In this article I will show you 3 effective ways to speed up your PC or laptop without spending a dime in hardware upgrades! So if you are thinking in spending big buck in brand new hardware equipments for your current machine in hope that it will speed up its performance do not do it before reading this article! Save you hard cash and avoid disappointment! That's right! Do not rush in buying new hardware; upgrades can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars! Plus they definitely won't fix your computer slowdown problems, as you will see later in this article.
I believe everybody should know why computers tend to slowdown over time; therefore I will start this article by answering the below question: Why my computer is slowing down? Your PC or laptop is slowing down because of you! Let me explain: You see every time you install new software, uninstall old software, change the background image, download music, etc.
All of these cause drastic changes on your machines hardware components, mainly: hard drive, memory RAM and processor.
But isn't that what machines are meant for? To install new software and stuff? True...
however these changes consume a lot of processor power, memory RAM and of course Hard Disk space.
So what is the solution? To buy new Hardware?! And spend hundreds on upgrades?! Definitely not! However installing new hardware equipment and upgrading your current Hard Drive, Processor and memory RAM will provide you temporarily boost of speed and performance.
Which is fine, however very expensive! Keep in mind that after some time you will have to upgrade again and again.
Computer slowdown is investable! Unless you do the following 3 things: #1 Perform a disk cleanup: by doing this you will free some of your current Hard Drive space.
A disk cleanup will remove all the unnecessary files and folders that are cluttering your Hard Drive.
These can be: temporarily internet cache files, recycle bin and even files that have not been used for long period of time.
#2 Disk Defrag: perform a disk defrag, what this will do is that it will organise your Hard Drive files and folders like a library.
This will make far easier for your computer to locate and open these files upon user request.
By performing a disk defrag you will save and free some of your current memory RAM.
#3 Registry Cleanup: you should always keep and maintain your system registry clean, the system registry is the computers heart.
It stores every single information of your machine components, this includes hardware and software.
Every time you start your computer and every alteration you done afterwards gets recorded and stored in the system registry.
Every time you install new software or even change your background image, all of these tasks are being recorded and stored on the system registry.
So you see over time the system registry get cluttered with these useless data and this is what causes slowdowns! As I said it is inevitable! No matter how much money you through away on upgrades you will never get the maximum performance of your machine unless you keep and maintain you system registry clean! How to I clean and maintain my registry? There are hundreds of Registry Cleaner softwares out there, these sort of softwares will seek and remove every single useless data that is causes the system slowdowns, plus they will automatically maintain the registry while you are busy doing other stuff.