Speed up your PC

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1. System Performance

First, you'll need to open Control Panel and select System. Once on the System window select the Advanced tab.

In the Peformance box click the Settings button, It'll give you 4 options now. Select Adjust for best performance. Then select Apply.

You'll notice your whole windows theme changes, the theme can be changed back by going to the Display option under Control Panel.

Once complete this will allow your system to run slightly faster, due to that some of the fancy graphics effects have been removed. I doubt

your even notice there gone.

2. Disk Cleanup

This ones a very common tool. Go access it go to the Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools then Disk Cleanup.

Once selected it will calculate how much space will be able to free, this may take a few minutes. Once calculated it will list all the file

categorys that can be cleaned up. I'd recommend checking them all, once selected click OK. A new box will open and your computer will start to

remove any unnecessary files. Once completed the box will automatically close. This proccess speeds up your system by freeing up some space on

your hard drive. A hard drive with more space genuinely tends to run a bit faster.

3. Disk Defragment

Another commond one used to clean up the hard drive. To access this go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools then Disk Defragmenter.

Select the hard drive you wish to defrag. Then select the Defragment button. It will then analyze the drive then start to defrag.

Basically what this tool does is moves all the files so they're organised correctly in the right strutchure. This will help speed up the PC and free up some space.

4. Remove Spyware

A bit speed killer can be spyware, some computers are full of it and never removed! Not only does spyware slow down your computer it is also dangerous!

A good free spyware removal programs is Lavasofts Ad-Aware. It can be downloaded here: http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php . Once downloaded and

installed. I'd recommend a full system scan asap. This can be done by opening the program (normally a icon on desktop), select Scan System,

select tab Full Scan then clicking the Scan Now button. The scan could take some time. It will indicate what spywarehas been found, once completed. It will

give you the option to remove, make sure all the bad files are checked for removal. Then select OK to finish the process.

Now that the spyware has been removed your computer should be able to run slightly more faster and safer.

5. Startup Programs

When logging onto your PC it can take ages to load. This is due to all the programs starting up on startup. Programs can be stopped from running when

logging on. Go to Start, Run and enter "msconfig" and click Enter. A new box called System Configuration will appear, go to the Startup tab.

Here you will see all the programs that run on startup (they'll be checked). You can uncheck the programs you do not wish to run on startup by.

You may find it best to remove all. Once unchecked click Ok, restart the computer and see for yourself.

This process kills off all the unwanted programs running in the background allowing your computer to run faster, another good tip is to allways close

down programs your not using.

 

6. Manual Clear Up

Like said before your computer will run faster when theres less files on the hard drive. A good idea is to go through your computer and remove any

unused files, these can be videos, music, pictures etc. Just remove them and remember to empty the recycle bin. Another good idea is to remove any

unwanted programs, to do this go to Control Panel then Add or Remove Programs. Once on this you can select what program you want to remove, once selected

click Remove. The program will then go through the removal progress. This should free up some space on your hard drive.