Improve Your Computer’s Speed Even When It Is Very Slow
It often seems that as time goes by a computer loses a significant amount of its original speed. Sometimes this lost speed is thought to be a normal part of computer aging but this is usually not the case. It takes a long time for a PC’s parts to become old enough for their aging to affect the way the computer will perform.
There are ways to keep a computer from losing speed and get its speed back if it has become slow. This article will talk about getting and keeping your PC’s speed up to its potential.
The Resources
Basically, a computer consists of a motherboard, a CPU and RAM. The inherent ratings of these parts are what will determine how fast the computer will be right out of the box. Of course, if we put a greater demand on our PC by installing more hardware or even software into it, we may have to upgrade it by installing more RAM so we will not lose speed. However, if we haven’t made any extravagant changes to the PC and it still slows down, we have to look elsewhere for our problem.
Resource Thieves
When a computer becomes slow, either over a short period of time or a long one, there are usually very familiar unauthorized villains that are stealing the computer’s resources and causing its performance to suffer.
Spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers and other types of viruses which we refer to as malware, or malicious software most often is involved in the operation that hijacks a computer’s power and performance.
Actually, it is not really all that important to know exactly what kinds of malware, be they viruses or spyware, have infected your computer. However, using a good spyware cleaner regularly is important. There are cleaner software programs that take care of cleaning out both spyware and viruses from your computer. So, you don’t need to deal with separate virus and spyware cleaners. However, you do need to clean out all parasites or you may end up having your computer shut down on you and you may have your identity stolen all at the same time!
And The Registry!
Corruption will build up in a computer’s registry from regular every day use. The only way to avoid this is to not use the computer. This, of course, is not a viable option. So, what this means is not only do we need to keep viruses and spyware out of our computers, but we must also keep the registry free of corruption. Just like viruses and spyware will slow down our computers, so will registry corruption. In fact, some of the slowest and most unstable computers I’ve ever seen have become so because of registry corruption.
There are other things a PC owner can check when he or she is dealing with a slow computer. Here’s one: look in the system tray. This area of the computer screen is located in the lower right hand corner. If you find any icons there, right click them and look for the option to close the programs these icons represent. If doing so gets some of your computer’s speed back, you’ll know one of these corresponding programs was stealing resources from the PC.
Still, above and beyond anything else that could be slowing down your computer is the major problems of spyware, viruses or any other kind of malware and registry corruption. These are the things most often responsible for a PC losing its zip and possible freezing up. Clean out the malware and keep the registry free of corruption and chances are your computer will perform excellently for a long time to come!