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How to improve Computer perofrmance - Stop Your computer Crawling and Make it Run Faster
5 May 2010, 12:00 am

If your PC has slowed down you need to find out what is causing it and fix it quickly before the problem becomes worse. If you do not fix it, what starts off as minor problem can quickly prevent Windows from running at all and you need to take steps to improve computer performance.

One of the first indication anyone gets that there is a problem with their computer is when they try to do the following.

#1 Open a web browser.

#2 Open a program.

#3 Open a document.

These are all memory intensive and if there is a lack of memory or errors within windows you will notice any of these actions take a very long time to complete. This means you could be sitting there repeatedly clicking on your documents browser or program and then suddenly multiple copies open.

If you are experiencing this problem here is what you need to do. You firstly need to find out if it is a memory problem or Windows related, or both, by doing the following.

1. Press the ctrl-alt-del keys on your keyboard at the same time. Then on the box that appears in the middle of your screen click on task manager. You then want to click on the performance tab. You will then see a where it says physical memory. Ignore everything else you see and just look at free memory.

2. If this figure is less than 250000 you need to free up some memory. This is how you do it.

#1 Remove any programs you are not using or do not use. What happens is many of them are loaded into memory when windows starts and even if they are not, some of the files required to run them are and this eats away at the memory, slowing your PC to a crawl.

#2 The second problem is related to the Windows registry. This is where all the settings for Windows and all your hardware are stored and problems in the registry, even if you cannot see them, are displayed in Windows as error messages, crashing and freezing and other strange behaviour.

Manually editing these entries is not a good idea as you can make things worse. The best thing to do is to run a free registry scan, which will find all these errors quickly and let you fix them automatically.This will improve computer performance in minutes.

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