How to Speed Up Your Pc and Make Your Computer Like New for Free!

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You have to realize that when you first bought your computer it was nice and fast and it would start up really fast.  If you tried to do something like open a program or surf the Web it would do it quickly.  But a couple of years later you have noticed your PC really slow down and not function like it would before.  What has happened over years to cause this?

Well over the years since you purchased your computer, it has gone through it's normal updates and upgrades.  You have also been installing more hardware and software, like Microsoft Office applications, games, utilities to keep your computer clean, virus free and spyware free.  With each of these programs you now have more junk loading in the background from your startup folder when you first turn on your PC.  This is one of the reason why your PC is loading slowly.

All these years that you have been using your PC, surfing the Internet and installing programs on your computer, you create what are called temporary files and most likely you could have picked up some Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Now I will give you a couple of steps to simply clean your PC and to bring the speed and performance back, in other words "make it like new".  You can also check out Software.com and check out all the related articles there to help you further with your needs.

1. How to Uninstall any programs that are not being used or so that you can free up some disk space.  You have to go to the control panel and once in there you will then click on add/remove programs.  Which will then show you a list of programs that have been installed on your PC over the years.  You basically go and see what you don’t need or if they are trial versions you simply highlight and remove.

2. How is the program automatically loading in the background? There are two ways and I will explain them to you now.

a. Click on Start menu, then go to programs and then to the Startup Folder.  You will then see what’s being loaded when you start your computer and if it's not important then delete the items from loading. Most are not that important.  Once you delete them they will go in your Recycle Bin so if you restart you’re PC and you changed your mind about deleteing something, then you can restore that file back.

b. This step is harder and if you don’t know too much about PC’s then been aware.  Go to the Start Button and click on Run.  You will have to type msconfig and press enter.  From the tab area you choose the startup tab.  Now there will be a list of files in that tab you can dither uncheck the file to be on the safe side or if you know for sure you don’t need it then you simply uncheck the file and it won’t load.  If you are not sure about a file then you can research the file on the Internet and it will tell you what it does.

3. How to Download ATF Cleaner 3.0.02 it’s free you can go on the Internet and search for it.  You download the file and run it; you don’t have to install it because it is a simple but effective program.  Run the program and you will see a list of options you simply select all and clean.  Unless you want a certain topic not to be cleaned then you don’t check mark it.  This will increase the overall performance of the PC and especially surfing the Internet.

4. How to Download AntiVir Personal Classic Edition it is a free software and very effective in cleaning and picking up viruses on your PC.

5. How to Download SpyBot 1.6 it is free software.  You can get the file from SpyBot.com.  Install the software and follow the instructions to it very simple.  Once installed do the full update so that it can download all the new files for the program.  Then run a scan and it will pick any thing that should not be in your PC as far as files or things in your Registry that may slow your PC down.

6.  How Running Disk Defragmenter on your hard drive.  This will basically reorganize your PC and put your file from A-Z so that when you want something it doesn’t have to go looking for it and all the files will be together.  You go to Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools and Disk Defragmenter.  Click on analyze and then follow the instruction and run the defragment.  Now if you haven’t done this it will take a while for it to finish.  Make sure when doing this to have all your programs closed and you are not using your PC till it is done you can pause it but try and do it when you don’t need the PC.  When the program is finished for its first time run the program again as it will organize another set of files.

Well hope this has helped you in speeding up your PC and go ahead and make any comments or suggestion or help you need and if you need more info you can go to 104Inc for more info.

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