How to Fix an Extremely Slow Computer

How to Fix an Extremely Slow Computer

Author: John Barber

After you get your new computer, you remember how fast it was and without any errors. But after time of using it, downloading files, installing programs, and surfing the Internet, you find yourself with extremely slow computer. What are the reasons that turn fast computer into extremely slow computer? Even if you purchase a good computer model, your find that your computer performance is slow that it was at the beginning.

There are many factors that cause extremely slow computer. Instead of reinstalling your operating system, or upgrading your computer hardware, let's review some of the important, and apply tips that will speed up your computer.


Clean and Defrag you Disk

If you have extremely slow computer, then you should clean and defrag your disk. Windows has tools for cleaning your disk and defrags it.

•Disk Cleanup â€" You can run it from System Tools menu under the Accessories menu. The Disk Cleanup can cleanup all junk data from your computer, and it can speed up your hard drive by free up space.

•Disk Defragment â€" Run it from the System Tools. The Disk Defragment tool can defragment your disk which means organize all your files and folders in continuous chunks of physical memory, which can save significantly the time your hard drive makes IO operations.

Remove Spywares

Clean and defrag your disk may not be enough to speed up extremely slow computer. You should also scan and clean all the Spywares from your computer. Using security programs like McAfee or free programs like Ad-Aware and SpyBot, you can clean your computer from Spyware and to speed up your computer. Spywares not only does consume your computer resources like network bandwidth, and CPU time, but also steal passwords and other private information from your computer.

Clean the Registry

Lastly, there may be a problem in your windows registry. The Windows operating system registry is a database that stores settings about your hardware, operating system, applications and users. Corrupted Windows registry may cause an extremely slow computer, and to may other errors on your computer like PC system freezes or even PC system crashes. Registry software cleaner is the type of software that will scan your computer registry and clean all the errors inside.

Summary

By these 3 steps you can take extremely slow computer and turn it to be optimized with speed, which will save your time, and also makes your computer more stable and protect you privacy.

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