Make Your Computer Run Faster

Does your computer seem to run like a 20 year old car? Does it seem like it's lost most of its horsepower and is just going slower and slower every day? There is a good chance that you have been neglecting routine maintenance on your computer. Taking care of this kind of routine maintenance will make your computer a whole lot faster.

Below is a list of several things that you can do even if you do not consider yourself to be a computer expert. In addition to being easy each of these things are either free or cheap. These are also several of the secrets that a repair shop will charge you $100 or more to perform.

Since you have been using your computer for quite some time now there is almost an absolute guarantee that simply running the defragmentation program in your computer will make a tremendous increase in the speed of your computer. The defrag program is found in your accessories group within your control panel. It is software installed there by Microsoft before you even bought your computer therefore it is completely safe to run.

While the defrag program will organize the files on your hard drive in a more efficient and effective manner you should then also run the program that checks for bad sectors on your hard drive. Bad sectors on your hard drive will slow down your computer's access to the hard drive. Running this bad sector utility will help you by repairing bad sectors or instructing the computer to work around them effectively.

You might also consider installing an anti-spyware program on your computer. You can get one for free from Microsoft called Internet Defender or you can step up your protection a notch or two by investing $30 or $40 in a commercial anti-spyware program. Although it is not free the additional level of security is well worth the relatively small investment.

The next thing you want to do is strip the excess fat from your computer. Over the time that you have owned your computer you have probably installed some programs that you no longer use. Tell your computer to uninstall them and this will free up additional room on your hard drive so that it can work more efficiently and effectively. If there are no programs that you bought that you want to remove then look for programs that the manufacturer of your computer installed. Most likely you have never used them and never will. They are only there to make money for large corporations. If it looks like a program that you will never use then again just tell your computer to uninstall the program.

While this next tip is not free it is one of the best speed boosters that you can consider for your computer. Check your instruction book and see how much random access memory your computer came with. Then find out how much your computer can handle in terms of maximum memory. If there is room for more memory capacity in your computer simply go to a local store with your instruction manual that contains your computer name and model and show it to them. They will be able to tell you what kind of memory you need and how much you can get. Then go home and take 10 minutes to install the new memory sticks in your computer. If you can plug a blender into an outlet then you are competent to install a stick of memory in your computer's system.

These have been just a few of the things that you can do to make your computer run faster. These are easy things for you to do. You do not have to be a computer savvy person in order to accomplish them. And once your computer starts running faster you will be looking for additional things to do to make it run even faster still. Naturally there are lots of additional tweaks the average person can do for their computer and we can help you with that information below.

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