Tips & Tricks: To speeding up your computer

Computer is an amazing machine which helps us to solve many issues so speedily where a human being cannot imagine. However in due course almost all computers face a poor performance and slow speed issue due to different reasons. A PC repair or Speeding up a slow computer is not very difficult task if you apply some of the important points and steps. Some of the essential points and facts are below mentioned.

Verify the status of your hardware

In absence of a good and compatible hardware we cannot imagine the greatest speed and performance. All the attached hardware should be intact and compatible for the applications and OS you are running in the machine. If any of the hardware component is malfunctioning or incompatible you’ll encounter the slow computer issue. Verify if all the installed hardware work fine and are they compatible or not?

Increase RAM

RAM is the main memory for all the computers and in absence of sufficient RAM a computer cannot run with it maximum speed and performance. If you are running Windows 7 with just 1 GB of RAM you might encounter the speed and performance issue. Though the recommended RAM for Windows 7 is just 1GB however I would suggest using 2GB of RAM if you have Windows 7 installed in your computer.

Reduce Visual effects

Visual effects in all Windows OS do not contribute or do not have much importance except for look and feel. But they consume lot of CPU and other system resources. Lower down some visual effects and your will certainly experience some great difference in speed and performance of your computer.

Remove corrupt drivers

A slow computer issue can be experienced due to corrupt drivers in your system. Apart from slowing down the performance of the system a corrupt set of drivers can also create many other ill effects in your system such as BSOD, computer freezing and many more issues. Reinstalling is the best solution to avoid this problem.

Eliminate infectious items

Virus, spyware, Trojan, worm and many other kinds of infections can cause the slow computer and various other issues in your computer. This is one of the most prominent factors to make a computer run slow. A virus is capable to produce many other ill effects in your computer.

Use the updated and latest virus and other malware removal program to kill all types of infections from your computer.

Reduce Windows features

If you still experience the slow computer issue you can remove (temporary) some of the windows features such as you can disable windows search indexing services.