Three Steps to Turning Around Your Slow Computer Speed and Performance Level
No computer problem is more annoying than having a crash right in the middle of an operation. Second to that would be to have a sluggish or even downright slow computer. If these problems sound at all too familiar to you, you’ve come to the right place. Lets see if we can determine what the problem with your problem computer is.
Our first area of concern is parasites. Spyware, and to lesser extent adware, can not only cause your computer to misbehave, but they can follow you as you surf the Internet and copy your banking information. Viruses, which are an entirely different thing than spyware can harm your operating system so badly, you will need to do a reformat to use your computer again.
Make Sure You are Virus Free
First, Clean Out the Viruses First of all, lets see if there are any viruses present on your hard drive. Run your virus scanner. If it happens you don’t have one or you think yours might be sleeping on the job, search one of the search engines for a free virus scan. You will find plenty of offers. Run one of these and see what, if anything turns up. If anything does turn up, and you took the free scan deal, you will have to pay to make the virus scanner yours so you can remove the virus or viruses.
At this point you know you are virus free because you either removed all the viruses the scanner found or you didn’t have any in the first place. Now ,lets go after spyware. If you have a spyware scanner, run it now. If not, do a search for free antispyware scan or something similar. You will find there are no shortages of options available.
Getting Rid of Spyware is Very Important
It is nice to be able to get a free spyware scan, but don’t confuse this with a free spyware cleaner. Free spyware cleaners can cause more problems than they correct. A good free scanner requires a payment to activate its cleaning function. So, if your free scan uncovers spyware or adware, you need to essentially buy the spyware cleaner. This, in my opinion is dirt cheap compared to the financial horrors spyware could cause a person.
Were almost there! Next, do a registry scan on your computer. If you don’t have a registry cleaner do a Google search for “Windows Registry Cleaner.” You will find free scan offers on the page that comes up. Once again, if you need to buy a registry cleaner don’t hesitate. Just don’t fool around with anything that refers to itself as a “Free Registry Cleaner,” they will do more harm than good!
A Corrupt Registry Means a Poor Running Computer
Registry corruption can get in the way of an operating system so much it can make the OS incapable of loading into the hard drive at startup. This means it is just about impossible to keep a computer running at full tilt without having a registry cleaner installed on a computer these days. While this may not have been the case a few years ago, it is today because Windows XP and Vista are so much more easily corrupted.
Doing the things outlined in this article have helped many computer owners get their computer going full speed and error free again. If your computer is one of the rare ones that was not helped by this procedure, at least take heart in knowing everything you did bodes well for your computers health in the long run.
A computer that still isn’t up to par at this point needs attention at a repair shop. Or maybe there is one more thing you could do. Open up your task manager and look for a program that is using your entire computers strength. If you find such a program, close it. If it is ever necessary to use it you can open it when you need to.