As time passes the speed of windows computers decreases, you will see that the overall processing of your system is becoming slow and a bit lagging too. To help you with your problem we have listed down the best 7 ways by which you can increase your computer’s speed.
1. Upgrade your Hardware – Before we go in to anything with optimizing your software, first have a serious look at your current hardware. Make sure that everything you have is proper and sufficient.
If you are using the age old 512MB or 1GB RAM, just upgrade it. Because the applications which we use today in our day to day experience needs more than that, I would recommend having at least 2GB of RAM for a buttery smooth experience.
Apart from this, have a look at your other parts and upgrade them as required.
2. Clean your Desktop – Do you have all the updated hardware and still noticing lagging and slow response kind of problems? Than be ready to optimize your software a little bit.
Start optimizing your software with the desktop. First of all move all the files from your desktop to your hard drive, because every time you start up your computer all the files on your desktop are loaded into your memory. So clean your desktop and just keep shortcuts and extremely necessary files here.
3. Remove system errors – Windows operating system is huge cluster of hundreds of applications and it is possible that as time passes some system applications might get corrupted or changed. And it will directly decrease the speed of your system. To correct this issue you can use a windows tool called “System File Checking”, it will basically check all the errors in your system and repair them.
4. Remove Viruses, Trojans, etc. – The number one reason why someone’s computer is slow is just because they have virus or Trojan or something like that which is using system’s resources unnecessarily.
Purchase good antivirus software and update it regularly, if you just follow this step than also you will see great results.
5. Remove unused programs – As time passes most of us are stuck with so many unused programs installed in our PC. When you install a program in your PC it creates a link with the operating system, hence when you are not using that program than also it’s using your resources and slowing down the system’s performance. So remove unnecessary and unused programs.
6. Don’t auto start programs – These programs heavily uses the RAM as they have to start automatically just after the system have started. So avoid the auto start programs to make your boot time and system processing faster.
7. Reinstall the operating system – If you have tried all the tips and tricks to speed up your computer but still stuck up with the slow speed and unresponsiveness of your computer than the last resort is reinstalling the operating system. Just make sure that you have backed up all your data before reinstalling the operating system.
