Steps To Improve The Speed Of Your Computer

Twenty steps to improving the speed your computer starts up and runs.

Step One: clean up the hard drive by emptying the recycle bin, removing temporary files and getting rid of programs, video clips, photos and large files.

Step Two: use the Disk Defragmenter utility including the registry and pagefiles.

Step Three: Delay the startup time of programs that may be causing your computer to boot up slower.

Step Four: Use the MSCONFIG utility to disable programs that automatically startup.

Step Five: Optimize the page file size.

Step Six: Turn off indexing services.

Step Seven: Change Performance and visual effects settings to optimal performance.

Step Eight: Clean the system registry eliminating broken shortcuts.

Step Nine: install and keep up to date a good anti-adware, spyware and virus detection and removal program.

Step Ten: Remove pre-installed programs that you do not use.

Step Eleven: disable Windows, settings, services and programs that are unnecessarily slowing down your PC.

Step Twelve: for Vista machines disable the User Account Control.

Step Thirteen: Tweak mouse settings allowing you to copy, paste, navigate and scroll faster.

Step Fourteen: remove unused and temporary files using CCleaner or another utility.

Step Fifteen: Delete temporary internet files, cookies and browsing history.

Step Sixteen: Empty the prefetch folder.

Step Seventeen: For XP machines disable the boot logo.

Step Eighteen: Remove unneeded fonts.

Step Nineteen: free up RAM by unloading DLLs from memory.

Step Twenty: for better performance run DOS software in separate memory space.

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