Make My Computer Faster

How To Make Your Computer Faster

The longer you use your PC, the slower it gets.

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that installing software in Windows can slow your system down. Many programs set themselves up to run when your PC boots, adding time to your boot cycle and taking up vital memory space.

In addition, deleted programs may not remove themselves cleanly from your registry, leaving behind incomplete entries, redundant instructions, and other garbage that slows down processing speeds. Eventually, if left unchecked, the buildup of installed and badly uninstalled programs can grind even the most high-end PCs to a virtual halt.

Check Your System Tray

When I decide to take steps to make my computer faster, the first thing I do is take a long, hard look at my system tray. By default, it’s a collection of icons in the bottom right hand side of the screen.

The system tray contains icons for every program currently running on a system, and every one of those programs is taking up some small amount of system resources.

The first thing I do to restore my system’s speed is look through these icons, identifying any program that shouldn’t be resident in memory and terminating it. More than once, I’ve discovered programs I thought were long deleted, still present in my startup cycle and still slowing my computer down.

Check your Task Manager

While paring down the contents of my system tray will certainly make my computer faster, there are other, Continue reading Make My Computer Faster