How do I make my computer pick up speed?

Question

I dont mean internet access, but the person who helped me connect my internet had me move some kind of 'tool bar' for more speed or less speed but now I dont know where that was.
I know it was on MY COMPUTER or SETTINGS or something like that but I dont remember where or what 'IT' is called. please help.

Answer 1

You more than likely need to do a disk defrag
start-programs-accessories-system tools - disk defrag

Answer 2

Im not sure about the toolbar question, but to speed up your pc.

2 things.
Adjust your virtual memory.
Click on start, click on my computer. Click properties, now click the "advanced" tab, next to performance is settings, click this button.
Click advanced, next to virtual memory click "change". If you have enough room on your hard drive, check the "custom" setting, and set the minimum to 2000 and the max to 2500, now click "set",click ok to close the window, then apply on the next window and click ok, thats a total of 2 1/2 gigs of virtual memory......

Step 2, stop any unnecessary programs from running at startup, like messenger, or whatever you dont want to start.
Click the start button, click on run, and type msconfig. Click on the "startup" button, and uncheck anything you dont want to run. Just dont uncheck anything that says C:\windows, your looking for programs you installed, C:\programs.......

Alternatively try this online benchmarking program, its free to sign up, and if you dont want to, you can still run the program..its free! It will tell you the overall performance of your pc......and what you can benefit from, and what might be wrong...

http://pcpitstop.com/

Hope this helps you out.....you may want to invest in more ram also....

Answer 3

defrag the hard drive. but be forwarned, modern day hard drives have so much space it could take all day to defrag it. you can't use your computer for anything else when this program is running.

to find it click on the start button > all programs > system folder > defragmentor

also startup your computer in the safe mode. then run your virus scanner and spyware scanner. doing this gets rid of viruses etc that end up in your systems startup files. scanning in the normal mode won't get them out of there.

Answer 4

hav no tensin, i'm here to help

there are many ways, best way is to goto avg.com

install there FREE avganti spyware and antivirus, its very fast, i use it all the time, i use P4 3.0Ghz... it doesn't even feel its running.

When ur using the antispyware, it will tell you which softwares are running in background, like the tool-bar you are saying, like some programs that start up in the background and you don't know and make your system slow.

check it out, it will help you definately, it helped me :)

Answer 5

dont do much mind reading, but if you look in add/remove control panel, mich be programs you can remove, look in task manager, see whats running that you can stop, use system tools to tune it a bit.

Answer 6

try deleting unneeded programs