Slow PC - How to Speed Up Your Slow PC

Do you feel that you are always using a slow PC which runs like a snail? Do you want to speed up your slow PC quickly without paying too much? I may help you! By following the guidelines here, you will see an increase on your computer speed.

1. Free up more disk space.
This is the best and the easiest way to speed up your slow computer because the useless programs, files on the hard drive will waste precious system resources, and memory that needed for the programs that you exactly want. So to get faster computer speed, do remember to try your best to release more available disk space.

1) Clean junks. To accomplish this, you can directly use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup utility which helps to easily get rid of useless system junk files safely: right click the drive that you want to clean up to select "Properties", General, and press "Disk Cleanup" to begin the process.
2) Uninstall the programs that you do not want and consider using some external drives to store the programs that you download. The fewer programs you have on your system drive, the faster your computer will be.

2. Defragment your computer.
Over time, you hard drive will get messy as we uninstall programs and remove files. Once the hard drive becomes fragmented, it will consume more time for the he hard disk heads to reach what it wants and result in slow computer. Disk defragmentation will get files that related to others close together and then much easier to be accessed to. To defragment your hard disk, please go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and run Disk Defragmenter to proceed.

3. Eliminate unneeded startup programs and services.
We know that no matter what program we are using, it will recall and take up a certain amount of system/ CPU resource, memory. If too many programs load at one time, they will overload your memory and system resources which results in slow PC inevitably. To limit the startup programs, please go to "Start", Run-> type "MSconfig" and press "Enter" to access System Configuration Utility, go to Startup and then Services tab to disable the unneeded startup programs and services.

4. Security problem.
We know that computer is very easy to be infected by Viruses /spyware, which are widely known to take up system resources and make PC run slowly. To speed up your slow PC or avoid a slow PC, it is recommended that you can install some anti-virus/ spyware programs and run them regularly to make sure that the computer is well protected.

5. Other tricks to speed up PC.

1) Optimize bios settings to make it "Boot from Hard drive".
2) Modify Windows registry to reduce prefetch and progress bar's waiting time.
3) Turn off the special visual effects.

Expect the the tips above, there are still some ways for you to easily speed up your slow computer. If you find that your computer still runs slowly even though you have tried what you can, simply go here for more assistance.