Why does my computer run so slow?

There are ways to improve computer speed and performance without having to upgrade your hardware. Very often the solution is software optimization. There are software suites that can thoroughly clean, defragment, and optimize your settings to fit your particular hardware configuration. Depending on how cluttered your computer is in the first place, you can experience up to 100% speed and performance gain. Good software to cleanup, tweak, and optimize your computer is Auslogics BoostSpeed.

To make your computer faster and stop it from freezing, do the following tasks:

A) Uninstall Programs:

Uninstall the programs that you never use. This will free-up your disk space and thereby make your computer run faster.

1. Click Start | Control Panel.

2. Click Program s| Uninstall a Program.

3. Select a program and click "Uninstall" button.

B) Defragment your Registry:

Registry defragmentation is an essential task required to be performed once a week. If you have not defragged your registry yet, start defragmenting it from now. You need to take help of an external registry defrag tool, such as, Reginout.

C) Reduce Hung Application TimeOut:

1. Click Start | Run.

2. Type RegEdit and press ENTER.

3. Navigate to the below registry hive:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

4. Double click the string named HungAppTimeout.

5. Reduce the default value.

6. Press ENTER.

D) Reduce Wait To Kill TimeOut:

1. Click Start | Run.

2. Type RegEdit and press ENTER.

3. Navigate to the below registry hive:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control

4. Double click the string named WaitToKillServiceTimeOut to modify its value.

5.Type a smaller value such as 1000, 1500 or 2000. It is based on your preference, need and requirements.

6. Press ENTER.

Have you scanned for Spyware? If no longer down load, replace and test with Spybot and Adaware. How lengthy on account that you ran a diskcleanup? Is your force unfastened from fragmentation? This sickness can sluggish matters down. Keep a verify on frag stages and in addition at the unfastened house.

Try and upgrade the RAM if you can. If you do that and it still doesn't work, then your computer probably has a virus. Take it to best buy and see if it's a virus.

Clean virus from your hard drive by using a virus gird.If then you see same problem reinstall your operating system. If then you see same problem change your RAM.

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