Nothing is more frustrating in life than sitting around on a computer that runs too slow. It wastes your valuable time and can quickly change anyone’s good mood to a bad one. Below are five tips that can help speed up your computer, and ensure that your day is spent getting things accomplished rather than waiting for your computer to load.
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Do a RAM Space Checkup
It’s important to check out how much RAM your computer actually has because media files today require a lot more of it. If your computer is somewhat dated, then it may be time to upgrade your RAM space. If your computer does not have much RAM space, then it is a smart idea to only run one or two programs on your PC at a time.
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Uninstall Unneeded Programs
Everyone is guilty of downloading a program and only using it once or twice. Go through your computer and delete any programs that aren’t used. This helps clear the memory space for your more important programs. It will also help your computer to run faster because it doesn’t have to search through tons of data.
Run a Registry Cleaner Program
There are tons of free and paid registry cleaners available. It’s believed that most computer problems that aren’t caused by viruses are all related to registry errors. One of these programs can clear your registry of errors and help your computer to run significantly faster.
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Run a Defragment Cycle
This isn’t used on computers as much today, but many PC’s still have this function that can make your computer run faster without making any drastic changes. Enter the “My Computer” section and then open up your Local Disk. There you will see a Tools tab that will guide you through this process step by step.
Clear Your Unneeded Data
Whether you are aware of it or not, your computer is constantly saving new data anytime you go online. This racks up a lot of data that takes up valuable space on your computer. By deleting temporary files and erasing cookies, you can free up a lot of memory space. While you are performing these steps it is a smart idea to also adjust the settings to ensure that your computer isn’t storing excessive data.
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Shawn McBrian is a guest blogger from Techplz a site dedicated to gadgets and the latest technology news.
5 Little Known Ways to Speed up your Computer,
Vijay
Jul 11. 2011
When my PC run slowly, I hate the things that my mind set up changes automatically and that day is totally waste.
Here is what I do is, I don’t enter unwanted or protected sites since it produce ‘N’ number of malwares.
So first of all protect ourselves is a best way to prevent the trouble.
TechCrates
Jul 11. 2011
Thanks for stopping by and commenting 🙂
shashank chinchli
Jul 12. 2011
I use SOLUTO to avoid launching of unwanted apps during BOOting process of Windows.
TechCrates
Jul 12. 2011
Good to know that….. Thanks for stopping by my blog 😉
JK_techtrickz
Jul 12. 2011
Usually I use Ccleaner for sweeping garbage from my PC to speed up it. Nice and useful tips. Thanks.
TechCrates
Jul 12. 2011
You’re welcome …. 🙂
Mukundan Srinivasan
Jul 12. 2011
RAM Space check and defragment works best in improving the speed. I do it twice a month.
TechCrates
Jul 12. 2011
Seeing you after a long time here …. Anyways thanks for commenting !! 🙂
Olawale Daniel
Jul 16. 2011
Yeah! That’s very much true. You need to defragment your PC and after that you will be able to get the best result from it. Thanks for this awesome tips.
TechCrates
Jul 16. 2011
Thanks to our guest blogger for this wonderful post 🙂
Praveen Kumar
Jul 12. 2011
Wow, Amazing post man, I really appreciate your content. The article has really peaks my interest.
TechCrates
Jul 12. 2011
Thanks for commenting 😉
karan
Jul 13. 2011
:O this reminded me that i need to run a disk defrag soon:)
TechCrates
Jul 13. 2011
Good to know that this article reminded you …. 🙂
Eric Murphy
Jul 14. 2011
these tricks are awesome.
TechCrates
Jul 14. 2011
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Ramcel
Jul 16. 2011
This is very timely. I am about to do some housekeeping on my laptop because it’s been dragging me down on my blogging. It runs or rather walks like a turtle now.
These tips will be truly helpful to me. I got my blog running fast, it’s about time I get my laptop to run!
TechCrates
Jul 16. 2011
Good to know that these tips are helpful to you …
Torque
Jul 19. 2011
Though the number of tips shared is less, this are very much important. If not followed this, your computer speed will be killed.
TechCrates
Jul 19. 2011
Yep truly …. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
hifu specialist
Oct 16. 2011
Clearing cookies is indeed one way to speed up desktops. Also, it would be good to practice cookies deletion especially if you’re using the internet in public services such as library and computer cafe. This is one way to prevent hackers access your account.
TechCrates
Aug 29. 2013
Thanks guys for the great tips here. In our modern tech times computer operating systems tend to become really messy 😀
Ashish
Apr 04. 2014
Well i use tune up utilities for cleaning purposes but thanks for sharing these basic things i hope it will help me 🙂
Rahul
May 12. 2014
Great tips, I agree registry cleaner programs really helps to increase computer speed, ccleaner is a good program to do so.
Thanks for sharing.