How can I get computer to work faster?

Answer 1

Make sure your not infected with any virus's or spyware.
Make sure you have enough memory.
Make sure to run disk cleanup once a week and disk defrag one a month.
Uninstall any programs you no longer use.

Answer 2

Usually computers slow down due to the extra programs we let start when the computer starts. Don't get me wrong, you can have thousands of programs installed, but they shouldn't start "in the background". I've regained almost 50% processing power on some pc's by cleaning up this kind of stuff.

Stop all the extra programs down in the lower right corner (near the clock). Try to have the program not start with Windows. Also run REGEDIT and find the "RUN" area under local machine to delete all programs othere than absolutely necessary. Using MSCONFIG is a good way to test these.

You can stop many "services". Stop the questionable ones ones at a time to see if it's ok. Each one takes resources.

Extra memory? Scan with http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/ to see if you can use more.

Hard Drive? Many people are shoocked when a new hard drive is installed. The newer high speed drives can make a vast difference. Try to get a 7200 or 10,000rpm 16mb cache drive. $80 can get you a large fast drive.

Sometimes it's programs like Norton that cause the problem. If you look in TASK Manager, you an sort by CPU utilization to see who's using the processor. You might consider replacing your virusscanner or spyware scanner. Some take a lot less resources.

You might have a "Root Virus". They are hard to find but slow things down a lot. Google a root scanner to see if that's the cause.

A lot of cleanup and fixes can be done with CCLEANER. Cleans up stuff you don't even want to know about!!

Also run http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ to do a seconf virus scan (just in case you's is missing one).

HERE'S A COMMON PROBLEM: Windows indexes everything. Microsoft has recommended for years to turn this off. Right click on your C: drive, and turn off Indexing (skip any messages). This can have a HUGE benefit.

Answer 3

1. Unistall unused or old programs

2. Do a ctrl + alt + delete : look and list all program (Processes) that run in the background. Use google to find out which process is use for. Then decide which one to keep. Use TuneUp Utilities ( http://www.tune-up.com/ ) to select or unselect processes.

3. Click Start, right click on my computer select properties. On the Advanced tab, look for performance, left click settings. Choose Adjust for best performance. (This is will take out all the visual effects) it will be more faster but windows will look less beautiful. You can try just to select a few and see if it help.

4. Defrag your computer with Disk Defragmenter (under accessories and system tools.

5. Clean up and defrag your registry : there many program that can help you to clean it. Make backup of the registry first!

TuneUp utilities ( http://www.tune-up.com/ )

6. Do a spyware scan (use spybot and ad-ware) google it.

7. Empty .tmp files (use tuneup utilities to clean up junk on your hardrive.

8. *** GO TO PITSTOP *** ( http://pcpitstop.com/ ) wonderful website to optimize, test, tuneup your windows. A MUST! Allot of advice too and programs.

Answer 4

There are several primary areas that could be causing your computer to run slow. The most likely reason is that your registry has become corrupt,you have too many programs running behind the scenes and your system is essentially running in circles with its internal processing.
To determine if your system is in fact running slow because of problems in your registry and temp files and then speed up your computer, you will need to run a self diagnostic program called regsitry cleaner.This program is very very useful,it can fix regsitry errors,clean registry remnant,corrupt files and temp files in a few minutes.Then give you a bran-new and high-speed computer.There are collection and comparison of top rated registry cleaner:
http://www.speed-up-computer.info/index.php?t=speedup ,From there you can download and scan totall FREE.

Check out here:http://www.speed-up-computer.info/index.php?t=speedup

The second most common problem is that you have spyware/adware in your computer.Spyware/adware not only pop up ads,collect personal info,but also can hamper your computer's performance.It use system resources and slow your computer down. Detecting and removing the programs will improve system performance.

check out http://www.speed-up-computer.info/index.php?t=speedup to Learn more about spyware and how to help protect your computer and improve computer performance.

Hope that help you.

Answer 5

This question is very vague, so here are generic answers:

1) Buy more RAM
2) Clear your cache
3) Clear all cookies
4) Delete or back-up any movies or videos
5) Defrag your hard drive.

There are others, but these are the main ones. If you can be more specific, so will I.

Answer 6

I have an entire website devoted to helping you make your computer faster:

http://www.fix-my-slow-computer.com

You can learn step by step how to make your computer faster, from removing spyware and viruses to checking and upgrading your RAM. Hope it helps.

Answer 7

if u hav a lot of software installed on it delete some that should make it work a little bit faster

Answer 8

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/comp98.htm
You might find tips here.I personally recommend adding more memory. Only if your computer is capable of taking more of course. Take care and may God bless you.

Answer 9

Nice question!

Go to control panel>
Preformance and maintenence>

Then, that depends on what are you looking to speed up.
You can try the "sistem" option and see.

Glad to help! :) <('-')>