how do i fix a slow computer?

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1. Dfd says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   You should scan your computer to find if there are missing, outdated, or corrupted drivers.If your computer is working on outdated drivers, it is highly exposed to the risks of many driver errors. Worse, your computer could crash and shut down permanently. Drivers are vital to a computer system. Without the right drivers, it is going to be impossible to make any device run. However, you don’t need just drivers. You need new and current drivers to make sure that your system would work as designed. The most serious problems that they encounter as they use their computer may be resolved by a simple driver update. The best way to update all of your drivers is to use driver updating software. I should like to commend Driver Robot http://best-way-to-improve-pc-performance.com to you.

2. Hi says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   You can use a registry cleaner to clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".
   Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you’ve installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it’s Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!
   There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.
   http://www.fix-system.com
   You can download and scan your computer for free.

3. Happy 2 Help. says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   Follow these steps and you’ll have your computer purring like a vintage Porsche (or whatever your dream car of choice is). And the best part? Maintaining your computer is a lot less messy than an automobile. You don’t even have to roll up your sleeves.

   Clean up disk errors (Run once a week)

   Whenever a program crashes, or you experience some power outage, your computer may create errors on your computer’s hard disk. Over time, the errors can slow your computer. Luckily, the Windows operating system includes a Disk Check program to check and clean any errors on your computer and keep it running smoothly.

   Remove temporary files (Run once a week)
   Your computer can pick up and store temporary files when you’re looking at Web pages and even when you’re working on files in programs, such as Microsoft Word. Over time, these files will slow your computer’s performance. You can use the Windows Disk Cleanup screen to rid your computer of these deadbeat files.

   Rearrange your data (Run once a month)
   Don’t be shocked, but your computer can get sloppy. Your computer often breaks files side by side to increase the speed of access and retrieval. However, as files are updated, your computer saves these updates on the largest space available on the hard drive, often found far away from the other adjacent sectors of the file.

   Make Internet Explorer run faster
   The Web is a sparkling achievement of modern society. It’s everywhere—from the home to the classroom. We use it to communicate, to work, to play—even to waste time when there’s nothing else to do.

   Automate Microsoft Update (Configure once)
   Microsoft works constantly to release updates to Windows and other Microsoft products, including Office. At Microsoft Update, you can find and install all these updates—not just the critical ones. Often, these updates will improve your computer’s performance.

   Install antivirus and antispyware programs
   Computer viruses and spyware (hidden software that gathers information about you without your knowledge or consent when you’re using a computer) both reduce system performance. Computer viruses can not only reduce performance, but they can also destroy data. Any computer that accesses the Internet should have antivirus and antispyware programs installed.

4. Aff says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   The Windows Registry is the master control center for your operating system and applications it runs. Corruption or overload registry issues can cause all sorts of pc performance problems, including poor application startup times, slow Windows start-up, extremely slow shut down, slow internet surfing,inability to resume from computer sleep and more.Cleaning,compacting, and optimizing your Windows registry can go a long way to dramatically speeding up your computer’s performance, start-up and shutdown speed.
   Recommended: Run a Registry Scan http://make-a-computer-run-better.com Now to Detect Errors and Improve your PC’s speed instantly!

5. Colanth says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   To fix something, you first have to determine what’s broken. If you don’t know that much about computers, take the computer to a good repair shop (not a retail store with a repair "squad").

   I make a lot of money fixing computers that were "fixed" by people who were following instructions they got on Yahoo Answers.

6. john says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   I going to take a stab in the dark and say you have dial up internet such as Net-zero. The slow internet thing, the only way to fix that is to go to DSL or Cable. As for the actual computer. If you can, go to http://www.majorgeeks.com, select drive cleaners, and click CCleaner. Download and install that. Run it and alot of junk you don’t need such as cookies and browser history are removed. After that, If you don’t already have it, Download and install AVG. AVG anti-virus free along with a-squared free. These can be found at http://www.download.com. Install and run these one at a time deleting what comes up and you should be ok. It wouldn’t hurt to run Disk Defragmenter. Go to start, all programs, Accesories, System tools and click it. all this will take you about a day and a half. Once it’s done, you’ll be fastER. How fast, I cant say but it should be better. If all else fails, Re-install Windows.

7. Nick M says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   What Rawr said will most likely not work. I have never had success with any of the free or big time commercial anti virus programs (Norton). The best thing for you to do is buy a new computer tower. Either a new one from walmart or a good refurbished, like new pc on ebay.

8. Timmy says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   You may want to scan your computer for viruses; those can cause a lot of the problems you are describing.
   If you need a free virus scanner you could try:
   http://www.lavasoft.com/

   Another contributing factor could be that the computer needs more RAM. Unfortunately this isn’t free and if you have a computer that requires DDR1 instead of DDR2 it could be expensive.

   You could check the processes that run at start up, after installing programs you may have things running in the background that you don’t want.
   Try this to check what is running at start up:
   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

   If none of these suggestions are working, then it would be in your best interest to look into buying a new computer.

9. Rawr says:

   January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

   The first thing you want to do is install and update malwarebytes and perform a scan.

   http://www.malwarebytes.org/

   Alternative: Spybot S & D

   http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

   After that download the free version of Avast! Antivirus and install it.

   http://www.avast.com/

   It will ask if you want to schedule a boot time scan. Say yes and reboot.
   After that leave avast on your computer to protect you.

10. Jenny says:

    January 19, 2010 at 4:08 am

    Can you remember the last time you cleaned and optimized your registry? This is a frequent cause of your computer becoming slow. Like a car that needs to go to the mechanic for fine tuning, in order to maintain computer performance you need an occasional tune up yourself. The best way to do this is by downloading a registry cleaner. You can get my favorite at:

    http://www.registry-clean-up.net

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