How do u speed up a slow computer?

my computer has taken forever to load and is so slow on the internet.

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  • Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

    Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!It even can speed up your computer by 300% or more!

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  • Start>>Programs>>Startup. Right-click and delete everything in there. In rare cases, there might need to be something in there (like if you are using software that authenticates with a license server. this would need to run at startup so you would be able to use the software. Most other stuff is pretty pointless). The more things you have running at startup, the slower it will load. To dig a little deeper, go to Start>>Run. Type msconfig (if you're using windows xp). Go to the Startup tab. Uncheck the boxes for stuff that looks useless. There will be some stuff that you won't recognize. If you're not sure, leave it alone. If it says "C:\program files\..." under Command, there's a good chance you can scrap it. You won't mess anything up horribly if you uncheck something that you shouldn't. It will ask you to reboot when you make changes. After the boot a screen will come up telling you that you made changes. If everything seems okay, just check "Don't Show again" (or whatever it says) and hit OK.

    Also, you might want to Run anti spyware and anti virus programs. I like Ad-aware and Spybot for spyware removal. The two work well in conjunction with each other. For antivirus, you can get Antivir, a free antivirus program. And it works pretty dang good (screw mcafee - they're in a slump right now). Doing these things might help out your internet connection.

    To make the computer faster beyond this, you might want to do some hardware upgrades. Memory prices are very good right now, so you might consider buying some more memory. It's an easy upgrade, after you figure out want kind your comptuer requires... But you can never have too much ram (as much as the computer will hold, at least).

    Beyond that, it might be time for a new computer.

  • Well there are many ways. One way is too try to delete some programs that you don't need so that way there is more memory on the computer. Another is by trying to get more ram ( Random Access Memory) Which is like memory to help run your computer. For windows XP 1gb will do you alot. Or you could always get a faster processor such as a intel core 2 duo. Which is what i have and it runs quite fast. I can multitask and do many things at once with out having to slow down. Also you said that your internet is slow. Maybe it's your internet speed. So call your Internet Service Provider and mabe ask if thy have a faster speed for you. Plus if you have a rounter soemtimes it's time to get a new one, but if you have a laptop try getting an adapter which will boost your speed. But if it were me I'd try deleting some stuuf i don't need off the computr first and see what happends. If that doesn't work than try thr other thing. Hope this helps.

  • Update and run Adaware and Spybot to flush out any malware besides your usual virus scan. How much RAM do you have? An upgrade might help. It might also just be a fragmented drive thats retarding the speed. High levels can make the PC run slow and also lead to all kinds of stability issues. If you have less than 15% free space, it might be a problem to defrag with the built in, although some commercial tools manage with far lesser free space. You can google for some trial versions. Run diskcleanup,( or else download CCleaner) to delete temp files, recycle bin files etc., uninstall unwanted programs and also run chkdsk. Reduce the number of items on ur startup list to reduce load time.

  • Ok First dont listen to the other answers Dont get me wrong there not bad but theres better ways to do this and You dont have to reinstall you roperating system unless your system wont boot.Go to start>Run Type Prefetch then hit enter a window will open then press ctrl+A everything in the prefetch windows should turn blue highlited Now Press Ctrl+D you might get a conformationg asking if you are sure you want to delete these xxxx items click yes then after there all gone close that window and right click the recyclew bin select properties then move the slider bar all the way to the left so that there is no disk space taken by it.Click Apply then Ok.Now Lets Go to Start>All Programs>Accesories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup Chose the C: dorve then click yes to any warnings/Conformations check all boxes when the disk cleanup window opens.Ok Now lets Go to The Start>Run>Msconfig>startup>Uncheck anything thats not a firewall anti virus/spyware sound drive Etc Anything you need to run your computer properly then click apply>Close it will ask to restart the computer go ahead and restart it.When it starts booting right away pres F8 untill you get a screnn that has a list of options boot in to safe mode after your in the system lets go to Start>All Programs>Accesories>System Tools>Disk Defragment Then Select The C: Drive to defrag this will take a while depending upon the size of the Harddrive Very important do not use the computer while it is running defrag. After it competes if it show any more dirve letters Like D: E: Etc defrag those to and after all complete restart the system like you would normally.After everything loads A window will pop up saying you have used the system config tool check the box and click ok.NOW YOUR READY TO GO. If it is still slow after all this work please feel free to contact me at my email addres anytime [email protected]

  • One of the main reason that lead to a slow computer is the fragmented computer registry. Clean up computer registry can speed up the computer.

    Over time, you install new programs, uninstalled unimportant programs, update software, download files from the internet and delete them when you do not need them.

    This is normal, to avoid the bad influence it left on our computer, we need to clean up our registery regularly to speed our slowing down computer.

    Among registry cleaners on the market, Amigabit registry cleaner is one of the best choice, I have used it for years, works well for me.

  • Several ways to speed up your computer.

    1. Get a faster processor

    2. Increase the amount of RAM

    3. Do a virus scan

    4. Reinstall the operating system (only needs to be done when everything else fails)

  • back up ur information and attempt to repair dwelling house windows with a dwelling house windows disk if it do not paintings format the computing gadget or right here is the desirable Ten assistance to strengthen Your dwelling house windows gadget extra rapid: enable your laptop boot up thoroughly formerly establishing any purposes. Refresh the computing gadget after last any application. this might do away with any unused data from the RAM. do not set very super record length photographs as your wallpaper. do not keep a wallpaper in any respect in the experience that your laptop is low on RAM (decrease than sixty 4 MB). do not clutter your computing gadget with a brilliant variety of shortcuts. each and every shortcut on the computing gadget makes use of as much as 500 bytes of RAM Empty the recycle bin often. The data at the instant are not likely deleted out of your difficultpersistent until eventually you empty the recycle bin. Delete the momentary cyber web data often. Defragment your difficultpersistent as quickly as each and every 2 months. this might unlock a brilliant variety of area on your difficultpersistent and rearrange the data so as that your purposes run quicker. consistently make 2 partitions on your difficultpersistent. set up all super Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) interior the 2d partition. dwelling house windows makes use of each and every of the available empty area in Cpersistent as digital reminiscence whilst your computing gadget RAM is done. keep the Cpersistent as empty as conceivable. whilst installation new Softwares disable the alternative of having a tray icon. The tray icons deplete available RAM, and likewise decelerate the booting of your laptop. additionally disable the alternative of beginning the applying quickly whilst the laptop boots. you may disable those innovations in an prolonged time additionally from the strategies or alternatives menu on your application. preserve your laptop from dirt. dirt motives the CPU cooling fan to jam and decelerate thereby progressively heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dirt from the CPU. in no way use vacuum. observe: RAM IS THE working area (computing gadget) OF THE CPU, keep IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS conceivable!

  • Hi,

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    It's a very good program and easy to use.

    Bye

  • Run an antivirus and antispyware, like Adaware and Spybot S&D (one by one, not all of them at the same time) and a program like Tune Up Utilities.

    Also defragmenting your HDD will help.

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