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| Is your computer updated? Make sure your computer is updated. If you are using Microsoft then this is the first thing you should do. Visit www.update.microsoft.com. You can set your computer to update automatically too. Learn more. Click Start -> Control Panel -> Double Click > Automatic Updates Icon Do you have ad ware? Remove ad ware. Lavasoft has a free trial version. Ad ware is short for "advertising software". If you have pop ups that seem to appear for no reason this is one of the symptoms of ad ware. Is there spy ware on your computer? Spy ware is another form of ad ware but this one borders on privacy invasion. It monitors your internet habits and sells them to advertisers. There are other types of spy ware. Mal ware short for malicious software is designed to steal user ids, passwords, bank account information, and even your identity. Spy ware will do more than make your computer slow. Try Defender from Microsoft. It's free and does a good job of not only making your slow computer faster, but keeping you safe from hackers and thieves. Is your registry clean? You have to clean your registry. Over time your registry becomes disorganized and needs to be organized. You may have deleted documents, pictures, and files but your registry may not have gotten the message. Easy Cleaner is a free registry cleaner. Do you perform basic computer maintenance? Clean out your temporary files, defrag your hard drive, and clean up your disk space. Or you can click on the following and just have it done for your automatically: DMHD Do you think you have computer virus? A computer virus is a computer program designed to infect your computer and cause as much damage as possible. You can avoid getting a computer virus for the most part. Be careful what you down load and what sites you visit. This will decrease the odds of your computer becoming infected. Do you have fragmented files? A fragmented hard drive will make your computer slow. Defragging your slow computer may boost your system performance significantly. It's not hard at all. All you do is this: Click START > Click All Programs > Click Accessories > Click System Tools > Click Disk Fragmenter It may take a long time to run if you have not run this tool before or have not used it in a long time. How's your memory? As technology advances the standards go up. And as you may already know technology has been advancing at a rapid pace in the 21st century. As of 2008 it is recommended you carry at least one gigabyte of RAM. Check your RAM. If you have under a gigabyte then upgrade your memory. Do you have a lot of unused Data If you have a lot of photos then get a flash memory card. You can store several gigs of data on these little gadgets and it does not cost much. Keeping all your data on your hard drive will make your computer slow. If you have photos you never look at, games you never play, and documents you never read, then put them on a flash drive and put them in a safe place. You will appreciate this when you get a new computer too. You will already have the the files you care about the most already somewhere safe. Is your computer over 5 Years Old? If you got 4 years out of your computer consider that great! Going into the fifth year the performance begins to slow down. Some of us have even reformatted our slow computer to factory settings and for a week or two it seems like a new computer again. However the repeated use over five years has taken it's toll will make your computer slow. |
