How To Speed Up The Performance Of Your Computer

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

By Henry Scott


When you have to submit a crucial project on a running program and your computer begins freezing up or you're having a voice chat with a loved one over Skype in a choppy sound even if your Internet connection is completely fine, it does truly annoy you, doesn't it? Here are several PC maintenance ideas you can follow to speed up a sluggish computer.

Clear out your trash bin regularly. If you continue erasing files from your drive, you know where they go directly. With these files being kept in the recycle bin indicates it still occupies space as they have only been moved to a temporary location that you can still reinstate even after deletion. So keep it bare and clean after checking its content just in case you accidentally deleted important files.

Every once in a while, look into all your installed programs and clean it out of all the ones you seldom use or no longer need. It needs correct deletion to completely remove these applications in your computer by accessing your Control Panel. Click on "Add or Remove Program" or "Programs and Features" icon and remove it from there. You can even see from there all the unused applications you've been keeping.

Arrange for a defragmentation time on all your drive partitions. This may take a while to finish, subject to the size of your drives, so be patient as it is worthwhile in the long run. If you're a heavy computer user, defrag your PC once a week. If it is not possible, then just make sure that you do a monthly PC maintenance such as defragment.

After the defragmentation process, run an "Error Checking" on all your drives as well. Same process, just select "Error Checking" rather than "Defragment" and allow this tool to scan your drives and check for corrupted or damaged files that decelerate the speed of your computer.

If you multitask and run programs all simultaneously and you've already done all the said methods but still it's not sufficient, it's time to upgrade and improve memory to enhance the overall performance of your computer system. Nevertheless, unlike the other tips, this will cost you as you would have to cough up cash for a new equipment. But the improvement this will provide is certainly worth the cash.




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