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6 Quick Ideas To Fix
A Slow Computer
1. Go Easy On The Display Settings
It is very easy to get carried away with a wide range of
visual options. While you might things that this makes your pc look
good – it will also impact on the performance of your computer. If you
get rid of some of those display options you will enjoy a computer that
is faster and more reliable.
So how do you fix a slow computer by changing
the visual display settings?
Find the control panel on your computer and click the system option. Go
to the advanced tab. In the performance tab click on the settings. OK
now you will see a wide range of options that can be selected. I would
remove all and only leave the following as selected items. Show shadows
under menus, Show shadows under mouse pointer, Show translucent
selection rectangle, Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop,
Use visual styles on windows and buttons
Try out these different options and work out what is best for you. The
main thing is to make sure you do not have too many options as it will
make your computer slower.
2. Remove File Indexing
You may not have heard of file indexing before – but enabling this
option on your computer will slow your computers performance markedly.
It uses a large volume of the RAM (Memory) on your computer. So – we
suggest you disable this service and you will notice the difference
immediately.
If you go to ‘my computer’ and right click the C: drive. Then select
properties and unselect the “allow indexing service to index this disk
for fast file searching”. Then apply this change to C: subfolders and
files and click OK
3. Get Rid of Your Desktop Picture
I know you quite like the picture of aunt Dorothy that you have on your
computer desktop background! However, if you get rid of this image and
restore default settings for your background you will improve your
computer speed and performance. You are using a lot of memory to have
this on your computer background.
4. Clean Your Computer Registry
Your computer registry is the powerhouse of your
computer.
If your windows registry is not free from damage and well
organized, your system will become unbelievably slow and is likely to
start freezing, and crashing. You should regularly clean your windows
registry with and effective registry cleaning product to ensure that you
computer is running fast and your registry is performing optimally.
Visit
www.fixaslowcomputer.com
for details on top rated registry products and to perform a free scan of
your computer registry to see if it is running at peak performance.
5. Clear your computers ‘prefetch’ folder
What is ‘pre-fetching’? Well – this actually refers to
when your computer will pre-load frequently loaded applications and data
to ensure that your programmes start running faster than without
prefetching. However, after you have used your computer for a period of
time it will keep loading some stuff that is no longer necessary. You
should look to regularly empty this prefetch folder to help your slow
computer and ongoing pc performance. GO to the windows folder under
your lodal hard disk
X:\windows\prefetch (X is the drive where you have
Windows installed) or %systemroot%\prefetch
6. How many fonts do you really need?
Another tip on how to fix a slow computer is to ensure
that you only have the fonts that you are actually going to use loaded.
Additional fonts will use memory and computer power – especially
TrueType fonts. Get rid of some of these |
