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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Help, My Computer Is Running Slow - How To Speed Up Your Slow Computer Now

Has the lightening fast dependable computer you once had slowed down to a crawl? Do you wait for it to simply boot up or to even shut down for minutes at a time, not to mention actually opening or closing programs? Do you have to deal with an increasing number of confusing error messages and possibly even blue screen errors? Well, there are few things that you can do for your computer without having to rely on calling a technician and paying large fees to speed up a computer running slow.
One of the most common problems with a computer is actually the lack of effective and up to date security software. Not having it on your computer and keeping it up to date can severely decrease your computer's
ability to do virtually anything because often times malware and viruses run silently in the background, either subjecting you to a number of pop up messages or causing all kinds of issues on your computer you would not normally have. So do yourself a favor, protect your computer.
Next, you need to take a long look at the list of programs your computer has on it. Depending on how long you have had your computer this list may be quite long, but how many of those programs do you actually use on a regular basis? I am sure not many of them. If there are programs that you no longer use on your computer, go ahead and uninstall them. Not only will this free up space on your hard drive allowing it to run faster but also you will free up system resources that are being used up in the background as the programs runs silently.
Lastly, let's talk about the registry. I cannot tell you how important it is to keep your computers registry running smoothly. The registry allows for the whole computer to run faster. It's designed to keep track of every file and setting on the computer so should something be needed the computer knows almost instantly where that files is located on the hard drive and these errors will result in your computer running slow.
But what happens if the entries in the registry become corrupted or go missing. Well, the lowest form of this problem is that your computer simply slows down. This is because it has to physically look for files on the hard drive instead of knowing exactly where they are. As the problems progress though and things get worse, you can actually begin getting serious errors and other issues. Eventually your computer may just refuse to boot up into anything other than safe mode.
So just like the security software and the hard drive clean up, scanning and cleaning up your registry is important to stop your computer running slow without any problems. Best of all, with a good system and registry scanner, all it takes is a few clicks of the mouse and everything is done.

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