Saturday, October 21, 2006

PC's performance and reliability

Is your PC running slower than your old Vic-20 or TRS 80? Fortunately, there are some simple steps that you can take to substantially speed up your slow computer. By taking these basic steps you can also enhance your PC's performance and reliability.

First, ensure you have anti-spyware software installed to detect and remove adware and spyware. In fact, Maximum PC suggests you have Spybot Search & Destroy in addition to two other anti-spyware programs running on your PC. Windows Vista includes a free anti-spyware program as well as pop-up blocker called Windows Defender. If you're not running Windows Vista you can download Windows Defender on the Internet. Just search for "Windows Defender" in your favourite search engine to find it.

Besides wreaking havoc in your PC in other ways computer viruses can really slow down your computer. It is essential that you have anti-virus software installed on your computer if you are connected to the Internet. Just a minute, hold your credit card! You'll be glad to know that there is free anti-virus software available to download on the Internet. I help protect my PC from viruses by having the free version of AVG Anti-virus installed on my computer.

A hard drive full of clutter can also really decrease the speed of your computer. Been surfing the Internet? Your computers hard drive is probably filled up with browser cache, temporary, duplicate, and hidden files, etc. Not only does this decrease your computer's speed and performance. It also is a real threat to your privacy. Fortunately, you can download a 15-day fully functional free trial of Cyberscrub Privacy Suite to securely and permanently erase files on your computers hard drive. At the same time it will increase your PC's speed and performance.

A registry that needs cleaning might very well cause computer crashes, error messages, and slow down your computer. I strongly suggest that you download and run Registry Mechanic to increase both your computers speed and performance. This software will clean your registry of files leftover from installing duplicate files on your PC, errors, and duplicate files. You can download a free limited 15 day trial of Registry Mechanic. A fully functional version of this software can be purchased for US $29.95. The first time I used Registry Mechanic it found over registry errors, etc. You guessed it! This software increased my PC's speed.

Finally, your hard drive very well might need defragmenting. A fragmented hard drive can certainly slow down your computer. Use the defrag utility on Windows 98, ME, XP, and Vista to defragment your PC's hard drive. Beware that this can be a time consuming venture, sometimes taking several hours.

By following the simple steps that
we have discussed you can speed up your computer. By doing this you can also increase your PC's reliability and performance.

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