How To: Speed Up Your Computer!

Hi, today I will be showing you how to speed up your computer to its full power! Before I begin, there is one thing I will be telling you. If you have an old compute with 32MB RAM, it won't speed up to be like a 32GB RAM PC. If that is the case, you will have to buy a new computer. I am also only covering Windows OS, not Mac OS X. Let's get started! First thing to do, is to Defrag your system with the included Disk Defragment Tool. Click the start button, then all programs, then hit accessories, find system tools and finally hit Disk Defragmenter. if you have a USB Drive plugged in, it will also list it. Remember, the main drive is always C:, unless you changed it. If you click Analyze, it will tell you information about how much space will be created and details etc. Click the main hard drive, then click defragment. Defragmenting can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. If you haven't done it in a long time, be prepared to wait a really long time. My computer only takes 15 minutes, because I do it every month. It is a great way to speed up your computer and at the same time free up space on the hard disk. Let's move on to the second way of speeding up a computer. This one might not help everyone, if you like the theme of XP. Right click 'My Computer' and hit properties. Find the advanced tab and click it. Then click settings under the performance text. You can adjust the visual effects that XP uses by using the 3 options listed. If you click let windows choose for me, it will enable all the effects and will slow your computer down. The same thing goes for the 2nd option, Adjust for best appearance. The third option is the one we want, Adjust for best performance, this takes away all the effects and boosts your computer's speed by a bit. You can also pick the visual effects you want by just ticking the check box, that is located to the left of the visual effect description. Click the adjust for best performance circle and hit OK. Then click the Apply button. If your desktop icons have a wierd box around the name of the icons, you can fix that. Go back to the Visual Effects window and scroll down through the list of the effects. Find the one that says, 'Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop'. Tick the box beside it and hit OK, then apply again. That should fix the icon label problem, if it persists, click the best appearance circle to revert it back. If that problem keeps happening, you will have to manually figure out, what effect keeps the desktop icon's label normal. The next way of speeding up your computer is a mini-faster version of the oversized Disk Defragmenter. This tool is handy and quick. Click Start, all programs, accessories, system tools and hit Disk Cleanup. When you click it, it will automatically start scanning for useless files that can be deleted to speed up your computer. After it is done scanning, it will list many areas from which it can clean. The default ticked boxes are fine, so just click OK. It will start removing all of the junk files and when it's done it will automatically exit. The next way, I do it every week, because I install and uninstall a lot of programs. This way involves a Registry Cleaner software. The best one I've found, is Eusing Registry Cleaner. You can find their site at, http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm. After you have installed the program and open it, a registration window will open. Registration is completely optional and is of no use to the user. To skip registration, click the skip button. Now, to begin scanning for registry errors, click scan for registry issue under the Tasks bar on the left. It will scan the main areas of the hard disk in which the registry errors usually occur. Registry errors are usually created when you uninstall a program, it leaves some of its registry behind on the user's hard drive. If you wish to stop scanning, hit the stop button. The registry errors it did find before you clicked stop will show up and can be repaired. Do not uncheck any of the boxes unless you want to keep the registry. Click the repair registry issue button on the left bar. It will tell you how many errors it repaired and that if you keep scanning, it will never show zero errors. Those are my ways of speeding up a computer, they work well for me and should work well for you too. If you are looking to completely reformat again, do use Windows XP Gamer's Edition. This version of XP is hacked, but is very fast compared to the original Home Edition or Professional Edition. I can't tell you where to get this version but I will just say one site; Paulpbaker.com. If your computer does not seem to get any faster, no matter what you do. You will, I am afraid, have to buy a new computer. I've used only the old Mac Computer, and do not know if the new Macs are fast. They say on the Apple website, that they squeeze every bit of performance out of the Intel processor, but who knows. They could be running average speed. The old Macs are slow, so don't count on buying a used Mac that is fat. I hope you enjoyed this article, and thanks for reading!