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Slow computer fixes

Having a slow computer either in your home or at your office can be quite frustrating. Having to spend minutes on tasks that otherwise just takes seconds can make anyone lose their temper. Let me suggest some slow computer fixes. The good thing is that you don’t need to be an expert to perform these fixes. They are all easy understandable – in the end saving you much valuable time.

First step would to be to delete any and all of you files that you don’t really need. You might not believe me but having many files spread across the system will cause your computer run slow. By that I mean that your hard drive will be forced to seek across its surface, seeking data. If you already didn’t know a hard drive is mechanical thus it isn’t as fast as one would believe.

Secondly, browse through your system and identify any software that you don’t use. There is no use for these programs to sit on your computer. They will just fill up valuable hard drive space and hog performance.

Next in line of our fixes is to run some kind of disk-cleanup software. In essence this program will delete all the obsolete files that the unused software that you just de installed. Trust me; there are a lot of different files they leave behind. Examples are temporary data files and/or configuration files. Although not reviewed here on my page, I have tried and used Advanced Defrag with great success.

Next I would suggest that you either find your own host of software that protect, maintain and manage your system or read my post below, My Computer Slows down – the answer where I guide you to a few of them.

Now, there you have it. The suggestions above are just some of the the slow computer fixes that are out there. I will try to add some tip every day so that you guys always can have a fresh computer acting as it was supposed to.

Why my computer slows down – the answer

You know what, your are not the only one who wonder why your computer slows down. I can assure you that there probably are a million reasons to why that happens, but I believe some are more common then others.

As my blog name suggest the registry is one reason, but I believe that there are more to it. Therefor I have written this post to sum up a few of the main reasons that you by yourself can handle with some free ready available tools.

Reason: Virus – Not having proper Anti-Virus solution installed and up to date is way more common than you believe. But be vary, even with today’s modern technology any software will not find almost 50% of all virus out there. Still, a solution is needed and will spare you a lot of grief.

Cure: Any kind of Anti-Virus. I suggest MicroAntiVirus. Key feature to look for are real time scanning and a virus database that update on a daily basis.

Reason: Spyware – With more and more of our personal life on the internet there are a host of different software that criminal minded people will try to install on your computer. These kind of software will try to steal your personal information – some times they succeed and sometimes they don’t. But, they will also cause any computer to slow down becouse of their often bad programming.

Cure: There are a million of applications around that can fend of these kind of problems. I recommend Spyware Cease for a good all around solution.

Reason: Adware – Adware will install on your system and once again steal your personal information. This time by tracking what you do and show relating ads on you computer, violation your personal space. These kind of programs are often poorly written to, causing your system to run slow.

Cure: There is only one option here, Ad Alert - as mentioned on CNN.

Reason: Registry Malfunction – Well, just surf around here on my blog and you will get why these kind of problems will cause your computer to slow down. They are one of the main reasons for you wondering why my computer slows down.

Cure: Check out my Registry Cleaner Overview for a complete selection with reviews.

My opinion is that all of these application might not get you out of all trouble, but they will take you far. Combine these and you will never ask yourself; my computer slows down, never ever.

The Slow Computer Virus Myth

First of, if you don’t have a Anti Virus installed I do recommend you to install one. Because, even if the problem I’m about to describe is not always related to a virus it do from time to time really very well be.

Let’s get down to the problem. What it comes down to is that it’s not always vile viruses spreading through your computer that causing your computer to run slow, fooling us into the slow computer virus myth. What it might as well be is Windows itself and it’s underdeveloped procedures to handle broken, faulty and obsolete entries in the registry.

What happens is that through all your daily, weekly and yearly use there is a constant buildup of entries that in the end will bring your system to it’s knees.

Even a small buildup of these kind of entries will force your computer to run slow. Instead of focusing on it’s main tasks, that is support you, it will iterate through these entries again again and again, trying to locate the faulty or non existing addresses in the system that the entries point towards.

Since these kind of activity’s by default has main priority in the Windows core system other applications like Firefox, Winamp, Itunes or any other non system application will suffer, having a smaller amount of system resources to share among themselves. And since we we all will use them on a daily basis we will in just a short while notices the great decline in performance, hampering our daily tasks and chores.

So, while it very well be a virus, there is also the chance that it might be the above mentioned problem. What to do then?

I suggest that you first install a Anti Virus solution if you dont have one. Next you should choose a registry cleaner that can search through and identify all the bad entries. If you have a hard time finding the right solution you should check out my allready tested and reviewed solutions here on the right or my registry cleaner overview. The overview will be a easy shortcut, outlining their respective features and of course their final grade.