How to increase PC performance?

4 thoughts on “How to increase PC performance?”

1. bermuda890 says:

   October 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   You will need more RAM or just downgrade to XP. Vista needs at least 1 GB = 1024 MB which is double what you have right now. It is recommended that for Vista you have 2 GB.

   Download CCleaner it is free and it does a great job of cleaning up your computer it is free. Just download and install. After it is done, defrag your hard drive too, this will speed up your computer.

   By the way, despite what people say, Norton Antivirus is crap. All it does is slow down your computer.

   http://www.ccleaner.com/

2. TC 422 says:

   October 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   First, get rid of Norton. Second, try CCleaner for a registry cleaner, I have it and it works well and it’s free. As for speed, you have 2 options-
   1. Upgrade your parts like RAM, and CPU
   2. Overclock your parts, like RAM and CPU

3. Mr. S says:

   October 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   Only things I could tell you is to add more RAM. (Random Access Memory) to your PC. Vista is a RAM HOG.. so yeah. And also, Norton Internet Security is not good. I removed it from my PC today and AVG found a Worm in my PC that Norton MISSED. (No worries, AVG got rid of it). So that’s my advice. If you need anymore help, my Yahoo ID is mr_stitchy2001 if I cannot answer your questions…I will sure find out. Thanks!

4. 16k-zx81 says:

   October 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   best thing you can do is upgrade to 2gb ram, if your machine will allow it (is dependent on motherboard). Alternately, moving to XP will give you a big boost in responsiveness.

   Norton is a big resource hog, and changing to a system like nod32 will allow your machine to work more quickly because of the reduced cpu/ram load from what norton requires.

   Vista can be tweaked to work more quickly. There’s a lot you can do and too much information here but if you google "vista speed tweaks" then that should get you started. If you follow this process, make sure you set system restore points as you go, so that if you get something wrong you can roll back to settings that worked.

   Other basic maintenance elements also apply, such as
   regular defragment
   regular chkdsk
   make sure always have 20% disk free space on primary drive
   uninstall any software you dont use
   regularly run tune-up like http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html
   edit your startups
   kill off any unnecessary processes in system tray

   If you want to get really tricky you can also edit services using services.msc. I would not advise doing this unless you have done plenty of reading on what the services do and what the consequences of altering their startup parameters are likely to be.

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