How can i make my pc work better without buying anything?

Answer 1

Open Internet Exporer
Delete Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History
Clean your hard disk from
Start ->All Programs ->Accessories ->System Tools -> Disk Clean up -> Select your drive

where the Opearting System resides e.g. C: -> Check all options -> Click on the "More

Options" tab -> Click on "Clean up" button under System Restore -> Click OK.
Defragment you hard disk
Start ->All Programs ->Accessories ->System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter and defragment all

the partitions one by one.

Further change the location of your "Virtual Memory" from the partition where your Operating

System resides to another parition. Preferably create a partition of the size four times that

of your RAM and relocate the virtual memeory to this paritition with a size equal to three

times of your RAM.
To change the virtual memory loaction, right click "My Computer" icon on the desktop

->Click Properties-> Select the Advance tab -> Click Settings under Performance Option -> Click Advance

tab ->Click on the Change button under "virtual memory" -> Scroll to the drive where the

virtual memory resides and click on it -> Click on the Option "Custom Size" and type 0 and 0

in both initial and maximum size -> Click on Set button -> Then click on the partition where

you want to place the virtual drive -> Click on the Option "Custom Size" and type a figure

equal to 3 x RAM of your system in both initial and maximum size ->Click on the Set button.

Click OK and reboot your system.

In addition to the above, ensure that you have alteast 20% free space in every parititon.

Answer 2

Start by learning some basics about how your PC runs! Memory is a good place to start. Two basic memory types in your PC. Ram (random access memory) and Rom (read only memory).
When you run your PC and you click an application or program, the processor or brain looks in the hard drive (rom) and loads the data into your ram which is the area all apps are moved to when you run them. This is probably the most important thing for the average user to learn! The more programs or apps you run at once, the less available ram you have to run them! Its easy to see that at some point you will not have enough ram and your PC will slow down due to the fact that the ram is overloaded with things to do! To keep your PC running smoothly, dont run applications you arent using. Video takes up large amounts of ram. You will also find that you have many programs loading during startup that you dont need to run! An example would be winzip, it site there running in the background gobbling ram and it doesnt need to be running considering the fact that when you need it to unzip a file, it will start up anyway! There are many programs that set themselves up to run during bootup. Disable them! You can do this by removing some of them from the startup folder, you can also type msconfig in the run box and going to the startup tab. As others have stated, a defrag once a week or so will keep your hard drive data organized which will help to reduce time when the processor is looking for the data.

Answer 3

try to do these
1. download and install a avg antivirus at free.grisoft.com. update it and then run a full system scan.

2. download and install ad-aware at www.lavasoftusa.com. update it and run a full system scan.

3. download and install spybot search & destroy at www.safer-networking.org. update and run a full system scan.

4. run disk cleanup. click Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tool - Disk Clean Up.

5. Run check disk. go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt . at the prompt type in chkdsk /f /r. then just press Y to dismount the drive. then restart the computer. the computer will then perform a check disk.

6. Defragment your hard drive. click Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Defrargment. Well you'll have to wait for this cause defragment takes a long time depending on the content of you hard drive.

after doing all of these your computer should work faster.

Answer 4

in addition to the point suggested by the other answerers you should also check that all required software is installed correctly. for example any program that requires sql to be installed can slow your system to a crawl if sql gets corrupted in any way.
so the occasional re-installation of some software programmes.
do a net search for registry clean expert. there is a free trial available. that you can run and have it list all errors in your systems registry. you never have to pay for a copy if you want to spend hours manually correcting all errors it finds.
use housecall.trendmicro.com to run a systemwides scan of your computer to check for malware (spyware, trojans and viri) clean any infections found.
providing you do this and frewquently defrag your hard drive after you remove files and or install programes should keep your system in top performance. however if your system is old then the hardware may be inherantly slow so there is very little you can do to fix the performance of your system.

you may like to try the free trial of tweak xp from www.totalidea.com and tweak away to get the best you can from your system.

Answer 5

It depends on the system.
Without buying anything is hard question. Electronics always updates every minute.
I recommend you defrag your Harddrive and it should work a litttle bit faster.

Make sure you have also Antivirus installed and clean system.
Clean your COOKIES, old files and do SCANDISK.

1 - SCANDISK
2 - DEFRAG
3 - Clean Cookies, Old Files (RIGHT CLICK DRIVE C "my computer" and you'll see CLEAN)

GOod Luck

Answer 6

Turn off your pagefile.
Restart to safemode.
Defragment your harddrive(s)
Turn your pagefile back on.
Run Scandisk.

Also, make sure you aren't running any fiddly little side programs you don't need, check your Ctrl-Alt-Del dialog box.

Turn off all flashy things in Control Panel > System > Performance.

Install Ubuntu.

Answer 7

yeah you can very easily. follow this guide here for maxium speed again. also performing these on a monthly basis will prevent you greatly from a system crash

go to trentmicro.com freetools and scan your computer for bad stuff for free.

i would then get adaware from lavasoft (google this) to remove spyware-adware. trendmicro is more viruses, adaware is more for spyware

get a registry cleaner. google amust.

now use windows to make it faster by:

going to start-run- type "msconfig"-startup- then uncheck any software you dont want starting up. this helps ALOT.

NEXT....
clean up extra files on your hard drive the arent needed and accumilate over time

start-all programs- accessories- system tools- disk cleanup

FINALLY
organize the files on your hard drive to make your computer even faster by defragmenting

start-all programs- accessories- system tools- disk defragmenter

Answer 8

Clear your Internet cache, defragment your files, lower the number of startup programs, keep your computer virus free, have good antispyware, antiadware and antivirus, fave a good firewall, delete unnecessary files, uninstall unnecessary programs, do a disk cleanup ..........
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Answer 9

Ckeck out this link where it explains how to make your Windows faster:

http://www.helpero.com/Questions-and-answers/Computers/Windows/How-do-i-optimize-speed-up-windows_715.html

Helpero is a web site that helps every Internet user, from all over the world, solve any computer related problem.

Answer 10

my suggestion is to erase all programs and files you don't need. they take up space which in return slows down your pc. make sure to empty your bin when you delete stuff.