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How can I make my computer run faster?

I have cable internet and tonight my computer started running REALLY slow! What are some things that I can do to make my computer run faster?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Use TuneUp Utilities, CCleaner, or System Mechanic.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It depends on what's making it run slowly. (Flat tires will make a car run really slow, but changing the tires won't make the car run faster if the problem was that it was out of gas. There's no universal "make my computer run faster" thingie.) first find out what's running slowly - internet? Loading files from disk? Running programs once they're loaded into memory? Something else? Then post a question asking how to fix that problem. Cleaning the disk drive won't do anything if the problem is not enough RAM.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

    Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

    There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.

    http://www.make-pc-fast.com/

    You can download and scan your computer for free.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Have you ever defragged your computer?

    Hard drive fragmentation will severely affect the speed and reliability of your computer. Fragmentation is often the cause of system slows, malfunctions such as system hangs, program errors or a complete crash.

    So defrag your hard drive, better yet, install an automatic defrag like Diskeeper, you can download free trialware at www.diskeeper.com.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I have had many, many requests for a fix for slow computers, and thus I've put together a nice little page on the internet with different FREE ways you can make your computer faster. All of them are guaranteed to work, and none of them will harm your computer in any way. You can check out my page here:

    http://www.squidoo.com/10easysteps

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I suggest you to use popular internet security and update it for protect your PC from bad code's . Si after that you can use disk Difragmenter for make your hard disk faster for reading and writing data on it. And it's a good way to use some tune up program like Ace Utilities for solving your register bugs and make your PC faster.

    Be sure these things help you to solve your problem.

    If you have some problem tell me.

    Best regards.

    Source(s): My major is Computer software / So I know what is true
  • 1 decade ago

    um try going to controll pannel click classic view at top left corner go to system advanced and go to something about virtual memory or memory and increase the minnumum and maximum alot if u want it to go realy fast try clicking the option for proformance and it will take all the eye candy off vista and let it run smoother without windows aero window manager

  • 1 decade ago

    I think your computer is affected by viruses,so use a good virus guard like AVAST and clean the viruses...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Check http://www.pcoptimizerprodownload.com/

    With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.

    It will help improve your system performance.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yo u can buy a CD with extra ram(memory) or u can buy a new memory hard drive.

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