How to Speed Up Your Computer without Upgrading Your Hardware?

April 5, 2009 by Tom · Leave a Comment
Filed under: How-to

With the new technologies for every day, the meanest machine needs to get more and more advanced. Of course I’m talking about your computer. With each minute passing away, the hardware of your computer gets upgraded. Every version of software you buy now, becomes older the next minute. New software requires more resources and might not be compatible with your old hardware. Does that mean you need to buy those new software and hardware every time you want to keep your computer updated and running?

There are many ways to keep your computer running faster with your new software and old hardware. You do not need to upgrade your hardware every now and then. You can do many things that can speed up computer performance and keep it like a new one. All these things can be done by you. It doesn’t matter whether you are a novice or an expert. You being the computer user can keep your PC in its best shape. The question is how to speed up computer?

There may be a lot of things affecting your computers health and speed. You need to know the reasons behind your computer slowing down. The reasons might be like:

Fragmented Hard Drive space and system memory
Unused files hoarding up your drive space
Viruses, spywares, malwares and adware
Temporary system files
Registry cleaning
Unnecessary system services
Not responding processes or programs

You can speed up computer system manually or with the help of a speed up computer software. There are many ‘speed up computer freeware’ available on the internet. You can try them or buy a good one like Perfect Optimizer. These ‘speed up computer programs’ will also help reduce computer crashes and reduce boot-up times.

You being the computer user can do a much more than these software. You will get to know some speed up computer tips through this article. These tips will help your computer speed up fast and steadily. The basic and fast tips are to empty your recycle bin, uninstall unneeded fonts, delete junk e-mail, clean the internet cache, use disk clean-up, and clean the registry.

Besides these, you can also install a good antivirus and antispyware software like CA or Kaspersky Antivirus. Uninstalling unused programs can be of great importance to speed up your computer. You could also disable unnecessary services by following these steps:

Click on start
Click on control panel
Click on Administrative tools
Click on services
Disable the services that you do not need excluding the system services.

Another important step would be to disable your computer indexing services. This service makes your document searches faster. If you do not deal with many documents, you can disable this service by these steps:

Go to My Computer
Right Click on Drive and then on Properties
Un-tick ‘Allow indexing service on this disk’

You can also disable windows animation slides and themes to free up system resources and make your computer still faster. You can do this by these steps: