. It’s like starting off a juggler with 3 bean bags and adding a new one everyday for a month, at some point you just can’t do it anymore. So what can you do?
You can do 2 things, either one or both. Number 1 stop using all of those programs when windows starts. just turn them on when you need them and then shut them off again. How? You can uninstall some you don’t really use to start off with. Next if you are familiar with msconfig, you can click on your start button type msconfig into the run box ( this will work with both Windows XP and Windows Vista ) click on the start tab and deselect the programs you don’t want to run on startup. If you are not sure what in the world you are looking at, as you look at some of program names, you can type them into Google and find out then you will know what to do. When you finish you will reboot, if you get a message on reboot about the changes you have made just check the box that says don’t tell you about it anymore and click ok. You should have a lean, mean, and fast computer.
Number 2 you can add system memory. Putting more ram into a computer is the cheapest easiest way to speed it up. It is like adding more arms to the juggler. If you don’t know what memory that you need go to Crucial.com they have a utility that will scan your computer and help you get exactly what you need. If you combine these two steps you should have a top performing fast computer system that can do everything you need.
I hope this helps you have the fast stable computer system that you need. If you have other things you do to speed up a slow computer, let me know about it, share a comment that might help someone else.
