One of the most annoying things I have experienced is when I clicked on a website link stored in My Favorites and the page seemed to take forever to load up. Then, when I went to my word processor it too, took an eternity to load! When I'm operating a computer acting in this way, I will type words and they will show up on the screen about ten minutes later! Have you ever had this experience?
Sometimes a computer will slow down so much the Web pages and word processor files never open up. There can be several reasons why a computer slows down. In this article, we're going to discuss 5 things that tend to make a computer lose speed. So, you can avoid or correct these things.
1. Don't Let Your System Tray Become Too Full
In the lower right hand corner on your computer screen is an area known as the system tray. In this area of the screen, there are usually several icons. Some of them may be hidden out of view, in which case you would have to click on a little arrow that points to the right to expose all of the icons in the system tray.
These icons represent programs that are running now or will run in a moment's notice when some move you make on the computer signals them into action. This means you may have several programs running without your knowledge. These programs are constantly running in the background and are stealing your computer's resources. Certainly, this could slow your computer down. Many times, these background operations can slow your computer down to a stop!
Right click on each of these icons. This should open a screen that will let you turn their corresponding programs off. Any program installed on your computer could be started from the start-all programs menu. So, you're not the deleting the program from your computer when you get it out of the systems tray, you're simply controlling the program instead of having the program control you and your system's resources.
2. Need More Ram?
t is possible a PC could slow down because it is in need of more RAM. However, for this to happen, you would have to have installed some program that needs more resources to run than the other programs on your computer. So, if all your other programs are running as quickly as they used to, but one program, recently installed is slow, you probably need more RAM.
3. Are Things Heating Up?
I have seen computers slow down because they were running too hot. This of course, could mean there's some sort of a hardware malfunction inside of the PC. However, don't overlook the fact a computer will heat up too much if a slot cover, or the computer cover itself is removed.
Also, all fans in the computer should be kept free of dust. Dust can slow down the fan speed to the point the fan will no longer effectively cool the computer parts. Dust covering I C's can keep heat trapped in them as well. So, periodically unplug your computer, take its cover off and then blow out the dust with a can of compressed air.
4. Stop Automatically Running Programs
There are programs on your computer, usually spyware programs, that start running automatically periodically throughout the day. Make sure you start these programs, get into their control panel and make sure they run at times when they won't be getting in your way.
5. Keep Registry Cleaned With A Good Registry Cleaner
Probably the most profound and overlooked thing you need to do periodically is clean your registry with a good commercial registry cleaner. Make sure the registry cleaner is kept up to date and that it is a highly reputable piece of software. Also, in order to get the top speed out of your computer make sure the registry cleaner comes with a registry optimizer.
When your computer's registry becomes corrupt or unclean, it will need to have this registry cleaner run. A registry cleaner removers entries in the registry which are no longer needed. These no longer needed entries tend to send the operating system looking through massive directories of files for one that no longer exists. So, you can see how a computer with a clean registry will operate at a far faster speed than one that has a registry with many unneeded entries.
If your computer's registry becomes corrupt, it is not because you've done anything wrong. Normal use will corrupt a registry. This corruption wasn't too much of a problem in older operating systems. However, with Vista and XP, it doesn't take long for corruption accumulate and slow down a computer very noticeably.
The author, Ed Lathrop is a comp TIA A+/Network+ certified computer technician familiar with the operation, repair and upkeep of today's PC's. His site, Registry Repair Review, rates the latest registry programs and tells which registry cleaners work and which ones might actually be dangerous to your computer. Also, Repair Slow Computer gives you step by step instructions on how to get your computer speed back.
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