How do you speed up an old computer?

12 thoughts on “How do you speed up an old computer?”

1. Best D says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   Check http://www.pc-optimizer-pro.com
   With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.
   It will help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades.

2. Jenny says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".
   Everytime 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 Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!
   There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.
   http://www.make-pc-fast.com/
   You can download and scan your computer for free.

3. july girl says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   Learn how to clean up your computer and speed up your computer here:
   <-http://speed-up-computer.remove-junk.com
   Good luck!

4. yankeegray_99 says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   well you didn’t give much info as to what hardware is in your computer i.e the cpu class, Pentium 4 etc, and how much ram memory you have. so all i can recommend at the moment is to shut off all the programs that are running in the back ground by start>run>msconfig.exe>start up. then turn off all programs you don’t need, which is basically anything that isn’t an anti virus.click apply,then reboot.after that run your a.v to check for viruses,and if it supports doing so,have it check for broken keys in the software. if you want a program that can do basically all of this for you, avanquest’s system suite is a good program that can do this,plus has a firewall/anti virus/spam scanner included

5. Tomasz Kalinowski says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   You could upgrade your computer’s hard drive by buying a bigger memory card. This will speed it up. Also, try and see if there are any virus on your computer. If so, you could probably delete them by going to command prompt and typing msconfig.

6. cy_is_azn says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   Update your computer, I updated mine by going to Microsoft website. (I don’t remember where though.)

   OR

   Buy the "System Mechanic." We bought one and helps our computer plus speeds it up a little.

   Goto:
   http://www.iolo.com/
   Read about it!

7. jsgetbusylgz says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   If you really don’t want to spend the money on getting a new computer, almost any dual core would probably be a great improvement, but I have one program called Tuneup Utilities. It has lots of programs in one to speed up your computer. There’s even a 1-Click Maintenance button that will check for all problems in one click. On all the computers that ive used it on it speeds them up every time. You can find it for download on http://www.tune-up.com . It may not be free, but it’s totally worth the price. Hope it helps!

8. Muhammad A says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   reformat br sure to backup
   now go to best buy or somthing and buy the 8gig ram ur computer will be yelling with speed and now u have to upgrade everything like video card to latest and ur motherboard to pci instead of agt if u have agt.
   and now upgrade ur Windows if its like 98 and 95 and melleniom and 2000 upgrade to xp
   or vista if u want to get latest technoligy but not all programs work good on it thats y i stick to xp and vista also uses alot of ram so its really like 4 gb ram wit vista
   PS if u buy a new video card u will need a new motherboard all u see theese days is pci cards not many agt’s and be sure to get atleast a dual motherboard that way u can hold more memory and ram more will fit this way
   also change fans they might not be strong enough for all the new things so also get a new fan

   All of these things will cost u about 600$
   i would rather u buying a new pc for like 500$ but its ur choise like always no one knows ur pc like u do
   All this info i gave is also usable for a high gaming PC this is what i did and now i can run the latest things like bf3 and call of duty 4
   so its ur choise
   i say stick wit the upgrading
   if u buy a new highly upgraded gaming pc its odd of being 500$ or even 600$ are like one in a million
   u can get upgradings online for cheaper than instantly buying from stores. but u have to wait for them
   but then again 3-10 is a good deal to save 200$

9. cellular says:

   September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

   you can either clean up your computer by deleting never been used program , cookies , spyware and viruses or use a recovery disc to bring back your computer to a stage that when you bought it.
   second thing you can do is upgrade your ram by replacing your old one.
   hope this will help.

10. kenboi_1990 says:

    September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

    Formatt it is the most easiest
    backup anything you need
    using the operating system disk delete partition then create new partition formatting it, then reinstall operating system

    if its still slow, new ram or chip (CPU)

11. myhand636 says:

    September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

    Well to speed up a computer, there’s really not much you can do..

    For updates, go to Windows Update. (update.windows.com)

    Sorry I couldn’t of been more help, but there is really no way to freely speed up a computer.

12. sweetwater says:

    September 23, 2009 at 6:35 am

    Adding memory might help, but that is just one component of the whole system, which is only as fast as the slowest element. So it may not necessarily make sense to make that investment.

    Programs and updates may be beneficial but dependent on the hardware you’ve got.

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