Simple Ways To Increase Your Computer Performance Speed

Do you know that you can increase your PC’s performance by just employing a few ‘How to increase computer speed’ tips? Your computer performance speed depends on how you use and maintain it. The following are some of the ways by which you can amicably increase your computer performance speed:

Install Anti-Virus software

Installing reliable anti-virus software on your computer will ensure that no virus or spyware will intrude you computer processors. Besides slowing down your computer, viruses and spyware can collect personal information like passwords and credit card details from your computer. To improve the speed of your computer, scan all the files after installing the anti-virus software and delete any virus detected.

The antivirus might slowdown your computer insignificantly, but the advantages are way better. Some antiviruses like Avast can detect programs which are slowing down your computer so you can remove those too..

Increasing virtual space.

If your computer has insufficient virtual space, it will keep popping up a message that you are running low on virtual space. You can delete any obsolete entry to free some space in your computer registry. You can also install a registry scan software which will help you to scan the registry and remove any unneeded, corrupt or damaged entries

Check and rectify hard disk errors

The way by which you check for disk errors in your computer depends on the kind of operating system you computer is running on. For instance, to check for hardware errors in Windows: simply go to My Computer and right click on drive C. Select properties and click on the tools tab. On the error checking option, click on the ‘check now’ button. During the boot up, the Windows will be reset after a thorough check. If you carry out such a check on regular basis of say 3 months, your computer performance speed will definitely increase to a great extent.

Remove unnecessary programs from startup using msconfig

Many applications are installing processes which are running in the background. Those processes are not necesarry and they are only slowing down your computer. Click on search icon in windows taskbar and type msconfig. This the windows utility from which you can see which services are running and you can go to task manager to see which programs are started on startup. Remove the services which you know you don use(not the windows services) and the startup programs.

Use Disk Cleanup to clean your disk from unused/temporary files

Windows has an utility called Disk Cleanup which will help you when you want to remove no longer used files.

Use a specialized computer optimization software

There are many alternatives on the market which are analyzing your computer and apply the best methods to optimize it. Here is a small list(far away from being complete):

• Iolo System Mechanic
• Norton Utilities
• CCleaner
• Comodo PC Tuneup

By employing the above actions, you can be sure that your computer speed will be sufficient to carry out most of your tasks. If you know other methods to make the computer faster leave them in the comments.