It often seems that as time goes by a computer loses a significant amount of its original speed. Sometimes this lost speed is thought to be a normal part of computer aging but this is usually not the case. It takes a long time for a PC’s parts to become old enough for their aging to affect the way the computer will perform.
There are ways to keep a computer from losing speed and get its speed back if it has become slow. This article will talk about getting and keeping your PC’s speed up to its potential.
A Computer’s Resources
Basically, a computer consists of a motherboard, a CPU and RAM. The inherent ratings of these parts are what will determine how fast the computer will be right out of the box. Of course, if we put a greater demand on our PC by installing more hardware or even software into it, we may have to upgrade it by installing more RAM so we will not lose speed. However, if we haven’t made any extravagant changes to the PC and it still slows down, we have to look elsewhere for our problem.
What Has Slowed Our Computer Down?
When a computer is suffering from poor performance and slow speed, you can bet there is something that has entered into our computer and is working inside without our approval and is taking our computer’s speed away.
Some types of malware is what very often will steal a significant amount of our computer’s resources and make it next to impossible to use. Malware means malicious software and can be anything we normally associate with viruses or spyware.
It is very important we keep all of our computers free of viruses and spyware because if we don’t, we risk our computer’s health and our financial health, should one of the spyware invaders steal our identities. Knowing whether it is spyware or viruses that have infected our computers is not important. We can install a software program on our computer that cleans all spyware and viruses and we will be all set even if we don’t know exactly what was sapping our computer’s strength.
And The Registry!
Equally as important as keeping our computers free of viruses and spyware are keeping our computers free of registry corruption. A computer doesn’t need to be abused in any way to develop registry corruption. Normal use will leave false entries in our registries and these false entries will give our operating systems stumbling blocks it must find a way to work around. This, of course, will cause our computers to slow down and become unstable. These stumbling blocks are what are known as registry corruption and it has to be cleaned out periodically or our computers will not operate at a level that is anywhere close to their potential.
There are other things a PC owner can check when he or she is dealing with a slow computer. Here’s one: look in the system tray. This area of the computer screen is located in the lower right hand corner. If you find any icons there, right click them and look for the option to close the programs these icons represent. If doing so gets some of your computer’s speed back, you’ll know one of these corresponding programs was stealing resources from the PC.
Still, above and beyond anything else that could be slowing down your computer is the major problems of spyware, viruses or any other kind of malware and registry corruption. These are the things most often responsible for a PC losing its zip and possible freezing up. Clean out the malware and keep the registry free of corruption and chances are your computer will perform excellently for a long time to come!
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