Remedy for that Slow PC

There is nothing sweeter than a smooth running PC.  No crashes, fast access to files, and responsive internet browsing.  Inevitably, overtime your computer seems to lose its pep.  Everything slows down a bit or comes to grinding halt.  To keep your PC running smoothly it is best to proactively maintain your hard drive and registry.

When it comes your hard drive, make sure you run a periodic defrag.  Right click on the hard drive in My Computer and chose properties-tools-defrag.  Disk defrag will analyze your drive and let you know whether or not a defrag is necessary.  Running chkdsk periodically will also increase longevity and responsiveness.  Run windows update periodically as well and load the critical updates.

When it comes down to responsiveness, there is nothing more important than maintaining a healthy registry.  Your registry is the nuts and bolts of your operating system and the main culprit when it comes to a slow PC.  Every time you install an application that application gets embedded in your registry.  When you uninstall an application usually remnants of that app. remain in your registry and impact performance.  CCleaner is a great application for cleaning out those old remnants.  Just make sure you utilize the backup tab in cleaner before deleting registry components.  Once you’ve gotten rid of old registry values your PC will definitely run smoother.

Last, but not least, make sure you are consistent with virus and spyware scans and keep definition files up to date.  Proactively addressing your system before things get sluggish will keep you PC running like new and keep you out of the repair shop.  Happy Computing!

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