how do you speed up your computer?

Question

Im on windows and from switching on to bringing up the Yahoo home page it takes 15-20 minutes. Would cleaning my disk drive help and how would I do this?

Answer 1

Do you hear a lot of disk noises while this is happening? If so, you may be very low on memory and disk space.

Right-click on My Computer and select properties. This will tell you how much RAM (memory) you have. If you don't have at least 512 for WinXP/2000, you're probably low on memory.

Open up My Computer and right-click on your C: drive. You should have many MB available (like over 50). If you don't, then your computer is probably suffering from low memory and excessing "paging" (swapping real memory to disk and back.)

You may be able to add more memory with an upgrade. But first try to take care of the disk. If you are indeed low on disk space, look for things you no longer need and delete them. Clear your temporary internet files and delete off-line content. Clean out your temp folder. Archive (write to CD or other device) files you don't need to open all the time.

Once that's done, reboot the computer and defragment the drive. (Right-click on the drive, select properties, then Tools, then defragment.)

Answer 2

First of all you need to find the reason of slowdown of your pc and then only you can speed up your pc. Your pc might be slow for a number of reasons including a virus or malware or registry errors or may be an antivirus program. Using wrong troubleshooting methods might land you up in more troubles. Here is an article on how to speed up your pc. This will surely help.
http://www.nowuget.com/speed-up-pc/

Answer 3

Download a program called game booster its free and it stops programs running in the background while ur playing cod. I know it helps me. It wont get in the way of antivirus and firewall.

Answer 4

4 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer's Performance
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx

Answer 5

press windows button + r and type tree then press enter. it will increase your computer's speed upto 15%.

Answer 6

You need faster internet connection.

Answer 7

Try this:
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/05/10-intermediate-ways-to-speed-up-windows/

It works just great for me.

Answer 8

Using registry cleaner can fix your pc and then make your pc fast,Why?the reason is that there are some regsitry errors in your PC to cause "Computer slow".
Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the pc registry.You need to scan and clean your PC with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your PC and Internet performance dramatically.It even can speed up your PC by 300% or more!
There are some comparisons and reviews of TOP 5 registry cleaners.
http://www.registry-Cleaners.info

You can download and scan your PC for free.

Answer 9

one can speed up his computer by
1. increasing RAM
2. by keeping less loads of software in his computer
3. keep defragmenting on regular intervals

also to speed up your internet check your modems speed,and contact your service provider.

Answer 10

The most probable answer is to check for taskbar icons. You might be having too many programs starting when you start your computer. So disable automatic startup of as many programs as u can. For example yahoo messenger, MSN all start automatically when windows start. So if you dont need them you can disable automatic start.

Check for Start>All Programs>Startup . Make sure there are not many programs there.

Do a Disk Cleanup.

Last install windows again. Windows gets slow if its more than few months.

Answer 11

get a utility like ccleaner to get rid of junk and bad registry files. spyware can slow it down alot too. get ad-aware and spybot and run those. after all of that defrag your hard drive.