my computer is running so slow. Can anyone tell me what i can do to make it go faster?

Answer 1

Using a registry cleaner can fix your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".
Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!It even can speed up your computer by 300% or more!
There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.
http://computer-speed.info
You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer 2

1. First try using the tools in Start>Programs>System Tools: Clean Up and Defragment.
2. If you're computer is starting slow, try changing the settings on the programs that start with Windows. Actually, you might want to change the settings on unnecessary programs that are running all the time.
3. If your computer is still slow, uninstall unnecessary programs.
4. You might need more RAM as well, but try some of these things first.

Answer 3

Firs of all: if your computer was running fine and then suddenly became slow, it's very probable you have a virus. If you're infected and don't have an antivirus installed, you can try an online antivirus. Just browse to http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html to scan your machine directly from the Web.

However, if your computer has always been slow, you could try adding more RAM (random-access memory). Another avenue is to try and optimize it. I found a few articles about that from Microsoft (I'm assuming you use Windows):
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/optimize.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/tiptalk/archive/2005/09/06/461537.aspx

Good luck!

Answer 4

You may be having a spyware\virus issue:

Try this, Go to Yahoo and search for "download e-scan for windows" (without the quotes). Download the "e-scan for windows" from Microworld Technologies (www.mwti.com) 15 day trial, install it and update it, and scan your computer.

It should clean almost all the junk.

Either buy the full version or remove it from your computer after the 15 days. I suggest you buy it and use it weekly.

If this does not speed up your computer, there are other issues such as hardware problems, software degradation, or a rootkit.

Techxan

Answer 5

There are several things.
Run your Virus Software regularly,
Use your Operating Systems Utilities.
Disk Clean-up
Run one or more of the free Spyware or Adware removal tools.
Spybot Search and Destroy.
Lavasofts- Adaware.
On your tools Internet Options erase all online cookiesand all other off-line content.
This will help a bunch, and do it once a week need to or not.
Don

Answer 6

You can try and run a spyware/virus checker to see if there is any malicious programs hogging resources or just close programs running in the background. Programs like MSN Messenger [when not logged on] may still run and use resources even thou you are not "using" it.

Another option would be to buy more RAM fro your computer.

Answer 7

Could be a few things.
Maybe your comp needs more RAM, or you have a bad stick of RAM.
Defrag the HD.
Delete all your temp files.
You may have lots of spyware. Run a program such as spybot or adaware, they are free.
You may have some viruses. Be sure your comp has up to date AV software and run it.

Answer 8

Virus/anti spy scan, defragmenting the hard drive, disk cleanup utility. The latter two can be accessed via start menu/all programs/accessories/system tools if you are running windows. Linux or Mac os I can't help, sorry.

Answer 9

1. Remove (uninstall) any old programs or games you no longer use/play.

2. do a Disk Cleanup in the 'system tools"

3. Defragment your hard drive. (also in system tools.

Answer 10

delete things you dont need, defrag the pc, virus scan, spyware check...add more RAM or a bigger hard drive.